Deck 19: Anne Boykin and Savina Schoenhofers Nursing As Caring Theory

Question 1

Boykin and Schoenhofer assume that all persons are caring by virtue of their:

A) Living caring.
B) Humanness.
C) Dignity.
D) Social class.

Answer 1

Humanness.

Question 2

Boykin and Shoenhofer assert that the nursing ethic of caring supersedes all other values held by the nurse.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Caring as the intentional and authentic presence of the nurse with another who is recognized as living caring and growing in caring is defined by Boykin and Schoenhofer as:

A) Nursing situation.
B) Nursing response.
C) Call for nursing.
D) "Caring Between."

Answer 3

Nursing response.

Question 4

Nursing situations and medical case presentations are synonymous.

Question 5

In the theory of nursing as caring, caring in nursing is believed to be

A) Expected.
B) Intentional.
C) Assigned.
D) Mandated.

Question 6

Boykin and Schoenhofer describe caring as the means and instrument of nursing.

Question 7

Calls for nursing in the theory of nursing as caring are calls for nurturance of personhood through personal expressions of caring.

Question 8

The theory of nursing as caring directs nurses to respond to calls for nursing with:

A) The intention of following a predetermined plan of care.
B) Acknowledgment of patient needs.
C) Authentic presence.
D) All of the above

Question 9

In the theory of nursing as caring, the universal human call is:

A) Safety.
B) Personhood.
C) Pain management.
D) All of the above

Question 10

All of the following are one of the Roach's (1992) C's EXCEPT:

A) Compassion.
B) Conscience.
C) Concern.
D) Confidence.

Question 11

In practicing from the perspective of nursing as caring, nurses are concerned primarily with:

A) Health.
B) Human living.
C) Safety.
D) Environment.

Question 12

The shared lived experience in which caring between nurse and nursed enhances personhood is known as:

A) Direct invitation.
B) Calls for nursing.
C) Nursing response.
D) Nursing situation.

Question 13

The general intention of the theory of nursing as caring is nurturing:

A) Persons living caring and growing in caring.
B) The wholeness of others through caring.
C) Being and becoming through caring.
D) Hopes and dreams of others.

Question 14

This foundational body of work was considered the precursor or historical antecedent to the nursing as caring theory is:

A) Roach's The Human Act of Caring.
B) Paterson and Zderad's theory of humanistic nursing.
C) Mayeroff's work On Caring.
D) Florida Atlantic University's curriculum development.