Deck 6: Theoretical Issues in Nursing

Question 1

During which time period was the social status of nurses elevated and their contributions to key processes and decisions highly regarded?

A)Wartime
B)The depression
C)The nineteenth century
D)Health care reform in the 1960s

Answer 1

Wartime

Question 2

The inclusion of which metaparadigm concept as a fundamental concept for nursing created the platform upon which to build the socially relevant thought characteristic of modern nursing scholarship?

A)Person
B)Health
C)Nursing
D)Environment

Answer 2

Environment

Question 3

Which of the following was created in recognition in the 1970s of the importance of a precise language and taxonomy in nursing?

A)NANDA
B)NCLEX Examination Blueprint
C)CNATS Model for nursing knowledge
D)National Specialty Standards and Regulations

Answer 3

NANDA

Question 4

Which following term was used to describe the first nursing clinical decision-making structure?

A)Nursing inquiry
B)Nursing process
C)Nursing health and history
D)Nursing physical assessment framework

Question 5

As scientists across disciplines struggled with the implications of new ways of philosophizing about science, nurse leaders began to conceptualize nursing as a science in addition to being which of the following?

A)An art and a practice
B)Technologically advanced
C)Intellectually stunted from a solitary reality
D)An extension of the medical model of health care

Question 6

What name was given to the initial conceptual frameworks that were created by early nursing scholars?

A)Nursing models
B)Nursing theories
C)Definitions of nursing
D)Conceptualizations of nursing practice

Question 7

Which following person is credited with formalizing the knowledge and practice of nursing into a professional context?

A)Jean Watson
B)Virginia Henderson
C)Florence Nightingale
D)Marie Guenet de St. Ignace

Question 8

Which one of the following reflects an alternative paradigmatic position to general systems theory?

A)Totality theory
B)Simultaneity theory
C)Basic human needs theory
D)Human development theory

Question 9

Which reason is cited for why nurses were inhibited rather than supported in their systematic and critical thinking while implementing nursing theories?

A)Because of their specific language requirements
B)Because of their rigid application of the frameworks
C)Because they used foreign words and concepts for practice
D)Because they were unable to explicitly define the metaparadigm of nursing

Question 10

Which theorist attempted to depict an irreducible abstract conceptualization of "unitary human beings"?

A)Rosemarie Parse
B)Dorothy Johnson
C)Margaret Newman
D)Sister Callista Roy

Question 11

A university in which following province created the first Canadian nursing model?

A)Ontario
B)Quebec
C)New Brunswick
D)British Columbia

Question 12

Which following prominent nursing researcher was one of only two nurse recipients of the prestigious scientist award of the National Health Research and Development Program over a 25-year period?

A)Dr. Moyra Allen
B)Sister Callista Roy
C)Virginia Henderson
D)Dr. Margaret Campbell

Question 13

Whose early nursing leadership influenced other model builders to explicitly work with General Systems Theory in order to create models in which all aspects of the human person were understood to be in constant interaction?

A)Jean Watson
B)Ida Jean Orlando
C)Dorothy Johnson
D)Virginia Henderson

Question 14

Which term was used in early conceptual frameworks to describe arrival at a conclusion based on the analysis and interpretation of health information?

A)Nursing goals
B)Patient diagnosis
C)Nursing diagnosis
D)Expected patient goals

Question 15

Which following method was used by early nurses to develop the capacity for nursing reasoning?

A)Analytical processes
B)Conceptual processes
C)Educational objectives
D)Reflection, trial, and error