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A nurse educator incorporates stress, power, authority, and personal space along with other concepts and considers these concepts essential knowledge for use by nurses. The educator is applying principles from which theorist into the curriculum?

1. Dorothea Orem
2. Imogene King
3. Jean Watson
4. Hildegard Peplau

ANSWER

Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: Orem’s theory focuses on self-care/self-care deficit and not applicable here.
Rationale 2: Imogene King’s theory of goal attainment is based on 15 concepts from nursing literature she selected as essential knowledge for use by nurses. These include self, role, perception, communication, interaction, transaction, growth and development, stress, time, personal space, organization, status, power, authority, and decision making.
Rationale 3: Jean Watson’s theory centers on caring interaction and not applicable here.
Rationale 4: Hildegard Peplau’s theory centers on the use of a therapeutic relationship between the nurse and client and not applicable here.