Exam 4: Theories and Models of Nursing

The nursing profession uses the term ________________when attempting to explain apparent relationships between observed behaviors and their effects on a client's health.

What belief forms the basis for the Orem Self-Care Model?

In what way have advanced practice nurses most contributed to the development of theories and models in nursing?

Identify the four concepts that are common in most nursing theories.

Identify the two concepts upon which the framework for assessment is based in the Roy Adaptation Model of nursing.

What aspect of Watson's Model of Human Caring distinguishes it from most other nursing models?

Identify the major component for the maintenance of health used in the Roy Adaptation Model of nursing.

How can most living organisms be classified in general systems theory?

Select all the elements from the list below that are considered to be key to the King model of nursing.

Select a major contribution that King's model made to the practice of nursing.

Upon which principle is Neuman's Health-Care Systems Model based?

In the Roy Adaptation Model of nursing, the second-level assessment modes are most closely related to which part of the system?

How is a "client" most accurately described in Johnson's Behavioral System Model?

"Stimuli" in the Roy Adaptation Model is synonymous with which element in systems theory?

Identify the primary goal of nursing in the Orem Self-Care Model.

What is a key function of the nurse in Neuman's Health-Care Systems Model?

What can be expected of a system that has a high degree of nonsummativity?

Why is it important for nurses to understand and use a nursing theory or model in practice?

Identify the most important aspect of caring according to Watson's Model of Human Caring.

How is health described in the Roy Adaptation Model of nursing?