THEORETICAL BASIS FOR NURSING SIXTH
EDITION MCEWEN AND WILLS
EXAMINATION REVIEW BUNDLED SET
PRACTICE SOLUTIONS GUARANTEED TO
PASS
⩥ What is Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory?
Answer: A theory that emphasizes the importance of the environment in
patient care, focusing on factors such as cleanliness, ventilation, and
nutrition to promote healing.
⩥ What is Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring?
Answer: A theory that highlights the importance of caring relationships
between nurses and patients, emphasizing the holistic nature of care and
the moral commitment to caring.
⩥ What is Hildegard Peplau's Interpersonal Theory?
Answer: A theory that focuses on the nurse-patient relationship as a key
component of nursing practice, emphasizing communication, trust, and
the therapeutic relationship.
⩥ What is Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory?
,Answer: A theory that centers on the individual's ability to perform self-
care and the role of nursing in supporting patients to meet their own self-
care needs.
⩥ What is the relevance of nursing theories to practice?
Answer: Nursing theories provide a framework for understanding patient
care, guiding clinical decision-making, improving patient outcomes, and
enhancing the professional development of nurses.
⩥ Assessment
Answer: Collect subjective and objective data; identify what is
abnormal, urgent, changing, or safety-related.
⩥ Diagnosis
Answer: Analyze cues, cluster data, and decide the likely problem and
priority concern.
⩥ Planning
Answer: Set SMART goals and choose interventions that match the
priority problem.
⩥ Implementation
Answer: Perform nursing actions safely, delegate appropriately, teach,
document, and communicate.
, ⩥ Evaluation
Answer: Compare outcomes with the goal and revise the plan if needed.
⩥ Critical thinking
Answer: Use assessment data, clinical knowledge, patient preferences,
safety principles, and evidence to make sound decisions.
⩥ ABCs
Answer: Airway, breathing, and circulation are usually the first
priorities.
⩥ Safety before comfort
Answer: Falls, wrong-patient errors, medication errors, suicide risk,
abuse, and unsafe environments are high priority.
⩥ Acute before chronic
Answer: New, severe, sudden, or worsening findings matter more than
stable long-term problems.
⩥ Unstable before stable
Answer: Prioritize abnormal vital signs, decreasing consciousness,
uncontrolled bleeding, respiratory distress, chest pain, stroke symptoms,
and sepsis cues.
EDITION MCEWEN AND WILLS
EXAMINATION REVIEW BUNDLED SET
PRACTICE SOLUTIONS GUARANTEED TO
PASS
⩥ What is Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory?
Answer: A theory that emphasizes the importance of the environment in
patient care, focusing on factors such as cleanliness, ventilation, and
nutrition to promote healing.
⩥ What is Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring?
Answer: A theory that highlights the importance of caring relationships
between nurses and patients, emphasizing the holistic nature of care and
the moral commitment to caring.
⩥ What is Hildegard Peplau's Interpersonal Theory?
Answer: A theory that focuses on the nurse-patient relationship as a key
component of nursing practice, emphasizing communication, trust, and
the therapeutic relationship.
⩥ What is Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory?
,Answer: A theory that centers on the individual's ability to perform self-
care and the role of nursing in supporting patients to meet their own self-
care needs.
⩥ What is the relevance of nursing theories to practice?
Answer: Nursing theories provide a framework for understanding patient
care, guiding clinical decision-making, improving patient outcomes, and
enhancing the professional development of nurses.
⩥ Assessment
Answer: Collect subjective and objective data; identify what is
abnormal, urgent, changing, or safety-related.
⩥ Diagnosis
Answer: Analyze cues, cluster data, and decide the likely problem and
priority concern.
⩥ Planning
Answer: Set SMART goals and choose interventions that match the
priority problem.
⩥ Implementation
Answer: Perform nursing actions safely, delegate appropriately, teach,
document, and communicate.
, ⩥ Evaluation
Answer: Compare outcomes with the goal and revise the plan if needed.
⩥ Critical thinking
Answer: Use assessment data, clinical knowledge, patient preferences,
safety principles, and evidence to make sound decisions.
⩥ ABCs
Answer: Airway, breathing, and circulation are usually the first
priorities.
⩥ Safety before comfort
Answer: Falls, wrong-patient errors, medication errors, suicide risk,
abuse, and unsafe environments are high priority.
⩥ Acute before chronic
Answer: New, severe, sudden, or worsening findings matter more than
stable long-term problems.
⩥ Unstable before stable
Answer: Prioritize abnormal vital signs, decreasing consciousness,
uncontrolled bleeding, respiratory distress, chest pain, stroke symptoms,
and sepsis cues.
