1511-NURS QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
•What is nursing telepractice? correct answer •Delivery, management,
coordination of care & services provided via information & telecommunication
technologies
1. PURPOSE OF A NURSING THEORY correct answer Why was the theory
formulated? • Is there an overall purpose for the theory; a hierarch of purposes,
or numerous purposes? • Is there a purpose for the nurse; person receiving care;
society; environment? • How broad or narrow is the purpose? • What is the value
orientation of the purpose; positive, negative, neutral? • Does achieving the
theoretic purpose require a nursing context? • Does the purpose reflect
understanding; creation of meaning? • Description, explanation and prediction of
phenomena? • When would the theory cease to be applicable; what is the end
point? • What purpose not explicitly embedded in the matrix of the theory can be
identified?
1. Recognize Cues correct answer *Identify relevant data in a clinical situation
that requires the nurses' attention * Getting the information • Scan the
environment • Identify signs & symptoms • Assess systematically &
comprehensively • Ensure accurate information
1. Therapeutic nurse-patient relationship correct answer Communicating
effectively is central to establishing a relationship Nurses establish & maintain
relationships This is accomplished via the nurse's knowledge skill, caring attitudes
& behaviors The relationship is based upon trust & respect The nurse puts the
needs of the patient first
2. Analyze Cues correct answer *Organizing & linking the recognized clues to the
clinical situation *Making meaning of the information *Clustering related
information `*Identify assumptions *Recognize inconsistencies *Distinguishing
,relevant from irrelevant information *Judging how much ambiguity is acceptable
*Comparing & contrasting *Predicting potential complications *Collaborating
with healthcare team members *Determining patient care needs/health care
environment issues
2. CONCEPTS correct answer • Is there 1 major concept with subconcepts
organized under it? • How many concepts are there? • How many major ones;
how many minor ones? • Can the concepts be ordered, related, arranged into any
configuration? • Are there concepts that cannot be interrelated? • Are concepts
broad in scope, narrow? • How abstract or empiric are the concepts? • What is
the balance between highly abstract & highly empiric concepts? • Do concepts
represent objects, properties, events; can you say? • Are there concepts that are
closely related?
2. Providing & Documenting Care correct answer Using technology, nurses
perform assessments by gathering data, determine patients needs, provide
information & advice, evaluate the patients understanding of the information or
advice Nurse use frameworks, theories, evidence-based practice, & processes to
identify needs & evaluate care Use standardized interview tools, computer-based
protocols, algorithms & other decision support tools
3 Modes of Action correct answer CC preservation / maintenance ◦ assistive,
supporting, facilitative or enabling professional actions & decisions that help
people of a particular culture to retain and/or preserve relevant care values so
that they can maintain their wellbeing, recover from illness or face handicaps
and/or death
CC accommodation / negotiation ◦ assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling
creative professional actions and decisions that help people of a designated
culture to adapt to or negotiate with others for a beneficial or satisfying health
outcome with professional care providers
, CC repatterning / restructuring ◦ assistive, supporting, facilitative or enabling
professional actions & decisions that help a client(s) reorder, change, or greatly
modify their lifeways for new, different, and beneficial health care pattern while
respecting the client(s) cultural values and beliefs and still providing a beneficial
or healthier lifeway than before the changes were co-established with the
client(s)
3 Paradigms in Nursing correct answer ◦ Work of Parse (1987), Newman (1991),
Fawcett (1995, 2000) ◦ Parse described 2 opposing perspectives: totality &
simultaneity
3 Types of Roles correct answer ◦ Primary Roles: the majority of behaviour
engaged in by the person during a particular period of life, determined by age, sex
& developmental stage (Tree Trunk)
◦ Secondary Roles: roles that a person assumes to complete the task associated
with a development stage & primary role (big tree branch)
◦ Tertiary Roles: related to primary & secondary roles & ways in which individuals
meet their role associated obligations
◦ They are temporary in nature, freely chosen, may include clubs or hobbies
3. DEFINITIONS correct answer • Which concepts are defined; which are not? •
Which concepts are defined explicitly; which are implied? • How much meaning
needs to be inferred? • Which concepts are defined specifically, generally? • Are
there competing definitions for some concepts; similar definitions for different
•What is nursing telepractice? correct answer •Delivery, management,
coordination of care & services provided via information & telecommunication
technologies
1. PURPOSE OF A NURSING THEORY correct answer Why was the theory
formulated? • Is there an overall purpose for the theory; a hierarch of purposes,
or numerous purposes? • Is there a purpose for the nurse; person receiving care;
society; environment? • How broad or narrow is the purpose? • What is the value
orientation of the purpose; positive, negative, neutral? • Does achieving the
theoretic purpose require a nursing context? • Does the purpose reflect
understanding; creation of meaning? • Description, explanation and prediction of
phenomena? • When would the theory cease to be applicable; what is the end
point? • What purpose not explicitly embedded in the matrix of the theory can be
identified?
