A nurse had the opportunity to work with Mary Breckinridge. Which of the following would the nurse most likely have assisted with?
a. Establishing the Henry Street Settlement
b. Developing health programs geared to-ward improving the health care of the rural populations
c. Blazing a nursing trail through the Rock-ies, providing nursing care to miners and their families
d. Teaching birth control measures to large numbers of women in the South
ANS: B
Mary Breckinridge developed health programs geared toward improving the health care of the rural and often inaccessible populations in the Appalachian regions of southern Kentucky. Lillian Wald established the Henry Street Settlement.
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