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What Crimean War volunteer is considered the mother of nursing?

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Lady Of The Lamp
Retry Correct Incorrect As the National Women’s History Museum outlined, Florence Nightingale’s nursing acumen was well-known in England by the time the Crimean War broke out. And her work in giving soldiers more sanitary recovery conditions and making them feel cared for made one field hospital’s death rate plummet from 40% to just 2%.
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What Crimean War volunteer is considered the mother of nursing?

  • Mary Eliza Mahoney
  • Florence Nightingale
  • Mary Breckinridge
  • Dorothea Dix
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