Read this passage and answer the following question: Nursing, with its broad biopsychosocial framework for disease management, makes it an optimal venue for animal-assisted therapy practice. As clinicians, nurses are amenable to using nontraditional practices in an effort to heal and provide comfort for their patients. In addition, nursing research focuses on understanding the symptoms of acute and chronic illness, finding ways to prevent or delay chronic physical or emotional illness and finding overall approaches to achieve and maintain good physical and emotional health.

Choose the option that best illustrates the main idea of this passage.

Nursing research is focused on understanding physical chronic illness and how it can be prevented.

Nurses are forerunners in treating emotional stress by using non-traditional methods like animal-assisted therapy.

Nurses understand how emotional, mental, and physical health are connected and are open to trying non-traditional ways of treating stress.