The first recorded school of nursing was organized to educate deaconesses to care for the sick. It was established in 1836 in Kaiserwerth, Germany, by:
a. Pastor Fliedner c. Florence Nightingale
b. Father Moreau d. Dorothea Dix
A
Theodore Fliedner, a pastor in Kaiserwerth, Germany, in 1836, revived the Lutheran Order of Deaconesses to care for the sick in a hospital he founded. These deaconesses became famous because they were the only ones formally educated in nursing.
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A) Feeling responsible. B) Feeling irritable. C) Feeling disoriented. D) Feeling numb.
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