Nursing Theorists and Their Theories/Exam One Questions With Correct Answers

Florence Nightingale - Answer 1st theorist -varied background -mother of nursing -Crimean War -focused on the balance between environment and patient -took care of people in war -noted that nurses were separate from physicians -prevention -cleanliness: air, water, housing Hildegard Peplau - Answer interpersonal theory -framework for psychiatric nursing -enhances the idea that the nurse and the patient participate in a relationship interpersonal theory - Answer what things the nurse and patient brings into the relationship and how it effects the relationship Virginia Henderson - Answer need theory -14 components: based on maslows -thinks about patients in the way of what they need -marked the difference between nursing and medicine -emphasis evolving role of the nurse in assisting the patient with the ultimate goal of independence -nurse evolves as we continue to care for patients -want patient as independent as possible -substitutive -supplementary -complementary nurse's role - Answer -Emphasis shifting from acute, hospital-based care to preventative community-based care -Nurses must assume blended roles with a knowledge base using evidence-based practice -each level requires more intervention from the nurse Martha Rogers - Answer Science of Unitary Human Beings -assist the patient with re-pattering (return to well-being) -humans are inseparable from their environment/promote symbiotic relationships with individual and environment -maximize health potential -human interaction with environment is dynamic (always changing) -rural public health nurse -most original thinkers for nursing -sees person as an energy field -health is influenced by what the patient views health as Isabel Hampton Robb - Answer founded American Nurses Association -Canadian -Rome after graduation -educational administration -theory -nursing education at the university level