PPN 101 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

PPN 101 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS

Question:
1. What are the three levels of critical thinking?
Answer:
1. Basic
2. Complex
3. Commitment

Question:
2. What is basic critical thinking?
Answer:
thinking is concrete and based on a set of rules or principles

Question:
3. What is complex critical thinking?
Answer:
Willingness to consider other options, including px preferences regarding care

Question:
4. What is commitment critical thinking?
Answer:
Anticipating the need to make choices without assistance from other professionals, and then assuming
responsibility and accountability for those choices

Question:
5. What is diagnostic reasoning?
Answer:
the process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions to identify diagnoses

Question:
6. What did Florence Nightingale do for nursing?
Answer:
Elevated the status to a respected occupation.

Question:
7. What is excluding from the white saviour, angel of mercy image?
Answer:
Promotes white saviour, subservience to male doctors, Florence opposed registration and higher education;
legacy of troubling statements on colonization and impacts on indigenous people

Question:
8. Who are three nurses of colour of note?

,Answer:
Harriet Tubman, Mary Eliza Mahoney, & Lillian Holland Harvey

Question:
9. Who played vital roles as nurses in Canadian settler societies?
Answer:
Indigenous women healers

Question:
10. What are the 3 major perceptions of nurses?
Answer:
1. mother (1945-65)
2. Sex symbol (post mid 1960s)
3. Careerist: current

Question:
11. What are the limitations of the virtue script in imaging of nurses
Answer:
Can trivialize the complex and knowledge-laden nature of nursing practice

Question:
12. Sister Calista Roy
Answer:
• Viewed the person in constant interaction with a changing environment
• Drew on Systems Theory to develop the Roy Adaptation Model (1976)
• Her model depicted four modes of adaptation: physiological needs, self concept, role function and
interdependence
• Believed the goal of nursing was to facilitate adaptation

Question:
13. Madeleine Leinginger
Answer:
• Developed a culture care theory within the broader field of transcultural nursing
• Strove for cultural sensitivity by attending to patients' values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviours
• Encouraged nurses to recognize the significance of culture when delivering care
• Emphasized that nurses are also cultural beings
• Highlighted the intersection of culture and social determinants of health, and how these determinants
shape and impact people's health and lives

Question:
14. Jean Watson

, Answer:
• Believed the nurse can treat the body, mind and spirit of a person through the establishment of a caring
relationship
• Argued that nurses do far more than deal with physical illness. Rather, they must attend to their primary
function and responsibility, which is caring
• Developed the Theory of Human Caring (1979), and a model of caring that includes 7 assumptions and
10 carative factors

Question:
15. Levels of Theory
Answer:
Grand Theory• Provides a global perspective on nursing practice, education &research (e.g. Nightingale,
Roy, Leininger, Watson)
Middle-range Theory
• Less abstract than grand theory; testable & specific; research links with practice
Practice Theory• Very specific; limited to specific situations• Reflects the day-to-day experience of nurses

Question:
16. What is the Nightingalean philosophical assumption of "natural laws"
Answer:
Laws of life are definable through experience and research including statistical analysis

Question:
17. What is the Nightingalean philosophical assumption of Mankind Can Achieve Perfection
Answer:
Mankind does seek self-perfection. In healthcare, people seek perfect health; it is a nurse's role to "alter the
enviro in such a way to obey the natural laws, thereby providing the enviro in which perfection might be
achieved"

Question:
18. What is the Nightingalean philosophical assumption of Nursing is a Calling
Answer:
Work is done with enthisiasm; should not be done for remuneration; should be considered like a religious
vow

Question:
19. What is the Nightingalean philosophical assumption that nursing is achieved through Environmental
alteration
Answer:
Through EA, px can be put in the best possible condition for nature to act, thereby facilitating the laws of
nature

Question:
20. What is the Nightingalean philosophical assumption that nursing requries a specific educational base?
Answer:
Idea was revolutionary in 19th C england; emphasis on teaching women