Nursing students have been assigned to develop their own theory of nursing. What should they include in their theory, often referred to as the metaparadigm for nursing?
1. Society, medicine, nursing, and biology
2. Patient, facility, health, and nursing
3. Organization, discipline, nursing, and client
4. Client, environment, health, and nursing
Correct Answer: 4
Rationale: These options do not include the "pattern" associated with the four concepts that comprise a metaparadigm.
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