NURS 6700 Exam 1 questions with answers
Who was Florence Nightingale? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔She provided a
foundation for nurses to think about the patient and evironment, her principles
shaped/defined standards of nursing practice,
she taught and used the nursing process noting that collection of data (assessment) was for
the sake of saving a person's life, promoting comfort, and increasing health
A theory helps explain ___ by defining ___, explaining ___, and prediciting ___ - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔an event, concepts, the relationship among the concepts,
outcomes
How are theories used in nursing? (i.e. nursing theory) - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔Conceptualizes an aspect of nursing to describe, explain, predict, or prescribe nursing
care; they guide what we do in nursing
Theories in nursing explain a ___ - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔phenomenon
What are the 4 components of a nursing theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔phenomenon, concepts, definitions, assumptions
Grand theory - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔provides structural framework for general,
global ideas about nursing; focuses on nursing as a whole rather than a specific type of
nursing; more abstract
Middle range theory - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔more precise and addresses specific
phenomenon
Practice theory - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔brings theory to the bedside
,What is Watson's theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔defines the outcome of
nursing activity in regard to the humanistic aspects of life; promoting and restoring health
and preventing illness; transpersonal caring model; nurse knowledgable about human
behavior/responses
What is Peplau's theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔focuses on the interpersonal
relationship between the nurse, the patient, and the patien'ts family and developing that
relationships; collaborative nurse-patient relationship creates a "maturing force"
What are the 4 phases of Peplau's theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔preorientation, orientation, working phase, and resolution
What takes place in Peplau's preorientation phase? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔data
gathering
What takes place in Peplau'ts orientation phase? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔the
defining issue
What takes place in Peplau's working phase? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔therapeutic activity
What takes place in Peplau's resolution phase? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔termination of the relationship
Orem's Theory focuses on ___ - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔self-care needs of the
patient
What is the goal of Orem's theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔to make the patient
as self-sufficient as possible and manage his/her health problems
, Orem's theory believes that nurses are there to do what? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔to meet the needs of the patient who cannont fulfill his/her needs themselves
What is the focus of Leninger's middle-range theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔cultural care diversity and universality; probiding care consistent with nursing's
emerging science and knowledge with caring as a central force
What is the goal of Leninger's theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔To provide the
patient with culturally specific nursing care
What is the focus of Roger's theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔unitary beings,
human becoming, and expanding consciousness
According to Roger's theory, nursing care should focus on what? - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔helping a patient use their own potential to identify and alter personal
rhythms/patters to promote and maintain health
According to Roger's theory, health stems from what? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔how patients live their lives in accordance with their own values
What is Neuman's grand theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔A systems model bsed
on stress and the clien'ts reaction to the stressor
According to Neuman's theory, what are the 5 concepts that interact with one another to
achieve optimal wellness? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔physiological, psychological,
sociocultural, developmental, and spiritual
What are the 4 domains of the nursing theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔person,
health, environment/situation, nursing
Who was Florence Nightingale? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔She provided a
foundation for nurses to think about the patient and evironment, her principles
shaped/defined standards of nursing practice,
she taught and used the nursing process noting that collection of data (assessment) was for
the sake of saving a person's life, promoting comfort, and increasing health
A theory helps explain ___ by defining ___, explaining ___, and prediciting ___ - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔an event, concepts, the relationship among the concepts,
outcomes
How are theories used in nursing? (i.e. nursing theory) - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔Conceptualizes an aspect of nursing to describe, explain, predict, or prescribe nursing
care; they guide what we do in nursing
Theories in nursing explain a ___ - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔phenomenon
What are the 4 components of a nursing theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔phenomenon, concepts, definitions, assumptions
Grand theory - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔provides structural framework for general,
global ideas about nursing; focuses on nursing as a whole rather than a specific type of
nursing; more abstract
Middle range theory - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔more precise and addresses specific
phenomenon
Practice theory - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔brings theory to the bedside
,What is Watson's theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔defines the outcome of
nursing activity in regard to the humanistic aspects of life; promoting and restoring health
and preventing illness; transpersonal caring model; nurse knowledgable about human
behavior/responses
What is Peplau's theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔focuses on the interpersonal
relationship between the nurse, the patient, and the patien'ts family and developing that
relationships; collaborative nurse-patient relationship creates a "maturing force"
What are the 4 phases of Peplau's theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔preorientation, orientation, working phase, and resolution
What takes place in Peplau's preorientation phase? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔data
gathering
What takes place in Peplau'ts orientation phase? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔the
defining issue
What takes place in Peplau's working phase? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔therapeutic activity
What takes place in Peplau's resolution phase? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔termination of the relationship
Orem's Theory focuses on ___ - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔self-care needs of the
patient
What is the goal of Orem's theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔to make the patient
as self-sufficient as possible and manage his/her health problems
, Orem's theory believes that nurses are there to do what? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔to meet the needs of the patient who cannont fulfill his/her needs themselves
What is the focus of Leninger's middle-range theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔cultural care diversity and universality; probiding care consistent with nursing's
emerging science and knowledge with caring as a central force
What is the goal of Leninger's theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔To provide the
patient with culturally specific nursing care
What is the focus of Roger's theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔unitary beings,
human becoming, and expanding consciousness
According to Roger's theory, nursing care should focus on what? - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔helping a patient use their own potential to identify and alter personal
rhythms/patters to promote and maintain health
According to Roger's theory, health stems from what? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔how patients live their lives in accordance with their own values
What is Neuman's grand theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔A systems model bsed
on stress and the clien'ts reaction to the stressor
According to Neuman's theory, what are the 5 concepts that interact with one another to
achieve optimal wellness? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔physiological, psychological,
sociocultural, developmental, and spiritual
What are the 4 domains of the nursing theory? - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔person,
health, environment/situation, nursing
