QUESTION What is the underlying theme of Virginia Henderson’s work? 1. Nurses move in stages from novice to expert in the field. 2. Nursing is best provided when culture is considered. 3. Control of the environment of healing is the most important aspect of nursing. 4. Nursing is independent from and interdependent with other health […]
QUESTION Which statement best reflects the essence of Madeleine Leininger’s work? 1. Caring and curing cannot exist independently of each other. 2. Persons of all cultures tend to expect similar interventions from nursing care providers. 3. Both differences and commonalities exist in the ways cultures practice caring. 4. Western cultures practice caring at a superior […]
QUESTION The nursing school’s curriculum is based on Orem’s self-care deficit theory of nursing. How would this curriculum describe nursing interventions designed for individuals who are unable to perform some (but not all) self-care activities? 1. Wholly compensatory 2. Partly compensatory 3. Supportive 4. Educative ANSWER: Correct Answer: 2 Orem postulates that nursing systems […]
QUESTION The nurse who bases practice on the theory of unitary human beings will focus on which set of concepts? 1. Caring factors, transpersonal caring relationships, and caring moments/situations. 2. Regulator, cognator, stimuli, and adaptation. 3. Energy fields, universe of open systems, pattern, and pandimensionality. 4. Self-care deficit, self-care agency, and therapeutic self-care demand. […]
QUESTION A hospital’s nursing assessment form reflects first-level and second-level assessment. From this information, the nurse seeking employment at this facility determines that nursing service follows which theorist? 1. Orem 2. Roy 3. Benner 4. Leininger ANSWER: Correct Answer: 2 Roy’s Adaptation Model states that assessment involves two levels. First-level assessment includes collecting data […]
QUESTION The nurse reviewing medical records finds that nurses working in a particular hospital state nursing diagnosis in terms of the client’s limitations to maintaining self-care. The record reviewer determines that this nursing service follows which theorist? 1. Orem 2. Roy 3. Benner 4. Leininger ANSWER: Correct Answer: 1 Orem’s work is the self-care […]
QUESTION How is nursing research related to nursing conceptual models? 1. There is little relationship; researchers choose subjects based on need or interest. 2. These models drive nursing research and provide a way to organize findings. 3. Nursing research has proved that most conceptual models are false. 4. Nursing research can be undertaken only if […]
QUESTION While planning care, the nurse works with the client and chooses a wholly compensatory nursing system to help the client achieve an optimal level of self-care. What is true about this situation? 1. Most nursing theorists support a different form of planning. 2. Nursing theories do not lend themselves to the action of planning […]
QUESTION The nurse’s practice is based upon the theory of Jean Watson. What is the primary theme of this theory? 1. Caring 2. Cultural care 3. Goal attainment 4. Environment ANSWER: Correct Answer: 1 Jean Watson’s theory is the theory of human caring. Leininger’s theory concerns transcultural nursing. King’s theory is the goal-attainment theory. […]
QUESTION The nursing instructor is preparing information to present to students on the development of nursing knowledge. In which order should the instructor review this information? 1. Theory 2. Concept 3. Paradigm 4. Conceptual model 5. Conceptual framework ANSWER: Correct Answer: 2, 5, 4, 1, 3 Concepts, the building blocks of theory, are abstract […]
