NUR 302 Exam 1 Questions and answers
what are the four types of theories and describe each one -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-descriptive: theory that describes something; gives | | | | | |
general information | |
explain: it explains something (process, etc.)
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Predictive: theory that predicts and outcome
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Prescriptive: tell the nurse what to do and how to do it; this type is the
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most difficult one to develop
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(descriptive is the most broad and prescriptive is the most specific)
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why do nurses need nursing conceptual models and theories? -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-1. organize nursing knowledge | | |
2. guide inquiry to advance the science of nursing and nursing education
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3. guide nursing practice to provide consistency, enhance
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communication and patient care | | |
what is the main difference between a conceptual model and a theory?
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- ANSWER✔✔✔-level of abstraction
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,community of scholars (nurses, etc.) that share a commitment to
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knowledge, values, and processes to guide the thought and work of
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nursing - ANSWER✔✔✔-discipline
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where do conceptual models and theories come from? -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-disciplines
the way we think of things - ANSWER✔✔✔-concepts
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1st lady of nursing; pointed out that nursing does not just consist of
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following doctor's orders; help patient be as independent as possible -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-virginia henderson--> Need theory | | |
Need Theory (grand theory) - ANSWER✔✔✔-Virginia Henderson
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focus: principles and practice of nursing
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(nurses assist patients with 14 activities until they can do them
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themselves or help them have a peaceful death) | | | | | | |
the unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well,
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in the performance of those actives contributing to health or its
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recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if had
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the necessary strength, will or knowledge. And to do this in such a way
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as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Need theory |
, theory related to adaptation; we have external and internal behaviors;
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patients behaviors are adaptive or non-adaptive - ANSWER✔✔✔-
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Callista Roy's Adaptation Theory
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persons are adaptive systems with internal and external environments,
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whose behaviors may be adaptive or ineffective responses
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*The goal of nursing is* *to promote adaptive responses* -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-Callista Roy adaptation theory | | |
nurses help a patient cope with or adapt to changes in physiological, self
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concept, role function, and interdependence domains - ANSWER✔✔✔-
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Roy |
Grand theory | |
Focus: adaptation
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Transcultural theory - ANSWER✔✔✔-Leininger (has sunrise model)
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nurses practice according to the patient's cultural considerations. Your
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assessment takes a patient's background into consideration in assessing
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the patient and his or her health. Once the assessment is complete, the
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nurse should use the culture assessment to create a care plan that also
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takes their cultural background into consideration - ANSWER✔✔✔-
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Leininger's transcultural theory | |
what are the four types of theories and describe each one -
| | | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔✔-descriptive: theory that describes something; gives | | | | | |
general information | |
explain: it explains something (process, etc.)
| | | | |
Predictive: theory that predicts and outcome
| | | | | |
Prescriptive: tell the nurse what to do and how to do it; this type is the
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
most difficult one to develop
| | | | |
(descriptive is the most broad and prescriptive is the most specific)
| | | | | | | | | |
why do nurses need nursing conceptual models and theories? -
| | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔✔-1. organize nursing knowledge | | |
2. guide inquiry to advance the science of nursing and nursing education
| | | | | | | | | | |
|
3. guide nursing practice to provide consistency, enhance
| | | | | | | |
communication and patient care | | |
what is the main difference between a conceptual model and a theory?
| | | | | | | | | | |
- ANSWER✔✔✔-level of abstraction
| | | |
,community of scholars (nurses, etc.) that share a commitment to
| | | | | | | | | |
knowledge, values, and processes to guide the thought and work of
| | | | | | | | | | |
nursing - ANSWER✔✔✔-discipline
| |
where do conceptual models and theories come from? -
| | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔✔-disciplines
the way we think of things - ANSWER✔✔✔-concepts
| | | | | | |
1st lady of nursing; pointed out that nursing does not just consist of
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
following doctor's orders; help patient be as independent as possible -
| | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔✔-virginia henderson--> Need theory | | |
Need Theory (grand theory) - ANSWER✔✔✔-Virginia Henderson
| | | | | | |
focus: principles and practice of nursing
| | | | | |
(nurses assist patients with 14 activities until they can do them
| | | | | | | | | | |
themselves or help them have a peaceful death) | | | | | | |
the unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well,
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
in the performance of those actives contributing to health or its
| | | | | | | | | | |
recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if had
| | | | | | | | | | | |
the necessary strength, will or knowledge. And to do this in such a way
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible -
| | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔✔-Need theory |
, theory related to adaptation; we have external and internal behaviors;
| | | | | | | | | |
patients behaviors are adaptive or non-adaptive - ANSWER✔✔✔-
| | | | | | |
Callista Roy's Adaptation Theory
| | |
persons are adaptive systems with internal and external environments,
| | | | | | | | |
whose behaviors may be adaptive or ineffective responses
| | | | | | | |
*The goal of nursing is* *to promote adaptive responses* -
| | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔✔-Callista Roy adaptation theory | | |
nurses help a patient cope with or adapt to changes in physiological, self
| | | | | | | | | | | |
concept, role function, and interdependence domains - ANSWER✔✔✔-
| | | | | | | |
Roy |
Grand theory | |
Focus: adaptation
|
Transcultural theory - ANSWER✔✔✔-Leininger (has sunrise model)
| | | | | |
nurses practice according to the patient's cultural considerations. Your
| | | | | | | | |
assessment takes a patient's background into consideration in assessing
| | | | | | | | |
the patient and his or her health. Once the assessment is complete, the
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
nurse should use the culture assessment to create a care plan that also
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
takes their cultural background into consideration - ANSWER✔✔✔-
| | | | | | |
Leininger's transcultural theory | |
