Under whose leadership was psychiatric nursing included in the training of general nurses in the 20th century?
a. Dorothea Dix
b. Effie Taylor
c. Edward Cowles
d. Hildegard Peplau
B
Effie Taylor, the nursing director of the Phipps Clinic at Johns Hopkins was the first director to include psychiatric nursing practice into a nursing school's curricula. All students were trained in the care of people who were mentally ill.
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