Deck 3: Theories and Models of Nursing

Question 1

In which model is nursing is an activity that helps the individual achieve and maintain an optimal level of behavior through the manipulation and regulation of the environment?
1) Parse model
2) Johnson behavioral system model
3) Swanson's theory of caring
4) Orem self-care model

Answer 1

2

Question 2

Factors in the client's past, such as personality characteristics, past experiences, religious beliefs, and social norms, that have an indirect effect on the client's health status are referred to as which type of stimuli?
1) Focal stimuli
2) Contextual stimuli
3) Residual stimuli
4) Factual stimuli

Answer 2

3

Question 3

Which of the following is a very important element in the Roy adaptation model because it provides baseline data about the client that the nurse obtains through assessment techniques?
1) Input
2) Output
3) Feedback
4) Throughput

Answer 3

2

Question 4

According to which model, illness is the client's inability to integrate life experiences and the failure to achieve full potential or inner harmony?
1) Roy adaptation model
2) Orem self-care model
3) King model of goal attainment
4) Watson model of human caring

Question 5

The main concern in the development of which model was to balance the impersonal aspects of nursing care that are found in the technological and scientific aspects of practice with the personal and interpersonal elements that grow from a humanistic belief in life?
1) Watson model of human caring
2) Johnson behavioral system model
3) Swanson's theory of caring
4) Orem self-care model

Question 6

Formulated in 1987, which model is widely used as the theoretical framework for research on prenatal care and pregnancy?
1) Parse model
2) Pender's health promotion model
3) Swanson's theory of caring
4) Orem self-care model

Question 7

According to the Neuman health-care systems model, which type of stressors occur within the client and include physiological responses, psychological reactions, and internal thought processes?
1) Extrapersonal stressors
2) Interpersonal stressors
3) Intrapersonal stressors
4) Transpersonal stressors

Question 8

Teaching a client how to care for a colostomy bag at home after discharge from the hospital is an example of a nursing activity at which level?
1) Primary level
2) Secondary level
3) Tertiary level
4) Quaternary level

Question 9

According to the Neuman health-care system model, teaching clients about stress management, giving immunizations, and encouraging aerobic exercise to prevent heart disease are examples of which type of intervention?
1) Primary intervention
2) Secondary intervention
3) Tertiary intervention
4) Quaternary intervention

Question 10

Select from the following the model in which the client-system's boundaries are called lines of defense and resistance and may be represented graphically as a series of concentric circles that surround the basic core of the individual.
1) Orem self-care model
2) Neuman health-care systems model
3) King model of goal attainment
4) Watson model of human caring

Question 11

The nursing profession tends to use which term when attempting to explain apparent relationships between observed behaviors and their effects on a client's health?
1) Model
2) Theory
3) Hypothesis
4) Evidence

Question 12

According to the Johnson behavioral system model, nurturing and promoting self-image is the primary type of activity of which behavioral subsystem?
1) Security
2) Dependency
3) Taking in
4) Eliminative behavior

Question 13

Which element of the King model of goal attainment refers to a life situation in which perceivers and things perceived are encountered and entered into as active participants?
1) Action
2) Reaction
3) Interaction
4) Transaction

Question 14

Although originally studied in the perinatal setting, which of the following has been adopted into many other health-care settings, including critical care, mental health, public health, hospice, gerontology, and oncology?
1) Parse model
2) Pender's health promotion model
3) Swanson's theory of caring
4) Orem self-care model

Question 15

The current widely accepted practice of establishing health-care goals for clients and directing client care to meet these goals has its origins in which model?
1) Roy adaptation model
2) Orem self-care model
3) King model of goal attainment
4) Watson model of human caring