Nursing Theory (Exam 1)CORRECT
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Understanding of the patient's condition, situation, and need. - ANSWER Weidenbach's four elements to
clinical nursing
Any person who has entered the healthcare system and is receiving help of some kind - ANSWER
Weidenbach's definition of patient
Any measure desired by the patient that has the potential to restore or extend the patient's ability to
cope with various life situations that affect health and wellness - ANSWER Weidenbach's definition of
need for help
Nurse's likeliness to make sound decisions based on differentiating fact from assumption and relating to
cause and effect - ANSWER Weidenbach's definition of judgement
Carried out to achieve a specific patient-centered purpose, rather than completion of the skill itself being
the end goal - ANSWER Weinbach's definition of nursing skills
Endowed with unique potential to develop self-sustaining resources
Includes both nurse and patient - ANSWER Weidenbach's definition of each person
-Nursing primarily consists of identifying patient's need for help.
-If need requires intervention, nurse facilitates medical plan of care and creates/enacts nursing plan of
care based on patient's individual needs and expressed desires.
-Nurse exercises sound judgment through deliberative, practiced, educated recognition of sentinel
symptoms. - ANSWER Weidenbach's points of color
Makes explicit nursing's values, knowledge, and practices of human caring that are geared toward
subjective inner healing processes and the life world of the experiencing person
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Understanding of the patient's condition, situation, and need. - ANSWER Weidenbach's four elements to
clinical nursing
Any person who has entered the healthcare system and is receiving help of some kind - ANSWER
Weidenbach's definition of patient
Any measure desired by the patient that has the potential to restore or extend the patient's ability to
cope with various life situations that affect health and wellness - ANSWER Weidenbach's definition of
need for help
Nurse's likeliness to make sound decisions based on differentiating fact from assumption and relating to
cause and effect - ANSWER Weidenbach's definition of judgement
Carried out to achieve a specific patient-centered purpose, rather than completion of the skill itself being
the end goal - ANSWER Weinbach's definition of nursing skills
Endowed with unique potential to develop self-sustaining resources
Includes both nurse and patient - ANSWER Weidenbach's definition of each person
-Nursing primarily consists of identifying patient's need for help.
-If need requires intervention, nurse facilitates medical plan of care and creates/enacts nursing plan of
care based on patient's individual needs and expressed desires.
-Nurse exercises sound judgment through deliberative, practiced, educated recognition of sentinel
symptoms. - ANSWER Weidenbach's points of color
Makes explicit nursing's values, knowledge, and practices of human caring that are geared toward
subjective inner healing processes and the life world of the experiencing person
