After graduating from nursing school, the graduate takes a licensure examination as the result of what nurse's contribution?
1.
Florence Nightingale
2.
Mary Adelaid Nutting
3.
Lavinia L. Dock
4.
Isabel Hampton Robb
ANS: 4
Isabel Hampton Robb fought for licensing examinations and registration to protect patients from incompetent nurses, in order to raise the standard of the profession.
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