This foundational body of work was considered the precursor or historical antecedent to the nursing as caring theory is
A. Roach's The Human Act of Caring.
B. Paterson and Zderad's theory of humanistic nursing.
C. Mayeroff's work On Caring.
D. Florida Atlantic University's curriculum development.
ANS: B
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