Deck 5: Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice

Question 1

Which of the following elements is key to the framework for practice in Martha Rogers's theory?

A) Human becoming
B) Manipulation of the patient's environment
C) Seven categories of behaviour and behavioural balance
D) Focus upon the life process of a human being along a time-space continuum

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which one of the following individuals' theories should be selected if the nurse wants to focus on stress reduction for a client?

A) Peplau
B) Henderson
C) Neuman
D) Parse

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following statements reflects a current concern with the use of the nursing diagnoses approved by the North American Nursing Diagnoses Association (NANDA)?

A) NANDA's list of nursing diagnoses stifles critical thinking.
B) NANDA's list of nursing diagnoses should replace conceptual nursing models.
C) NANDA's list of nursing diagnoses is an inherent barrier to individualized care.
D) NANDA's list of nursing diagnoses does not reflect practical diagnoses.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following is a characteristic of complexity science?

A) Patterns of knowledge application
B) A rigid approach for describing experiences
C) Reducing phenomena to smallest properties
D) Orientation to studying the nature of people's needs

Question 5

Different types of theories may be used by nurses seeking to study the basis of nursing practice.Which one of the following types of theories speculates on why phenomena occur?

A) Prescriptive
B) Descriptive
C) Grand
D) Middle-range

Question 6

The shift in scholarly work regarding nursing theories in the late 1980s challenged nurses to include which of the following types of knowledge when theorizing?

A) Clinical
B) Intuitive
C) Theoretical
D) Substantive

Question 7

Which of the following is referred to as a body of knowledge that encompasses definitions of person,environment,health,and nursing?

A) Family nursing practice
B) Prescriptive nursing theory
C) Advanced nursing practice
D) Metaparadigm of nursing

Question 8

Although similarities exist in the different nursing theories,key elements distinguish one from another.Which of the following is the emphasis of Jean Watson's conceptual model?

A) Self-care maintains wholeness.
B) Subsystems exist in dynamic stability.
C) Stimuli disrupt an adaptive system.
D) Caring is central to the essence of nursing.

Question 9

Which of the following definitions best explains the idea of a theory?

A) "Mental maps" that make sense of information and decisional processes
B) Mental formulations of objects or events
C) Aspects of reality that can be consciously sensed
D) A purposeful set of assumptions that identify relationships between concepts

Question 10

Which of the following correctly defines the theorizing term proposition?

A) A purposeful set of assumptions
B) A declarative assertion
C) The process of formulating concepts
D) The structure that links concepts together

Question 11

While working on a postoperative unit,the nurse is applying elements of self-care theory,and is assisting a patient to attain and manage self-care in wound management.Which one of the following nursing pioneers developed this theory?

A) Florence Nightingale
B) Virginia Henderson
C) Dorothea Orem
D) Hildegard Peplau

Question 12

A community health nurse is working with a variety of clients and decides to use a systems theory approach to help them to meet their health care needs.When using systems theory,on which of the following should the nurse focus?

A) The client's interaction with his or her environment
B) The hierarchy of the client's human needs
C) The client's attitudes toward health behaviours
D) The response of the client to the process of growth and development

Question 13

The nurse is working within a health care system that uses Neuman's theory.A patient is having difficulty breathing and requires oxygen and medication.Which of the following approaches is the nurse's goal?

A) Strengthen the line of defences, and focus on prevention.
B) Promote attainment of biological self-care requisites.
C) Assist in physiological adaptation to internal changes.
D) Achieve the 14 basic needs.