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Chapter 1–The Health Care System and Contemporary Nursing
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.The nurse ensures that a client’s bedspace is neat and clean with the call light within easy rea
focusing on which nursing theorist who realized the importance of the environment for care?
1. Florence Nightingale
2. Sister Callista Roy
3. Dorothea Orem
4. Martha Rogers
ANS: 1
Florence Nightingale’s theory focused on the environment for care. Sister Callista Roy’s model i
tems theory and an individual’s ability to adapt. Dorothea Orem’s model is the self-care deficit t
Roger’s model is the science of unitary human beings.
PTS:1DIF:Apply
, 2.The nurse is instructing a client on self-administration of insulin so that the client will not nee
provider to do this activity. The nurse is implementing which of the following aspects of Virginia
theory of nursing?
1. A caring relationship
2. Helping the client achieve independence from the nurse’s assistance as quickly as possible
3. Integration of objective and subjective data
4. Application of critical thinking
ANS: 2
Virginia Henderson’s theory of nursing is to help people achieve health or a peaceful death so t
independent from the nurse’s assistance as quickly as possible. A caring relationship, integratio
and subjective data, and application of critical thinking are included in the American Nurses Ass
sential features of professional nursing.
PTS:1DIF:Analyze
REF:Emergence of Contemporary Nursing in the United States
3.A client tells the nurse that he has an HMO for his health insurance. The nurse understands th
of this type of health plan is to:
1. ensure payment is made to Medicare for services rendered.
2. maximize the utilization of health care resources.