The Nightingale School of Nursing was the first school of nursing that:
a. admitted both female and male students
b. offered a nursing program at no cost to students
c. required a year of college studies before students were admitted
d. provided both theory-based knowledge and clinical skill building
D
The Nightingale Training School for Nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital in London recognized that there is a body of nursing knowledge distinct from medical knowledge. Among Nightingale's major contributions to nursing as it is practiced today are using a systematic method of client assessment, individualizing care on the basis of client needs and preferences, advocating confidentiality in client care, seeing nurses as client advocates, using a holistic framework for nursing and nursing education, identifying the necessity of a liberal education as the foundation of nursing practice, and pointing out the importance of the environment to the healing process by provided both theory-based knowledge and clinical skill building.
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