Deck 24: Patricia Liehr and Mary Jane Smiths Story Theory

Question 1

Story,storytelling,and story sharing are new to the practice of nursing.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The central activity between nurse and person that brings story to life in Story Theory is:

A)Connecting with self-in-relation.
B)Intentional dialogue.
C)Creating ease.
D)Story sharing.

Answer 2

Intentional dialogue.

Question 3

According to Liehr and Smith,practice stories are seldom heard and chronicled.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

In the exemplar involving Elizabeth's story,her arduous struggle to resume normal "independent living" is an example of which of the following?

A)Health challenge
B)High point
C)Turing point
D)Story plot

Question 5

Leihr and Smith describe this as a life circumstance in which life change generates uneasiness:

A)Creating unease.
B)Complicating health challenge.
C)Moments of ease.
D)Moments of unease.

Question 6

Physicians have recently emphasized ______as a way of learning clinical practice essentials and as a way of approaching patients.

A)Story medicine
B)Storytelling
C)Story sharing
D)Narrative medicine

Question 7

Liehr and Smith assert that our linear-thinking culture often places more value on physiological bodily responses than on:

A)Emotional responses.
B)Stories.
C)Social responses.
D)Technologies.

Question 8

In Story Theory,reflective awareness of self occurs through:

A)Connecting with self-in-relation.
B)Intentional dialogue.
C)Creating ease.
D)Story sharing.

Question 9

Composing a reconstructed story is what phase of inquiry in Story Theory?

A)Phase 1
B)Phase 2
C)Phase 3
D)Phase 4

Question 10

Smith and Liehr define _________ as remembering a disjointed story moment to experience flow in the midst of anchoring.

A)Connecting with self-in-relation
B)Intentional dialogue
C)Creating ease
D)Story-sharing

Question 11

Martha is a 16-year-old girl who presented to the hospital complaining of severe abdominal pain and believing she may be pregnant.It is determined that Martha is pregnant,and her health challenge is telling her parents.The nurse inquires about Martha's past relationship with her parents,her current relationship,and the relationship she would like to have with her parents.This active process by the nurse is referred to as:

A)Intentional dialogue about a complicating health challenge.
B)Creating ease while moving toward resolving.
C)Connecting with self-in-relation through developing story plot.
D)Reflecting on awareness of other through dialogue.

Question 12

Story path is the only approach to gathering story in a nursing practice setting.

Question 13

The assumptions of Story Theory are consistent with a ________ worldview.

A)Unitary-transformative
B)Metaparadigm
C)Totality
D)Simultaneity