Deck 7: Dorothy Johnson

Question 1

Johnson proposes that each subsystem is composed of at least four structural components that interact in a specific pattern. These parts are:

A) Person, environment, health, nursing
B) Goal, set, choice, and action
C) Preparation, readiness, action, review
D) Approach. disorganization, orientation, engagement

Answer 1

Goal, set, choice, and action

Question 2

The overall representation of Johnson's model can be viewed as a behavioral system within an environment.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

A number of existing theories were integrated into Johnson's development of the Behavior System Model. The PRIMARY theoretical foundation(s) for the model are:

A) Transpersonal theory.
B) Florence Nightingale's theory of nursing.
C) Existential theory.
D) Systems theory and developmental theory.

Answer 3

Systems theory and developmental theory.

Question 4

Two components of each subsystem include choice and action. Johnson refers to choice as the individual's repertoire of alternative behaviors in a situation that will best meet the goal and attain the desired outcome.

Question 5

Johnson proposed five core principals of systems thinking. These core principals include which set of answers?

A) Person, environment, health, nursing, nursing therapeutics
B) Being, becoming, angst, choice, actualization
C) Wholeness and order, stabilization, reorganization, hierarchic interaction, and dialectical contradiction
D) Peace, harmony, balance, stability, perpetuation

Question 6

Johnson viewed health as efficient and effective functioning of the system, and as behavioral system balance and stability. Behavioral system balance and stability are demonstrated by observed behavior that is:

A) Chaotic, random, and unpredictable.
B) Permeable, malleable, and flexible.
C) Purposeful, orderly, and predictable.
D) Predetermined, fixed, sequential, and static.

Question 7

According to Johnson, individuals are said to achieve efficient and effective behavioral functioning in all of the following, EXCEPT:

A) Their behavior is commensurate with social demands.
B) They are able to fit within the mainstream of society and follow the orders of the physician in order to regain their health.
C) They are able to modify their behavior in ways that support biologic imperatives.
D) They are able to benefit to the fullest extent during illness from the physician's knowledge and skill.

Question 8

From a behavioral system perspective, homeorhesis is a more important stabilizing process than homeostasis. In homeorhesis the system stabilizes around:

A) A trajectory rather than a set point.
B) Self-righting tendencies that can occur over time.
C) Development or adaptation of the behavioral system.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 9

Johnson conceptualized a nursing client as:

A) An interpersonal-integrative system.
B) Independent of the environment.
C) A behavioral system.
D) Being comprised of mind-body-spirit.

Question 10

Johnson integrated a complex knowledge set in the development of her Behavior System Model. Johnson has noted that her theory evolved from:

A) Philosophical ideas.
B) Theory and research.
C) Her clinical background.
D) All of the above