Florence Nightingale classified sick nursing as:
A) caring for dying clients.
B) using clients' own reparative processes.
C) addressing community health problems.
D) caring for clients at risk of illness.
Ans: B
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Nightingale viewed sick nursing as helping ill clients use their own reparative processes to get well. This did not always involve clients who were dying.
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