Place the role of nurses in chronological order from the Civil War to World War II. Put a comma and space between each answer choice (for example: a, b, c, d)
a. Nurses who served during war were given rank as officers.
b. No nurses were formally trained.
c. Public health nursing and occupational nursing were begun.
d. The nurse anesthetist was introduced.
ANS:
b, c, d, a
It was not until 1860 that Nightingale established the first nursing school in England. Nurses were not formally trained until Nightingale's time. In the early 1900s, before World War I, Lillian Wald instituted public health nursing and occupational nursing. In 1914, with the beginning of World War I, the nurse anesthetist joined the surgical team. Nurses were seen as a valuable part of the military and attained the ranks of officers in the Army and the Navy for their participation in World War II.
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