A group of nurses is developing a poster presentation titled "Nursing Care Delivery Through the Ages" for the hospital's annual Nurses' Day celebration. What form of nursing care delivery should they depict as occurring prior to 1930?
1. Team nursing
2. Functional nursing
3. Total patient care
4. Primary care
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Rationale 1: Team nursing evolved in the middle to late 1940s.
Rationale 2: Functional nursing grew out of the nursing shortage caused by World War II.
Rationale 3: The original model of nursing care delivery was total patient care or the case method. During the 1920s, total patient care was the typical delivery system, with much RN care being provided in the home.
Rationale 4: Primary nursing was conceptualized and implemented during the late 1960s.
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