FUNDAMENTAL
CONCEPTS AND
SKILLS FOR
NURSING 6TH
EDITION
WILLIAMS-ALL
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Chapter 01: Nursing and the Health Care System
Williams: deWit's Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, 5th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Florence Nightingale’s contributions to nursing practice and education:
a. are historically important but have no validity for nursing today.
b. were neither recognized nor appreciated in her own time.
c. were a major factor in reducing the death rate in the Crimean War.
d. were limited only to the care of severe traumatic wounds.
ANS: C
By improving sanitation, nutrition ventilation, and handwashing techniques,
Florence Nightingale’s nurses dramatically reduced the death rate from injuries in
the Crimean War.
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