1. Recognize Cues correct answer *Identify relevant data in a clinical situation
that requires the nurses' attention * Getting the information • Scan the
environment • Identify signs & symptoms • Assess systematically &
comprehensively • Ensure accurate information
1. Therapeutic nurse-patient relationship correct answer Communicating
effectively is central to establishing a relationship Nurses establish & maintain
relationships This is accomplished via the nurse's knowledge skill, caring attitudes
& behaviors The relationship is based upon trust & respect The nurse puts the
needs of the patient first
2. Analyze Cues correct answer *Organizing & linking the recognized clues to the
clinical situation *Making meaning of the information *Clustering related
information `*Identify assumptions *Recognize inconsistencies *Distinguishing
,relevant from irrelevant information *Judging how much ambiguity is acceptable
*Comparing & contrasting *Predicting potential complications *Collaborating
with healthcare team members *Determining patient care needs/health care
environment issues
2. CONCEPTS correct answer • Is there 1 major concept with subconcepts
organized under it? • How many concepts are there? • How many major ones;
how many minor ones? • Can the concepts be ordered, related, arranged into any
configuration? • Are there concepts that cannot be interrelated? • Are concepts
broad in scope, narrow? • How abstract or empiric are the concepts? • What is
the balance between highly abstract & highly empiric concepts? • Do concepts
represent objects, properties, events; can you say? • Are there concepts that are
closely related?
2. Providing & Documenting Care correct answer Using technology, nurses
perform assessments by gathering data, determine patients needs, provide
information & advice, evaluate the patients understanding of the information or
advice Nurse use frameworks, theories, evidence-based practice, & processes to
identify needs & evaluate care Use standardized interview tools, computer-based
protocols, algorithms & other decision support tools
3 Modes of Action correct answer CC preservation / maintenance ◦ assistive,
supporting, facilitative or enabling professional actions & decisions that help
people of a particular culture to retain and/or preserve relevant care values so
that they can maintain their wellbeing, recover from illness or face handicaps
and/or death
CC accommodation / negotiation ◦ assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling
creative professional actions and decisions that help people of a designated
culture to adapt to or negotiate with others for a beneficial or satisfying health
outcome with professional care providers
, CC repatterning / restructuring ◦ assistive, supporting, facilitative or enabling
professional actions & decisions that help a client(s) reorder, change, or greatly
modify their lifeways for new, different, and beneficial health care pattern while
respecting the client(s) cultural values and beliefs and still providing a beneficial
or healthier lifeway than before the changes were co-established with the
client(s)
3 Paradigms in Nursing correct answer ◦ Work of Parse (1987), Newman (1991),
Fawcett (1995, 2000) ◦ Parse described 2 opposing perspectives: totality &
simultaneity
3 Types of Roles correct answer ◦ Primary Roles: the majority of behaviour
engaged in by the person during a particular period of life, determined by age, sex
& developmental stage (Tree Trunk)
◦ Secondary Roles: roles that a person assumes to complete the task associated
with a development stage & primary role (big tree branch)
◦ Tertiary Roles: related to primary & secondary roles & ways in which individuals
meet their role associated obligations
◦ They are temporary in nature, freely chosen, may include clubs or hobbies
3. DEFINITIONS correct answer • Which concepts are defined; which are not? •
Which concepts are defined explicitly; which are implied? • How much meaning
needs to be inferred? • Which concepts are defined specifically, generally? • Are
there competing definitions for some concepts; similar definitions for different
