Nurses made many contributions to the care of Civil War soldiers. A nurse who understood this, would state which of the following?
a. "Nurses established a safe haven for sol-diers from the battlefield.".
b. "Nurses provided a clean environment with food and water.".
c. "Nurses began medication administration on the battlefield.".
d. "Nurses organized the men to care for other injured soldiers.".
B
During the Civil War, nurses began to see the benefit of prevention, nutrition, and clean envi-ronments for the injured soldiers. Nurses who had some formal training were recognized as being major contributors to the relative success of hospital treatments. It was in this era that the value of primary prevention, or the prevention of the occurrence of disease by measures such as immunization and the provision of a pure water supply, became understood. Volunteer nurses, mostly women, served in hospitals caring for those wounded soldiers fortunate enough to have survived the trip from the battlefield. Their patients were nursed in a clean environment and were provided with adequate nutrition. Although the other options were important to patients' well-being, the nurses noticed that patients greatly improved with cleanliness, nutrition, and a clean water supply.
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