QUESTION A nurse enters a client’s room and introduces herself as the nurse who will be taking care of him today. The client discusses with the nurse the fact that he has been sick to his stomach for the last several hours. After discussing the client’s nausea, the nurse and the client decide that medication […]
QUESTION A nurse manager has been asked to relate a particular theory to the care given on her unit. The nurse manager states, “I’m not sure we utilize a single model but a variety of many models.” What is the weakness that this nurse manager verbalizes with models utilized in nursing practice? A) Agreement exists […]
QUESTION Which of the following models suggests that the new nurse utilizes steps of the nursing process in order and that experienced nurses use a more engaged and practical reasoning approach to clinical judgment, bypassing some steps of the nursing process? A) Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations Model B) Paterson and Zderad’s Humanistic Theory C) Tanner’s Model […]
QUESTION Which of the following theorists stresses that health and illness are not separate states, good or bad, or in a linear relationship? A) Susan Leddy B) Martha Rogers C) Callista Roy D) Rosemarie Parse ANSWER: C
QUESTION A community is in need of a program that looks at the development of goals to improve single mothers’ quality of life. A focus group has been developed involving 20 single mothers. A nurse working in the community is leading the focus group and has asked for input on setting the goals for the […]
QUESTION A client in the medical-surgical unit of a hospital asks the nurse how long it will take to psychologically feel well after her hysterectomy. The nurse replies that in some studies in the nursing literature women feel their best 6 to 8 weeks postoperatively. Which of the following types of nursing practice has the […]
QUESTION Which of the following theorists assumes that the human being constructs his or her own meaning and whose emphasis is on the meaning and values that influencing a human being’s active choices of behavior? A) Rosemarie Parse B) Martha Rogers C) Callista Roy D) Susan Leddy ANSWER: A
QUESTION A nurse utilizing a theory to base practice engages the client in definitions of terms such as the theory of healthiness, the theory of participation, and the theory of energetic patterning. Which of the following theorists include the assumptions of the three theories above? A) Margaret Newman B) Susan Leddy C) Callista Roy D) […]
QUESTION Which of the following models uses the growth model of change as the underlying theoretical framework? A) Adaption Model B) Health Care System Model C) Self-Care Deficit Theory D) Theory of Goal Attainment ANSWER: C
QUESTION A client’s regulatory systems operates by way of compensation, and the nurse who uses this theoretical framework recognizes that any change in the internal environment automatically initiates a response to minimize or counteract the change. What theoretical framework is this nurse using in this clinical situation? A) Adaptation framework B) Systems framework C) Complexity […]