Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
SATA: what is true about caring?
a) an altruistic act or feeling of concern for another
b) recognizing suffering and trying to relieve it
c) being there for a family or patient in whatever way is needed
d) it reflects a high regard for clients as human beings - CORRECT ANSWER - a) an
altruistic act or feeling of concern for another
c) being there for a family or patient in whatever way is needed
d) it reflects a high regard for clients as human beings
what are the four metaparadigms of nursing? what does watson argue related to this? -
CORRECT ANSWER - person, environment, health, nurse
caring should be included
who suggested that caring is no longer central to nursing in a technologically dominated setting?
what does this mean? - CORRECT ANSWER - adams
caring is facing challenges about its centrality in the profession
SATA: what are threats to caring?
a) technological advances, increased work loads, high acuity patients
b) the current emphasis on the medical model
c) removal of caring from a sanctioned definition of nursing
, d) nurse theorists who challenged it
e) laziness by nurses
f) the fact that nursing is a science, not an art - CORRECT ANSWER - a) technological
advances, increased work loads, high acuity patients
b) the current emphasis on the medical model
c) removal of caring from a sanctioned definition of nursing
d) nurse theorists who challenged it
who suggested that the ascendency of nursing as a science has led to the de-valuation of caring? -
CORRECT ANSWER - lazenby
T or F: while lazenby stated that the ascendency of nursing as a science has led to the de-
valuation of caring, they did not denounce the value of research & science - CORRECT
ANSWER - TRUE
T or F: watson suggests the focus on positivistic nursing research and the primacy of evidence-
based medicine has shifted the focus of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER - FALSE -
lazenby said this
what is the "silent crisis" in nursing related to caring? - CORRECT ANSWER - evidence-
based medicine has shifted the focus away from the caring aspects of nursing
what are the two perspectives to nursing? which is more important? - CORRECT
ANSWER - humanistic & pragmatic
neither - they are both equally important
what are some solutions to the "conundrum of caring"? - CORRECT ANSWER - nurses
should develop a focused and unified statement about caring & nursing
nurse theorists who challenged the value of caring (not based on research) need to be challenged