Exam 4: Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice

A community health nurse is working with a variety of clients and decides to use a systems theory approach to assist them to meet their health care needs.In using this approach,the nurse focuses on the:

In preparing to review different theories,the nurse reviews basic information to assist in understanding the material.Theories are defined as:

The nurse realizes that which of the following stated client needs has the highest priority?

The nurse is working within a health care system that employs Neuman's theory.A client is having difficulty breathing and requires oxygen and medication.Within Neuman's theory,the nurse approaches the client to:

The nurse plans to apply a theory that focused on stress reduction.A theory proposed by which one of the following individuals should be selected?

Which of the following statements by the nurse best defines 'nursing diagnoses' for a client?

Swanson's theory of caring is best demonstrated when the nurse:

Which one of the four linkages of interest in the nursing paradigm refers to factors in the home or school?

The best example of an appropriate nursing assumption is:

The nurse is working with a client diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.The goal is that the client will be capable of living independently.The nursing theory that best supports this client's situation is:

Martha Rogers' theory has a framework for practice that includes the:

There are different types of theories that may be used by nurses seeking to study the basis of nursing practice.When the goal of a theory is to speculate on why phenomena occur,it is termed a:

While working on a postoperative unit,the nurse is applying the elements of the self-care theory.The nurse who assists the client to manage or attain self-care in wound management is using the theory developed by:

The nurse is caring for a client newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus.Which of the following nursing interventions best reflects Orem's nursing theory?

A similarity between the theories of Leininger and of Benner and Wrubel is:

An example of a nursing activity directed towards providing input to the nursing process is:

While the nurse realizes that the definition of health is unique to the client,the most universal factor is that health is:

Which of the following statements best expresses the primary goal of nursing practice?

Which of the following responses observed in a client recently diagnosed with lung cancer is most directly addressed by the Neuman System Model?

Although there are similarities in the different nursing theories,there are key elements that distinguish one from another.The emphasis of Jean Watson's conceptual model is that: