The student of nursing history learns what information about the advent of nursing education?
a. Baccalaureate programs caught on quickly after being started.
b. Collegiate forces advocated for early university education.
c. Early programs were patterned after the Nightingale model.
d. Physicians were against using any trained nurse in hospitals.
C
The earliest nursing education occurred in hospital-based programs patterned after the Nightingale model of collegiate nursing education. However, anticollegiate forces prevailed, and the diploma process became the standard for nursing education. Baccalaureate programs did not catch on well until after World War II. Physicians recognized the value of a trained nursing staff.
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