Lavinia Dock and Mary Adelaide Nutting were both American nursing leaders instrumental in improving the standards for nursing education. What was the most important contribution that the two provided the profession of nursing together?

A) Both were considered social activists and were instrumental in improving the standards of nursing education.
B) Both were considered to be two of the earliest nursing professors teaching at universities in the United States.
C) Helped to found the National League for Nursing (NLN) and the four volumes, History of Nursing.
D) Both were expert authors, and Mary Adelaide Nutting was the founder of the American Journal of Nursing in 1900.


Ans: C
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The most important contribution has the most impact that lasted the longest, and that was Lavinia Dock and Mary Adelaide Nutting helped to improve standards in nursing education by helping to found the National League of Nursing and wrote the history of nursing. Both were involved in founding the American Journal of Nursing. Although they were two of the first nursing professors, this contribution is not the most important contribution to the profession of nursing.

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