The mental health nurse is seeing patients recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder in an out-patient health clinic. Which historical figure should the nurse recognize as being instrumental in improving the care provided to patients
with mental disabilities?
1. Clara Barton.
2. Dorothea Dix.
3. Harriet Tubman.
4. Sojourner Truth.
Answer: 2
Explanation: 2. Dorothea Dix was a social reformer who did much to improve the conditions of people with mental illness in institutions throughout the nation. Clara Barton was instrumental in the establishment of the Red Cross of the United States of America. Harriet Tubman, a former slave who functioned as a nurse during the Civil War, is probably best known for her activities with the Underground Railroad in bringing approximately 300 former slaves to freedom in the north. Sojourner Truth was an African American who served during the Civil War and then for the Freedman's Relief Association during reconstruction.
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