Deck 4: Theory Development: Structuring Conceptual Relationships in Nursing

Question 1

Theory development in nursing assists nursing in all of the following ways except one. Which of the following is not accomplished through theory development?

A) Helps the nurse understand practice
B) Identifies key ideas of practice
C) Organizes knowledge for use
D) Disproves prior nursing knowledge

Answer 1

Disproves prior nursing knowledge

Question 2

What is the term which refers to the process and methods used to create, modify, or refine a theory?

A) Theory construction
B) Theory development
C) Theory production
D) Theory design

Answer 2

Theory development

Question 3

What is the term that is used to describe the final steps of theory development in which the components of the theory are organized and linkages specified?

A) Theory development
B) Theory production
C) Theory construction
D) Theory design

Answer 3

Theory construction

Question 4

When discussing theory, the theory termed as a worldview that deals with generating knowledge and broad abstract concepts is which type of theory?

A) Practice theory
B) Metatheory
C) Middle range theory
D) Microtheory

Question 5

Theories that consist of conceptual frameworks defining broad perspectives for practice and looking at phenomena based on perspectives and lacking operational definitions are which type of theories?

A) Grand theories
B) Microtheories
C) Practice theories
D) Middle range theories

Question 6

Which theories contain limited numbers of concepts and are limited in scope with some degree of generalization, but the concepts are clear and hypotheses can be derived?

A) Microtheories
B) Practice theories
C) Metatheories
D) Middle range theories

Question 7

Which theories are narrow in scope and have few concepts with a focus on reality?

A) Metatheories
B) Practice theories
C) Middle range theories
D) Grand theories

Question 8

The level of theory that names and classifies characteristics of a phenomenon and determines what will be perceived as the essence of the phenomenon is categorized as which of the following?

A) Explanatory theory
B) Descriptive theory
C) Predictive theory
D) Prescriptive theory

Question 9

The categorization of theories that provide the relationship between phenomena under study and describe some of the associations or interrelations between and among the concepts is which type of theory?

A) Prescriptive theory
B) Descriptive theory
C) Explanatory theory
D) Predictive theory

Question 10

Which theory addresses nursing therapeutics and predicts consequences of interactions?

A) Predictive theory
B) Descriptive theory
C) Prescriptive theory
D) Explanatory theory

Question 11

The foundations of theories are which of the following?

A) Propositions
B) Relationships
C) Concepts
D) Hypotheses

Question 12

Concepts are fully developed and presented in combination with other concepts to create theoretical statements. Which type of theoretical statement is the following: "As children grow in height their weight will increase."?

A) Relational statement
B) Existence statement
C) Nonrelational statement
D) Linear statement

Question 13

The linkages in concepts of theories assist in which of the following?

A) Developing hypotheses
B) Identifying new knowledge
C) Assisting in conceptual map
D) Provide a framework for the theory

Question 14

How are nursing theories developed?

A) Discovered in research.
B) Revealed in practice.
C) Invented to describe events.
D) Designed to tie research to practice.