Benefits of the apprenticeship model of nursing education included (Select all that apply.)
a. a well-trained graduate nursing hospital staff.
b. opportunities for further education in nursing.
c. providing a skilled but inexpensive workforce.
d. providing working-class women employment.
e. reforms in the care of sick and injured individuals.
C, D, E
Nursing students provided the staffing for hospitals in exchange for their education.
Nursing gave working-class women employment alternatives to domestic or factory work.
The use of skilled, trained nurses decreased morbidity and mortality, and this benefit was evident in both civilian and military health care.
Graduate nurses were typically employed as private duty nurses and did not remain working in hospitals.
Further education for graduate nurses was rare; a postdiploma program was opened in 1899, but the first undergraduate college nursing program was not opened until 1909.
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