Ling Zhao is a student in the Clinical Nurse Leader master’s degree program in the School of Nursing. She is working

Ling Zhao is a student in the Clinical Nurse Leader master’s degree program in the School of Nursing. She is working on a Capstone paper that she is planning to publish with her adviser in a nursing journal. Prior to her enrollment in the program, Ling published a paper in 2019. For the study documented in this paper, Ling developed a survey instrument. For her Capstone project, she has used the same survey. Which of the following sentences from Ling’s method section of her Capstone paper follows the common conventions to avoid self-plagiarism and communicates most clearly to readers that the survey in the Capstone paper has been used before? 1. Study participants received a copy of a previously developed 45-item survey on how nurses perceived their stress levels working in labor and delivery units (Zhao et al., 2019). 2. Study participants received a copy of the 45-item survey on how nurses perceived their stress levels working in labor and delivery units. 3. Study participants received a copy of the 45-item survey on how nurses perceived their stress levels working in labor and delivery units (Zhao et al., 2019