The nurse realizes that the Nightingale Training School of Nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital in London was:
a. the first school of nursing in the West.
b. the first nursing school to provide both theory-based knowledge and clinical skill building.
c. the first school of nursing to accept women.
d. established to provide nurses to fight in the Crimean War.
ANS: B
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