Deck 6: Remembering Development in Nursing

Question 1

The nurse is planning a research study to test a theory.Which approach is generally best for this endeavor?

A)Deductive using quantitative research methods.
B)Inductive using quantitative research methods.
C)Deductive using qualitative research methods.
D)Inductive using qualitative research methods.

Answer 1

Deductive using quantitative research methods.

Question 2

The nursing faculty is revising their program's curriculum and is developing a conceptual model.What will this faculty develop?

A)A graphic illustration of a conceptual framework.
B)An overall view or orientation to focus thoughts.
C)A system of ideas proposed to explain a given phenomenon.
D)A specific outline of the curriculum's topics and contents.

Answer 2

A graphic illustration of a conceptual framework.

Question 3

What are the four concepts that have historically been identified as the focus of nursing theory?

A)Assessment,goals,interventions,and evaluation.
B)Pain,anxiety,stress,and fatigue.
C)Disease,death,care,and cure.
D)Person,environment,health,and nursing.

Answer 3

Person,environment,health,and nursing.

Question 4

The nurse's research is designed to generate a new theory.What research approach has this nurse most likely chosen?

A)Deductive using quantitative research methods.
B)Inductive using quantitative research methods.
C)Deductive using qualitative research methods.
D)Inductive using qualitative research methods.

Question 5

The nurse says she knows a particular fact is true because "God says it is true." Which of Kneller's types of knowing is this nurse describing?

A)Rational
B)Empirical
C)Intuitive
D)Revealed

Question 6

The nursing school's curriculum is based on Orem's self-care deficit theory of nursing.How would this curriculum describe nursing interventions designed for individuals who are unable to perform some (but not all)self-care activities?

A)Wholly compensatory
B)Partly compensatory
C)Supportive
D)Educative

Question 7

The nursing faculty is revising their program's curriculum and is developing a conceptual framework.What will this faculty develop?

A)A document that relates concepts by defining their significance to one another.
B)An overall view or orientation to focus thoughts.
C)A system of ideas proposed to explain a given phenomenon.
D)A specific outline of the curriculum's topics and contents.

Question 8

The nursing faculty is revising their program's curriculum and plan to use a specific theory as a basis of their work.What is a theory?

A)A document that relates concepts by defining their significance to one another.
B)An overall view or orientation to focus thoughts.
C)A graphic illustration of a conceptual framework.
D)A specific outline of the curriculum's topics and contents.

Question 9

Which option is an example of an inferential concept?

A)Rash
B)Equilibrium
C)Pain
D)Powerlessness

Question 10

According to Carper,which way of knowing reflects the science of nursing?

A)Empirical knowing
B)Personal knowing
C)Esthetic knowing
D)Ethical knowing

Question 11

The nurse strongly believes that truth is based in experiences.Which research approach is this nurse most likely to favor?

A)Hard science model
B)Positivist
C)Cause and effect
D)Constructivist

Question 12

The nurse who bases practice on the theory of unitary human beings will focus on which set of concepts?

A)Caring factors,transpersonal caring relationships,and caring moments/situations.
B)Regulator,cognator,stimuli,and adaptation.
C)Energy fields,universe of open systems,pattern,and pandimensionality.
D)Self-care deficit,self-care agency,and therapeutic self-care demand.

Question 13

Which strategy would be most useful in integrating nursing theory and nursing practice?

A)Link nursing theories to medical theories.
B)Present theories in a compelling,practice-focused manner.
C)Define theories in terms of advanced nursing education.
D)Require each nurse to identify a personal nursing theorist.

Question 14

Which option is the most general in the scope of nursing theories and looks at the nature of things?

A)Grand theory
B)Middle-range theory
C)A concept
D)Philosophy

Question 15

The psychiatric nurse's practice is based on Peplau's Interpersonal Relations Model.The nurse has developed a relationship with a client in which the client has assumed the power.How would Peplau identify this phase of the relationship?

A)Orientation
B)Identification
C)Exploitation
D)Resolution

Question 16

The nurse's research is directed toward testing a specific hypothesis deduced from a theory.Which research approach does this work represent?

A)Dynamicism
B)Positivist
C)Constructivist
D)Naturalistic

Question 17

Why has nursing theory not been formally integrated into everyday nursing practice? (Select all that apply. )

A)Historically,nursing education was accomplished following an apprenticeship model.
B)Nursing theories were developed by nurses in graduate school at a time when advanced education in nursing was uncommon.
C)The theoretical basis of nursing was developed centuries ago and does not apply to current nursing practice.
D)There is little evidence that nursing theories are applicable in today's nursing practice.
E)Insufficient numbers of nursing theories exist to guide nursing practice.

Question 18

Why do most nursing theories reflect such strong influence from other disciplines such as sociology?

A)Those disciplines are more professional than nursing.
B)The theorists who developed nursing theories were often doing graduate work in those disciplines,not nursing.
C)Nursing theories were developed by non-nurses.
D)Nursing is not an independent entity,but a spin-off from other disciplines such as sociology and psychology.

Question 19

What is the underlying theme of Virginia Henderson's work?

A)Nurses move in stages from novice to expert in the field.
B)Nursing is best provided when culture is considered.
C)Control of the environment of healing is the most important aspect of nursing.
D)Nursing is independent from and interdependent with other health care disciplines.

Question 20

Which statement best reflects the essence of Madeleine Leininger's work?

A)Caring and curing cannot exist independently of each other.
B)Persons of all cultures tend to expect similar interventions from nursing care providers.
C)Both differences and commonalities exist in the ways cultures practice caring.
D)Western cultures practice caring at a superior level to that practiced in non-Western cultures.

Question 21

A hospital's nursing assessment form reflects first-level and second-level assessment.From this information,the nurse seeking employment at this facility determines that nursing service follows which theorist?

A)Orem
B)Roy
C)Benner
D)Leininger

Question 22

While planning care,the nurse works with the client and chooses a wholly compensatory nursing system to help the client achieve an optimal level of self-care.What is true about this situation?

A)Most nursing theorists support a different form of planning.
B)Nursing theories do not lend themselves to the action of planning nursing care.
C)Orem's general theory of nursing involves this type of planning.
D)This type of planning is only supported by the caring theorists.

Question 23

A clinical instructor is assisting a student understand the nurse-client relationship.In which order should the instructor introduce the phases of this process?

A)Old needs and goals are put aside and new ones are adopted.
B)The client uses the available services on the basis of self-interest and needs.
C)The nurse assists the client to understand the problem and the extent of the need for help.
D)The nurse's focus is to assure the person that the nurse understands the interpersonal meaning of the client's situation.

Question 24

The nurse reviewing medical records finds that nurses working in a particular hospital state nursing diagnosis in terms of the client's limitations to maintaining self-care.The record reviewer determines that this nursing service follows which theorist?

A)Orem
B)Roy
C)Benner
D)Leininger

Question 25

The nurse's practice is based upon the theory of Jean Watson.What is the primary theme of this theory?

A)Caring
B)Cultural care
C)Goal attainment
D)Environment

Question 26

How is nursing research related to nursing conceptual models?

A)There is little relationship;researchers choose subjects based on need or interest.
B)These models drive nursing research and provide a way to organize findings.
C)Nursing research has proved that most conceptual models are false.
D)Nursing research can be undertaken only if it is tied to a conceptual model.

Question 27

The nursing instructor is preparing information to present to students on the development of nursing knowledge.In which order should the instructor review this information?

A)Theory
B)Concept
C)Paradigm
D)Conceptual model
E)Conceptual framework