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2. Nursing uses theory and research to help understand its focus.
1. Nursing is considered a practice discipline. What should the nurse be aware is the main difference between this and a research/theory discipline?
Nursing uses theory and research to help understand its focus.
Nursing is not considered a practice discipline, and therefore does not utilize research.
Nonpractice disciplines do not utilize theory in development of their focus.
Nonpractice disciplines have a central focus of performance of a professional role.

3. 2. Nursing theory articulates the relationship among person, environment, health, and nursing. What term would a nurse use when referring to these four concepts collectively?
Paradigm
Conceptual model
Grand theories
Metaparadigm

4. 3. What central theory was the basis for Florence Nightingale's definition of nursing, and is integrated in all aspects of nursing as we know it today?
Goal Attainment Theory
Unitary Human Beings
Environmental Theory
Interpersonal Relations Model

5. 4. Which statement by the client would indicate to the nurse that the client is utilizing Orem's universal self-care requisites (needs)?
"I am slowly adjusting to the loss of my leg."
"When my spouse died in the car accident, I thought I would go crazy."
"I will not allow my mastectomy to stop me from living life fully."
"Sometimes I prefer to just be alone in my room and meditate."

6. 5. Using Betty Neuman's Systems Model, the nurse assesses the client's stressors. Which stressor would the nurse indicate as intrapersonal?
An incisional infection
Sleep deprivation
A desire to be everything to everyone
Recent loss of job

7. 6. The nurse is evaluating the concept of nursing theories
6. The nurse is evaluating the concept of nursing theories. Which would the nurse rule out as a purpose of nursing theories?
To promote enhanced salaries and benefits for nurses
To help build a common nursing terminology
To help establish criteria to measure the quality of nursing care
To offer a framework for generating knowledge and new ideas

8. 7. Which intervention would the nurse use to implement Imogene King's theory of goal attainment?
Interactions with the environment
Determining how the client adapts to stress
Purposeful transactions
Listing self-care deficits

9. 8. When utilizing Leininger's cultural care theory, it would be important for the nurse to remember what concept of human caring?
It varies among cultures and is largely culturally derived.
It is universal and the same in all cultures.
The nurse should teach it to the client's family members.
It is absent in some cultures.

10. 9. Which statement would the nurse include in a report on Jean Watson's theory of human caring?
There are ten adaptive mechanisms commonly used by clients.
There are five environmental factors related to client care.
There are ten carative factors related to human care.
There should be guidelines for including the family in client care.

11. 10. A supposition or system of ideas that is proposed to explain a given phenomenon is known as:
Theory
Conceptual Model
Concept
Paradigm

12. Therapeutic self-care demand
11. A 12 year old client with a wrist fracture was casted in the Emergency Room and prepared for discharge. The nurse explains to the client ways in which the client can take showers, comb their hair, and eat meals without disrupting the integrity of the cast and needing the assistance of her parents. The nurse focuses on which aspect of Orem's Self Care Theory?
Self-care requisites
Self-care agency
Therapeutic self-care demand
Self-Care deficits

13. 12. Which nursing model focuses on the biopsychosocial adaptive systems?
Orem
Rogers
Roy
Parse

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