QUESTION What are the purposes of scientific research? (Select all that apply.) 1. Description 2. Review 3. Exploration 4. Explanation 5. Prediction ANSWER: Correct Answer: 1, 3, 4, 5 The purposes of scientific research are description, exploration, explanation, and prediction and control. Review is not one of these purposes as listed in the text.
QUESTION The nurse says she knows a particular fact is true because “God says it is true.” Which of Kneller’s types of knowing is this nurse describing? 1. Rational 2. Empirical 3. Intuitive 4. Revealed ANSWER: Correct Answer: 4 Kneller’s framework describes five kinds of knowledge: (1) revealed knowledge that is disclosed by God; […]
QUESTION The nurse receives the report for a client recovering from a repair of a fractured hip, who is being transferred to the orthopedic care area. The following information was obtained in the telephone report: Report received 14:00 hours: 76-year-old female; ORIF of right hip caused by falling in the home; receiving Morphine sulfate 2 […]
QUESTION The psychiatric nurse’s practice is based on Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations Model. The nurse has developed a relationship with a client in which the client has assumed the power. How would Peplau identify this phase of the relationship? 1. Orientation 2. Identification 3. Exploitation 4. Resolution ANSWER: Correct Answer: 3 Peplau’s model identifies the […]
QUESTION How can power be defined? 1. Position within an organization 2. Control over events 3. Authority to act 4. Potential to influence events ANSWER: Correct Answer: 4 One definition of power that is discussed in the textbook is “power is the potential capacity to influence events, cause change, initiate action, and control outcomes.” […]
QUESTION Why do most nursing theories reflect such strong influence from other disciplines such as sociology? 1. Those disciplines are more professional than nursing. 2. The theorists who developed nursing theories were often doing graduate work in those disciplines, not nursing. 3. Nursing theories were developed by non-nurses. 4. Nursing is not an independent entity, […]
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. […]
