Why were nurses so unprepared for public health nursing in the early twentieth century?
a. Community health nursing had not yet been created as a field.
b. No one would teach the nurses how to engage in public health activities.
c. Nightingale's textbook did not include content on public health nursing.
d. Nurses were educated in diploma schools, which focused on hospital nursing.
ANS: D
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