Which statement is true about Florence Nightingale as a nursing theorist?
a. She believed that formal education was not needed for nurses.
b. She developed principles of nursing that fit the modern definition of a theory.
c. She considered nursing to be a calling.
d. She stressed the importance of caring for the ill person rather than caring for the illness.
D
Nightingale did not develop a theory of nursing but rather provided the profession with the philosophical basis from which other theories have emerged and developed. She stressed the importance of caring for the ill person rather than caring for the illness. The person was a passive recipient of care and nursing's primary focus was on the manipulation of the person's environment to maintain or achieve a state of health.
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