CNUR 810 MODULE 1 2026/2027 – NURSING STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS, MODULE REVIEW & TEST PREP
Nursing Models - correct answer ✔✔- are frameworks or paradigms of the science of nursing. They
provide a comprehensive and holistic view for nursing practice. They are organizing frameworks that
help guide the decision-making process
Theory - correct answer ✔✔- evolved to mean organized information that is intended to explain a
phenomena. The nurse in practice is seen as the link between scientific theory and the delivery of quality
nursing care- that is, the link between knowledge and action
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Phenomena (plural for phenomenon) - correct answer ✔✔- are observable connections or relationships
between objects, events or ideas.
- For example, children will grow better when they receive adequate nutrition or infected wounds will
become red and swollen in response to an infection.
Ideas - correct answer ✔✔- results of organized thought about the origins, nature, boundaries and
significance of a phenomenon.
-For example, children who receive proper nutrition will be shown to have healthier hair, nails and bone
structure than those who are malnourished over long periods of time.
A concept - correct answer ✔✔- a term that is used to explain a mental image of an object or event.
- are ideas that are derived from experience and are expressed through symbols. Variables are the
observed character of the concepts
- For example, the amount of blood that flows through the kidneys at any given time allowing for age,
size and hydration and the amount of oxygen that is required to keep the O2 saturation of a client above
97%
Variables - correct answer ✔✔- Concepts that have the ability to vary in their characteristics are called
variables. V
- can be either internal or external in nature.
-An example, an internal variable that could influence the relationship of kidney and blood flow could be
the size of the arteries- an artery with a larger diameter could result in increase blood flow to and from
the kidney while an artery with a smaller diameter could result in a decrease in blood flow
A proposition - correct answer ✔✔- When two or more concepts are related/ connected they become
joined.
-a statement that describes how two or more concepts of a theory are related. - the relational
statements that predict and provide explanations in practice.
- For example an increase in potassium in blood could result in a decrease in sodium in the blood
Scientific theory - correct answer ✔✔- a set of interrelated constructs (concepts), definitions and
propositions that present a systematic view of a phenomenon by identifying the relationship between
the concepts, with the purpose of explaining and predicting the phenomenon
QUESTIONS, MODULE REVIEW & TEST PREP
Nursing Models - correct answer ✔✔- are frameworks or paradigms of the science of nursing. They
provide a comprehensive and holistic view for nursing practice. They are organizing frameworks that
help guide the decision-making process
Theory - correct answer ✔✔- evolved to mean organized information that is intended to explain a
phenomena. The nurse in practice is seen as the link between scientific theory and the delivery of quality
nursing care- that is, the link between knowledge and action
-
Phenomena (plural for phenomenon) - correct answer ✔✔- are observable connections or relationships
between objects, events or ideas.
- For example, children will grow better when they receive adequate nutrition or infected wounds will
become red and swollen in response to an infection.
Ideas - correct answer ✔✔- results of organized thought about the origins, nature, boundaries and
significance of a phenomenon.
-For example, children who receive proper nutrition will be shown to have healthier hair, nails and bone
structure than those who are malnourished over long periods of time.
A concept - correct answer ✔✔- a term that is used to explain a mental image of an object or event.
- are ideas that are derived from experience and are expressed through symbols. Variables are the
observed character of the concepts
- For example, the amount of blood that flows through the kidneys at any given time allowing for age,
size and hydration and the amount of oxygen that is required to keep the O2 saturation of a client above
97%
Variables - correct answer ✔✔- Concepts that have the ability to vary in their characteristics are called
variables. V
- can be either internal or external in nature.
-An example, an internal variable that could influence the relationship of kidney and blood flow could be
the size of the arteries- an artery with a larger diameter could result in increase blood flow to and from
the kidney while an artery with a smaller diameter could result in a decrease in blood flow
A proposition - correct answer ✔✔- When two or more concepts are related/ connected they become
joined.
-a statement that describes how two or more concepts of a theory are related. - the relational
statements that predict and provide explanations in practice.
- For example an increase in potassium in blood could result in a decrease in sodium in the blood
Scientific theory - correct answer ✔✔- a set of interrelated constructs (concepts), definitions and
propositions that present a systematic view of a phenomenon by identifying the relationship between
the concepts, with the purpose of explaining and predicting the phenomenon
