NURS 312 MIDTERM EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A PMH nurse is reviewing different nursing theories. What do these theories form?
A. the context for nursing practice
B. the conceptual basis for nursing practice
C. the spiritual basis for nursing practice
D. the basis for understanding the client - ANS B
A nurse is integrating Peplau's model when providing care to a client with a mental illness.
Which would the nurse identify as a key component?
A. suffering
B. anxiety
C. self-care
D. nonverbal behaviours - ANS B
A nurse performs behaviours the treatment team wishes the client to develop. The client
internalizes these behaviour through pervasive imitation. The treatment team is integrating
which cognitive theory in the client's treatment?
A. Erikson's model of psychosocial development
B. Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory
C. Skinner's operant conditioning
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,D. Freud's psychoanalytic model - ANS B
Which commitment of the Tidal Model is described as where the person's story contains
numerous examples of "what has worked" or "what might work" for this person?
A. use the available toolkit
B. craft the step behind
C. give the gift of time
D. be transparent - ANS A
In Freud's personality structure, the ability to form mutually satisfying relationships is a
fundamental function of what component identity?
A. alter ego
B. super ego
C. id
D. ego - ANS D
Which theory is described as nursing involving caring for the human being, with the target of
health defined as adjusting to the stressors in both the internal and external environments?
A. systems approach
B. spiritual attainment
C. goal attainment
D. interpersonal approach - ANS C
Which is the focus of the McGill model of nursing developed by students and faculty of McGill
University School of Nursing?
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, A. holistic model
B. health promotion
C. formal support systems model
D. classical conditioning - ANS B
Which theory was used in the original Canadian standards of PMH nursing practice?
A. the science of caring
B. the Tidal Model of mental health recovery and reclamation
C. the humanbecoming model
D. the primacy of caring and the domains of nursing - ANS D
Which key psychodynamic concept is recognized as the core of PMH nursing intervention?
A. defence mechanisms
B. needs
C. transference and countertransference
D. the therapeutic relationship - ANS D
Who proposed a gender differentiation developmental theory that female development does
not follow a progression of stages but based on experiences within relationships?
A. Anna Freud
B. Carl Rogers
C. Carol Gilligan
D. Abraham Maslow - ANS C
Which theory attempted to reconstruct the personality by examining free associations and the
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A PMH nurse is reviewing different nursing theories. What do these theories form?
A. the context for nursing practice
B. the conceptual basis for nursing practice
C. the spiritual basis for nursing practice
D. the basis for understanding the client - ANS B
A nurse is integrating Peplau's model when providing care to a client with a mental illness.
Which would the nurse identify as a key component?
A. suffering
B. anxiety
C. self-care
D. nonverbal behaviours - ANS B
A nurse performs behaviours the treatment team wishes the client to develop. The client
internalizes these behaviour through pervasive imitation. The treatment team is integrating
which cognitive theory in the client's treatment?
A. Erikson's model of psychosocial development
B. Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory
C. Skinner's operant conditioning
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,D. Freud's psychoanalytic model - ANS B
Which commitment of the Tidal Model is described as where the person's story contains
numerous examples of "what has worked" or "what might work" for this person?
A. use the available toolkit
B. craft the step behind
C. give the gift of time
D. be transparent - ANS A
In Freud's personality structure, the ability to form mutually satisfying relationships is a
fundamental function of what component identity?
A. alter ego
B. super ego
C. id
D. ego - ANS D
Which theory is described as nursing involving caring for the human being, with the target of
health defined as adjusting to the stressors in both the internal and external environments?
A. systems approach
B. spiritual attainment
C. goal attainment
D. interpersonal approach - ANS C
Which is the focus of the McGill model of nursing developed by students and faculty of McGill
University School of Nursing?
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, A. holistic model
B. health promotion
C. formal support systems model
D. classical conditioning - ANS B
Which theory was used in the original Canadian standards of PMH nursing practice?
A. the science of caring
B. the Tidal Model of mental health recovery and reclamation
C. the humanbecoming model
D. the primacy of caring and the domains of nursing - ANS D
Which key psychodynamic concept is recognized as the core of PMH nursing intervention?
A. defence mechanisms
B. needs
C. transference and countertransference
D. the therapeutic relationship - ANS D
Who proposed a gender differentiation developmental theory that female development does
not follow a progression of stages but based on experiences within relationships?
A. Anna Freud
B. Carl Rogers
C. Carol Gilligan
D. Abraham Maslow - ANS C
Which theory attempted to reconstruct the personality by examining free associations and the
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