What are the four concepts that have historically been identified as the focus of nursing theory?
1. Assessment, goals, interventions, and evaluation.
2. Pain, anxiety, stress, and fatigue.
3. Disease, death, care, and cure.
4. Person, environment, health, and nursing.
Correct Answer: 4
The four concepts that are the focus of nursing theory are person, environment, health, and nursing. Assessment, goals, interventions, and evaluation are steps of the nursing process. Pain, anxiety, stress, fatigue, disease, death, care, and cure are all aspects of the care that nurses provide.
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