Which of the following did Lillian Wald help establish?
a. Child employment centers with shortened work days
b. Daycare centers for preschool-aged children
c. Nurseries for infants of working mothers
d. School health nursing for school-aged children
ANS: D
Wald convinced the New York City Health Commissioner to put a public health nurse into a school. The experiment was so successful that schools adopted nursing on a widespread basis, thereby creating the field of school health nursing. Child employment centers, daycare centers, and nurseries for working mothers were not created by Wald.
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