Which of these factors set the stage for nursing reforms that led to the establishment of the Nightingale Training School of Nurses in 1860?
a. public outcry over the limited resources available to the many people who were sick and indigent
b. religious influence in surrounding countries
c. social conditions and the need for nurses
d. the proliferation of factories and the deteriorating health of laborers
C
Florence Nightingale established the Nightingale Training School for Nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital in London and recognizing 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.
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