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NUR 230 Exam 1 Questions And Answers
What are the 4 overarching goals of HP 2020? - Answers✔*Attain high-quality longer lives free
of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death
*Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve health of all groups
*Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
*Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages
Nursing theories include descriptions of which four concepts? - Answers✔Person, health,
environment, nursing
Nursing is a unique profession, concerned with all the variables affecting an individual's
response to stressors, which are intra and interpersonal in nature. - Answers✔Neuman Systems
Model
A _____ is an abstract image or idea of reality, usually represented by a word, which brings
forth mental pictures of the properties and meanings of things. - Answers✔Concept
In Orem's nursing model, the role of the nurse is to: - Answers✔Influence the client's
development in achieving an optimal level of self-care
A thread common to any systems theory such as those of Roy, King, Neuman, and Johnson is
the idea of: - Answers✔Interrelated parts functioning together to form the whole
Input" in Roy's Adaptation Model (a systems model) refers to: - Answers✔Internal and external
stimuli that the individual receives.
Theory is necessary to direct practice, education, and research. A nurse researcher would be
most likely to use theory to: - Answers✔Identify knowledge gaps in nursing
The goal of nursing is an important element in all nursing models. Which theorist believes that
the goal of nursing is to make the client comfortable and put the client in the best possible
condition to allow nature to act? - Answers✔Virginia Henderson
In the statement, "Nursing interventions are performed within the context of the nursing
process. They involve manipulating stimuli to support and promote independent functioning of
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the client, a biopsychosocial being," which of the four major concepts of nursing is missing or
least developed? - Answers✔Health
In Martha Rogers's theory, which of the following describes the relationship of the parts of a
living organism to the whole organism? - Answers✔The whole is greater than the sum of the
parts
The purpose of nursing theory in clinical practice has been to: - Answers✔Question what nurses
do
Which theorist supports the belief that the provision of patient care includes a personal
response by the nurse? - Answers✔Jean Watson
Performance of non-contact therapeutic touch is integral to which nursing theorist? -
Answers✔Roger
Specific assumptions about caring in Watson's Science of Human Caring Theory, include (select
all that apply): - Answers✔Caring promotes health more than curing; Caring involves
consequences
According to Leavall and Clark, primary prevention is focused on: - Answers✔Health promotion
and protection against specific health problems
Any variable increasing the vulnerability of an individual or a group to an illness or accident is
a(n): - Answers✔Risk Factor
The analogy of "thinking upstream" implies that nurses practicing in the community should: -
Answers✔Focus on changing sociopolitical factors to improve health
The goal of theory in nursing is to: - Answers✔Encourage the formalization of nursing concepts
Which of the following is a conceptual model of nursing that constitutes a formal explanation of
what nursing is? - Answers✔Roy's Adaptation Model
Who theorized about utilizing the environment of the patient to assist her or him in his
recovery? - Answers✔Nightingale
For her, Nursing is a theoretical system of knowledge that prescribes a process of analysis and
action related to care of the ill person - Answers✔Roy
According to her, Nursing is a helping or assistive profession to persons who are wholly or
partly dependent or when those who are supposedly caring for them are no longer able to give
care. - Answers✔Orem
Nursing is a unique profession, concerned with all the variables affecting an individual's
response to stressors, which are intra, inter and extra personal in nature. - Answers✔Neuman
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NUR 230 Exam 1 Questions And Answers
What are the 4 overarching goals of HP 2020? - Answers✔*Attain high-quality longer lives free
of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death
*Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve health of all groups
*Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
*Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages
Nursing theories include descriptions of which four concepts? - Answers✔Person, health,
environment, nursing
Nursing is a unique profession, concerned with all the variables affecting an individual's
response to stressors, which are intra and interpersonal in nature. - Answers✔Neuman Systems
Model
A _____ is an abstract image or idea of reality, usually represented by a word, which brings
forth mental pictures of the properties and meanings of things. - Answers✔Concept
In Orem's nursing model, the role of the nurse is to: - Answers✔Influence the client's
development in achieving an optimal level of self-care
A thread common to any systems theory such as those of Roy, King, Neuman, and Johnson is
the idea of: - Answers✔Interrelated parts functioning together to form the whole
Input" in Roy's Adaptation Model (a systems model) refers to: - Answers✔Internal and external
stimuli that the individual receives.
Theory is necessary to direct practice, education, and research. A nurse researcher would be
most likely to use theory to: - Answers✔Identify knowledge gaps in nursing
The goal of nursing is an important element in all nursing models. Which theorist believes that
the goal of nursing is to make the client comfortable and put the client in the best possible
condition to allow nature to act? - Answers✔Virginia Henderson
In the statement, "Nursing interventions are performed within the context of the nursing
process. They involve manipulating stimuli to support and promote independent functioning of
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the client, a biopsychosocial being," which of the four major concepts of nursing is missing or
least developed? - Answers✔Health
In Martha Rogers's theory, which of the following describes the relationship of the parts of a
living organism to the whole organism? - Answers✔The whole is greater than the sum of the
parts
The purpose of nursing theory in clinical practice has been to: - Answers✔Question what nurses
do
Which theorist supports the belief that the provision of patient care includes a personal
response by the nurse? - Answers✔Jean Watson
Performance of non-contact therapeutic touch is integral to which nursing theorist? -
Answers✔Roger
Specific assumptions about caring in Watson's Science of Human Caring Theory, include (select
all that apply): - Answers✔Caring promotes health more than curing; Caring involves
consequences
According to Leavall and Clark, primary prevention is focused on: - Answers✔Health promotion
and protection against specific health problems
Any variable increasing the vulnerability of an individual or a group to an illness or accident is
a(n): - Answers✔Risk Factor
The analogy of "thinking upstream" implies that nurses practicing in the community should: -
Answers✔Focus on changing sociopolitical factors to improve health
The goal of theory in nursing is to: - Answers✔Encourage the formalization of nursing concepts
Which of the following is a conceptual model of nursing that constitutes a formal explanation of
what nursing is? - Answers✔Roy's Adaptation Model
Who theorized about utilizing the environment of the patient to assist her or him in his
recovery? - Answers✔Nightingale
For her, Nursing is a theoretical system of knowledge that prescribes a process of analysis and
action related to care of the ill person - Answers✔Roy
According to her, Nursing is a helping or assistive profession to persons who are wholly or
partly dependent or when those who are supposedly caring for them are no longer able to give
care. - Answers✔Orem
Nursing is a unique profession, concerned with all the variables affecting an individual's
response to stressors, which are intra, inter and extra personal in nature. - Answers✔Neuman
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