What statement describes Florence Nightingale's beliefs about nursing?
1.
Practicing nurses should be licensed.
2.
Promotion of good health and treating the ill are nursing priorities.
3.
Nurses could simultaneously have a career and a marriage.
4.
Organisms cause infection.
ANS: 2
One of Florence Nightingale's strongest beliefs was that promoting good health and treating the ill were nursing priorities. Throughout her career, Nightingale implemented changes in the nursing practice to enhance the health of all who were ill.
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