Deck 26: Locsins Theory of Technological Competence

Question 1

The primary nursing process in the theory of technological competency as caring in nursing is:

A) Designing participation in caring.
B) Knowing.
C) Implementation.
D) Evaluation.

Answer 1

Knowing.

Question 2

The process of technological knowing in nursing involves a circuitous and recursive process of engagement which includes all of the following EXCEPT:

A) Furthering knowing of persons.
B) Appreciating the person's humanness.
C) Gathering views of person.
D) Engaging in mutual knowing.

Answer 2

Gathering views of person.

Question 3

Continuous knowing deters objectification of persons.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The idealization of persons as complete human beings "in the moment" is expressed by Locsin as:

A) Vulnerability.
B) Substantiation.
C) Wholeness.
D) All of the above

Question 5

Illuminations of the person's hopes, dreams, and aspirations are referred to by Locsin as:

A) Technological competency.
B) Nursing responses.
C) Nursing process.
D) Calls for nursing.

Question 6

The nurse can know the person fully only in the moment.

Question 7

Mechanisms that persons use that allow the nurse to respond with the authentic intention to know them fully as persons in the moment are:

A) Caring technologies
B) Esthetic expressions
C) Calls for nursing
D) All of the above

Question 8

A simultaneous practice of conjoined activities that are crucial to knowing persons is known as:

A) Designing.
B) Participative engaging.
C) Knowing.
D) Further knowing.

Question 9

The practice of knowing persons as whole with the use of varying technologies is called:

A) Authentic intention.
B) Technological competency as caring in nursing.
C) Nursing technologies.
D) Machine technologies.

Question 10

A process that regards human beings as "stuff" to care about rather than knowledgeable participants of care is:

A) Continuous knowing.
B) Objectification.
C) Substantiation.
D) Participation.

Question 11

The continuous, circular, and recursive process of knowing persons demonstrates the ever-changing, and the dynamic nature of fundamental ways of knowing in nursing describes Locsin's process of _____________ in the theory of technological competence as caring in nursing?

A) Knowing
B) Participative engaging
C) Furthering knowing
D) Designing

Question 12

Entering the world of the other requires:

A) Rapport.
B) Trust.
C) Commitment.
D) All of the above

Question 13

Locsin asserts the entirety of nursing is to direct, focus, attain, sustain, and maintain the person.

Question 14

A shared lived experience between the nurse and nursed is called a:

A) Nursing situation.
B) Call for nursing.
C) Nursing response.
D) Nursing relationship.

Question 15

According to Locsin, coming to know a person deters:

A) Subjectivity.
B) Objectification.
C) Compassion fatigue.
D) Use of technology.

Question 16

Locsin argues that technological competency can and should displace the perception of caring in nursing.

Question 17

Nursing technological expertise is often perceived as noncaring.