The nurse working in mental health nursing honors what historical nurse for working to improve care of the mentally ill?
1.
Clara Barton
2.
Florence Nightingale
3.
Dorothea Dix
4.
Lillian D. Wald
ANS: 3
Dorothea Dix championed the development of psychiatric hospitals, and her work also brought about improvement for prisoners in jails.
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