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 […]
QUESTION A clinical instructor is assisting a student understand the nurse-client relationship. In which order should the instructor introduce the phases of this process? 1. Old needs and goals are put aside and new ones are adopted. 2. The client uses the available services on the basis of self-interest and needs. 3. The nurse assists […]
QUESTION A client comes into the community clinic for a wellness check-up. During the interview the nurse collects the following information: Reason for visit: “Just wanted to get a quick check-up. I know I’m not sick and will not get anything serious. And even if I do, what can be done? You people will tell […]
QUESTION The student nurses are preparing a poster to explain the evolution of nursing theories. In which chronological order should the students display information about these theorists? 1. Roy 2. King 3. Peplau 4. Rogers 5. Watson 6. Leininger ANSWER: Correct Answer: 3, 4, 2, 1, 5, 6 Hildegard Peplau, a psychiatric nurse, introduced […]
