Deck 12: Theories Focused on Interpersonal Relationships

Question 1

Which statement best describes the impacts of the psychiatric care movement and psychotropic drug development during the 1960s and 1970s on the nursing theory?

A) They gave rise to modern and postmodern theories of nursing.
B) They scientifically disproved the majority of theories based on Freud's work.
C) They gave rise to nursing theories that focused on interpersonal communication.
D) They created a niche for Peplau's theory about the nurse-patient relationship.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which action would most likely occur during the preorientation phase of Peplau's theory?

A) The nurse and the patient become acquainted with one another and begin building rapport.
B) The nurse identifies the various resources available to the patient and teaches him or her how to use them.
C) The nurse and patient develop a plan of care and engage in formal contracting regarding that plan.
D) The nurse would confront his or her own thoughts, feelings, and preconceptions about the patient and the disorder.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which statement would an adherent of Orlando's nursing process theory most likely make?

A) "Patients and nurses develop relationships that have a clear, time-sensitive endpoint."
B) "Patient's individual needs should always come before those of the health care organization."
C) "Patient wholeness exists on a continuum of being ill and being well that must be accepted and adapted to."
D) "Patients and their families should be taught how to cope with illness and understand its meaning."

Answer 3

B

Question 4

According to Travelbee's human-to-human relationship model, what is the basic goal of nursing?

A) Caring
B) Quality of life
C) Defining nurse-patient relationships
D) Sympathy

Question 5

According to Paterson and Zderad, why is nursing a call and response relationship?

A) Nursing theories call for nursing practice to change and the discipline responds by reforming educational standards.
B) Nurses call for revisions of theory reflective of their experience and theorists respond with new theoretical explanations.
C) Patients call for care with the expectation that unmet needs will be satisfied and nurses respond with intention of providing that care.
D) Health care systems call for more efficient nursing care that is less expensive and nurses respond by turning back to older theories of care.

Question 6

Which nursing theorist is credited with the idea that curing is the domain of medicine and caring is the domain of nursing?

A) Hildegard Peplau
B) Jean Watson
C) Margaret Newman
D) Joyce Travelbee

Question 7

Which statement best describes the relationship between disease states and non-disease states according to Newman's theory of health as expanding consciousness?

A) They are in opposing forces within an individual.
B) They are opposite ends of the individual healthcare spectrum.
C) They are two halves of a single whole that do not diminish one another.
D) They are different ways of understanding the reality of individual health.

Question 8

Which non-nursing theory focuses on knowledge as the result of decision making rather than decision making based on knowledge.

A) Existentialism and phenomenology
B) Positive psychology
C) Interpersonal relations theory
D) Humanistic theory

Question 9

Which statement about transpersonal psychology is false?

A) It posits that mystical experiences help humanity reach its highest potential.
B) It is a religious or spiritual movement rather than an academic discipline.
C) It stems from psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and humanistic psychology.
D) It seeks to describe and integrate mysticism with modern psychological theory.

Question 10

Sullivan's theories, which formed the basis for much of Peplau's work, are associated with which non-nursing theory of relationships?

A) Humanistic theory
B) Positive psychology
C) Phenomenology
D) Interpersonal relations theory

Question 11

Which statement is not an element of a Recovery-Oriented Care System?

A) Actively avoiding risks of failure
B) Encouraging accurate portrayals of the illness
C) Focusing on strengths
D) Encouraging individuality