Deck 2: Nursing Concepts and Health Promotion

Question 1

Nursing theorists organize nursing theory by:

A) accessing nursing definitions.
B) addressing nursing's metaparadigm concepts.
C) describing nursing's philosophy of health care.
D) providing standards of nursing practice.

Answer 1

addressing nursing's metaparadigm concepts.

Question 2

Which of the following theories would be most appropriate for the nurse to use when educating a 38-year-old diabetic Asian patient about her diet?

A) Adaptation Theory
B) Change Theory
C) Transcultural Theory
D) Values Theory

Answer 2

Transcultural Theory

Question 3

Which of the following theorists is most closely associated with Systems Theory?

A) Imogene King
B) Jean Watson
C) Martha Rogers
D) Virginia Henderson

Answer 3

Martha Rogers

Question 4

According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, before an individual can address safety and security needs, he or she must first satisfy their:

A) love and belonging needs.
B) physiological needs.
C) self-actualization needs.
D) self-esteem needs.

Question 5

Systems Theory proposes that change is:

A) health care directed.
B) impacted by a person's environment.
C) never haphazard.
D) dependent on the extent of individual behaviors.

Question 6

Nursing is considered a profession because it fits well with which of the following criteria commonly found in a profession?

A) Belongs to the medical discipline
B) Has established professional standards
C) Is accredited by the National League for Nursing
D) Is taught in community colleges and vocational schools

Question 7

The difference in health-promotion competencies between a nurse educated at the associate degree level and a baccalaureate prepared nurse (BSN) is that the BSN prepared nurse:

A) develops teaching plans concerning health promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health.
B) implements nursing care to promote health and manage acute and chronic health problems.
C) manages nursing care for a limited number of patients.
D) performs comprehensive assessments of patients relative to those factors impacting each patient's health status.

Question 8

Which of the following is a subcategory of Self-Esteem Needs according to Maslow?

A) Approval
B) Intimacy
C) Rules
D) Structure

Question 9

Which of the following nursing metaparadigm concepts is most closely associated with Florence Nightingale's Theory of Nursing?

A) Environment
B) Health
C) Nursing
D) Person

Question 10

A career ladder approach in nursing refers to:

A) associate or diploma educational pathways.
B) employment according to the educational level of the nurse.
C) nursing education at the university level.
D) transitioning of nursing from one educational level to the next.

Question 11

The American Nurses Association's Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice :

A) addresses the profession's concern with the quality and accountability of nursing.
B) describes both professional and vocational nursing standards of care.
C) describes the profession's non-negotiable ethical standards.
D) focuses on standards of care strictly applicable to clinical practice.

Question 12

Nursing's metaparadigm refers to:

A) a global definition of health care.
B) nursing theory.
C) standards that are applicable to the profession.
D) common concepts that describe nursing and are specific to the discipline.

Question 13

The four concepts that are addressed in nursing's metaparadigm are person, disease prevention, environment, and nursing.

Question 14

Which of the following would be most likely to engage in health-promotion nursing research?

A) Associate degree prepared nurse
B) Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing prepared nurse
C) Diploma prepared nurse
D) Doctorate in Nursing prepared nurse

Question 15

Health can be described in terms of the role of a person in society.

Question 16

Nursing's metaparadigm helps to critically unify and evaluate concepts that are characteristic of nursing.

Question 17

There is no current consensus on what constitutes health.

Question 18

Health promotion is an essential concept useful to nursing in:

A) defining nursing practice.
B) identifying nursing's need for change.
C) identifying professional assumptions.
D) providing theoretical frameworks.

Question 19

Which of the following theories is most closely related to Needs Theory?

A) Adaptation Theory
B) Motivation Theory
C) Systems Theory
D) Transcultural Theory

Question 20

The concept of health promotion is a new one to the nursing profession.

Question 23

Needs Theory may be used interchangeably with Adaptation Theory.

Question 30

General Systems Theory was originally described in 2002.