Deck 30: Marlaine Smiths Theory of Unitary Caring

Question 1

This concept encompasses actions that create healing environments;preserve dignity,humanity,and reverence for personhood;and facilitate authentic presence:

A)Appreciating pattern
B)Experiencing the infinite
C)Manifesting intentions
D)Inviting creative emergence

Answer 1

Manifesting intentions

Question 2

All of the following propositions are used to explicate attuning to dynamic flow EXCEPT:

A)Synchronizing rhythms of self with other.
B)Attending to subtleties of meaning.
C)Connecting to a pandimensional universe.
D)Being truly present in the flow of relating.

Answer 2

Connecting to a pandimensional universe.

Question 3

According to Smith,manifesting intentions could be studied by activities such as centering,setting an intention,affirmations,meditations,prayers,values-based decision-making,and mantras.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

In Smith's Unitary Theory of Caring,nurses approach knowing their patients through using ________ and _________abilities to grasp _______.

A)Problem-solving,nursing diagnosis,outcome
B)Sensory,extrasensory,wholeness
C)Sensory,extrasensory,patterning
D)Creative emergence,appreciating pattern,concept synthesis

Question 5

Through a unitary lens,the question was framed as: What is the quality of being in _______________ that is called "caring" within other theoretical contexts?

A)Mutual process
B)Pandimensionality
C)Manifesting intentions
D)Human-field patterning

Question 6

Smith's Unitary Theory of Caring provides a constellation of concepts from a unitary perspective.

Question 7

_________ is a quality of participating knowingly in human-environmental field patterning.

A)Appreciating pattern
B)Manifesting intentions
C)Experiencing the infinite
D)Caring

Question 8

Taking a conceptual abstraction and moving it to a place where it can be seen,heard,or measured is a(n):

A)Concept.
B)Propositional statement.
C)Empirical indicator.
D)Middle-range theory.

Question 9

Honoring the unique timing,pace,and direction of change is a propositional statement that provides additional clarity to which concept of Smith's Theory of Unitary Caring?

A)Inviting creative emergence
B)Attuning to dynamic flow
C)Manifesting intention
D)Appreciating pattern

Question 10

Smith's Unitary Theory of Caring was influenced by which of the following theorists?

A)Jean Watson
B)Martha Rogers
C)Margaret Newman
D)All the above

Question 11

Which of the following activities demonstrate nurse's preparation for manifesting intention?

A)Hand washing
B)Morning huddles
C)Interdisciplinary team conferences
D)All of the above
E)A & B

Question 12

Nurses enter a caring relationship with ________ through preparing to become the __________ environment that potentiates healing.

A)Patterning,inviting
B)Intention,energetic
C)Presence,human
D)Intention,pleasant

Question 13

Smith describes her theory at which of the following levels of theory development?

A)Grand
B)Middle
C)Micro
D)Macro

Question 14

Caring is flowing with the co-created rhythms of relating in the moment.

Question 15

Which concept of Smith's Unitary Theory of Caring is lived in nursing practice through sensing the readiness to begin to talk about sensitive issues or take on a major life change of the patient?

A)Manifesting intentions
B)Appreciating pattern
C)Attuning to dynamic flow
D)Experiencing the infinite