WGU D439 THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING PRACTICE
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS 2025/2026
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Definition
Includes all possible conditions affecting patients and the settings in
which their health care needs occur.
Factors in the home, school, workplace, or community influence a
patient's level of health and health care needs.
As humans, we are surrounded by our environment:
-Internal
,-External
-Interpersonal
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Interdisciplinary Theories Practice Based Theories
Environment/Situation The Domain of Nursing
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Definition
Betty Neuman (1924-present)
Neuman's systems model (grand theory)
Neiman's systems model (grand theory) is based on stress and the
patient's reaction to the stressor utilizing the nursing process:
1. Assess the stressor and the patient's response to the stressor
2.Identify nursing diagnosis
3. Plan patient-centered care
4. Implement interventions
5. Evaluate patient response
The "patient" is the individual, group, family, or community
The system is composed of 5 concepts that interact with one another:
,physiological, psychological, sociocultural, developmental, and
spiritual.
-Focuses on all levels of prevention: primary, secondary, tertiary
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grand theory Nursing Theory
nursing theory defines Neuman's Theory
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Term
The goal of nursing is to place the individual in the best condition for
nature to act by manipulating the environment
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Jean Watson--Theory Of Human Dorothea Orem--Self-care Deficit
Caring Theory
Hildegard Peplau--Nurse-Client Florence Nightingale--
Phases Environmental
Theory
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Definition
-Conceptualize individuals as an entirely irreducible whole
-Viewed individuals as being inherently and holographically connected
with the universal environment
-Martha Rogers
-Rosemarie Parse
-Jean Watson
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Rosemarie Parse Simultaneity Theories
environment/situation Virginia Henderson
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Definition
Theories of a discipline help to distinguish from other professions.
Nursing theory is the conceptualization of some aspect of nursing that
describes, explains, predicts, or prescribes nursing care. For example:
-Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory explains the factors within a
patient's living situation that support or interfere with his or her self-
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS 2025/2026
1 of 125
Definition
Includes all possible conditions affecting patients and the settings in
which their health care needs occur.
Factors in the home, school, workplace, or community influence a
patient's level of health and health care needs.
As humans, we are surrounded by our environment:
-Internal
,-External
-Interpersonal
Give this one a go later!
Interdisciplinary Theories Practice Based Theories
Environment/Situation The Domain of Nursing
Don't know?
2 of 125
Definition
Betty Neuman (1924-present)
Neuman's systems model (grand theory)
Neiman's systems model (grand theory) is based on stress and the
patient's reaction to the stressor utilizing the nursing process:
1. Assess the stressor and the patient's response to the stressor
2.Identify nursing diagnosis
3. Plan patient-centered care
4. Implement interventions
5. Evaluate patient response
The "patient" is the individual, group, family, or community
The system is composed of 5 concepts that interact with one another:
,physiological, psychological, sociocultural, developmental, and
spiritual.
-Focuses on all levels of prevention: primary, secondary, tertiary
Give this one a go later!
grand theory Nursing Theory
nursing theory defines Neuman's Theory
Don't know?
3 of 125
Term
The goal of nursing is to place the individual in the best condition for
nature to act by manipulating the environment
Give this one a go later!
Jean Watson--Theory Of Human Dorothea Orem--Self-care Deficit
Caring Theory
Hildegard Peplau--Nurse-Client Florence Nightingale--
Phases Environmental
Theory
Don't know?
, 4 of 125
Definition
-Conceptualize individuals as an entirely irreducible whole
-Viewed individuals as being inherently and holographically connected
with the universal environment
-Martha Rogers
-Rosemarie Parse
-Jean Watson
Give this one a go later!
Rosemarie Parse Simultaneity Theories
environment/situation Virginia Henderson
Don't know?
5 of 125
Definition
Theories of a discipline help to distinguish from other professions.
Nursing theory is the conceptualization of some aspect of nursing that
describes, explains, predicts, or prescribes nursing care. For example:
-Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory explains the factors within a
patient's living situation that support or interfere with his or her self-
