NURS 1000H EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
100% CORRECT (GRADED A+)
Q: Who was the first to define the concept of caring in nursing?
A:
✔✔ Florence Nightingale
Q: What is considered the core of nursing practice?
A:
✔✔ Caring
Q: What is caring in the context of nursing?
A:
✔✔ The practice of helping individuals who are unable to care for themselves,
especially the sick or elderly.
Q: What does Orem's Self-Care Theory emphasize?
A:
✔✔ Individuals should be responsible for their own care and, when possible,
the care of family members.
Q: What are the domains of caring in nursing?
A:
✔✔
Physical
Psychological
Interpersonal
, Social
Q: What does Benner’s Holistic Theory say about caring?
A:
✔✔ Caring is essential to excellent nursing. It reflects connection,
involvement, and helps individuals cope with illness.
Health is individualized by values, personality, and lifestyle.
Treatment lacks meaning if not tailored to the person.
Q: What does Leininger’s Transcultural Theory focus on?
A:
✔✔ Caring is the foundation of nursing and must align with the patient’s
cultural background.
It is nurturing and responsive to the person’s specific needs.
There can be caring without curing, but no curing without caring.
Watson: Theory of human caring (caring science) - ANSWER✔✔Holistic
-Patient, family, environment
Nurses exhibit conscious decision to care
This helps patient toward healing and wholeness
Focus in on cAre, not cUre
-cAring "inner healing" health
Nurse & patient affected by relationship
Swanson: caring has 5 dimensions - ANSWER✔✔Caring is has 5 dimensions
Knowing
,Being with
Doing for
Enabling
Maintaing belief
Caring is central to nursing
Theory can be applied to clinical setting
Caring is relational: - ANSWER✔✔Patients value nurse Effectiveness
Ability to perform tasks
Also value nurse Affect
Attitude or demeanor while performing the tasks
Patients are more willing to participate if they sense that they are cared about
Ethics of care - ANSWER✔✔Protects human dignity
Often perceived as a moral imperative
Requires awareness of potential unequality in relationships
This is due to either real or perceived "power" that patient assigns to the nurse
Knowledge is power
expression of care - ANSWER✔✔Spiritual
-Being aware of & honoring patient's beliefs
Presence
-Being there
Physically present
Demonstrating understanding
, Being with
-Sharing oneself
Touch
-Skin-to-skin
-Protective - to prevent injury
Listening
-Taking in patient information
-Interpreting what has been taken in
Eye contact (nonverbal)
Knowing
-Understanding the client
-Understanding the planned interventions
-Avoid making assumptions
-Focuses on client
metaparadigm - ANSWER✔✔Broadest perspective of a discipline.
Describes most general concepts that concern the profession.
metaparadigm of nursing - ANSWER✔✔Describes concepts that define the
discipline of nursing.
Early 1970s, four concepts
Health - ANSWER✔✔A variety of ways to define - individual specific.
Degree of wellness or illness experienced by the person.
"a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity."
ANSWERS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
100% CORRECT (GRADED A+)
Q: Who was the first to define the concept of caring in nursing?
A:
✔✔ Florence Nightingale
Q: What is considered the core of nursing practice?
A:
✔✔ Caring
Q: What is caring in the context of nursing?
A:
✔✔ The practice of helping individuals who are unable to care for themselves,
especially the sick or elderly.
Q: What does Orem's Self-Care Theory emphasize?
A:
✔✔ Individuals should be responsible for their own care and, when possible,
the care of family members.
Q: What are the domains of caring in nursing?
A:
✔✔
Physical
Psychological
Interpersonal
, Social
Q: What does Benner’s Holistic Theory say about caring?
A:
✔✔ Caring is essential to excellent nursing. It reflects connection,
involvement, and helps individuals cope with illness.
Health is individualized by values, personality, and lifestyle.
Treatment lacks meaning if not tailored to the person.
Q: What does Leininger’s Transcultural Theory focus on?
A:
✔✔ Caring is the foundation of nursing and must align with the patient’s
cultural background.
It is nurturing and responsive to the person’s specific needs.
There can be caring without curing, but no curing without caring.
Watson: Theory of human caring (caring science) - ANSWER✔✔Holistic
-Patient, family, environment
Nurses exhibit conscious decision to care
This helps patient toward healing and wholeness
Focus in on cAre, not cUre
-cAring "inner healing" health
Nurse & patient affected by relationship
Swanson: caring has 5 dimensions - ANSWER✔✔Caring is has 5 dimensions
Knowing
,Being with
Doing for
Enabling
Maintaing belief
Caring is central to nursing
Theory can be applied to clinical setting
Caring is relational: - ANSWER✔✔Patients value nurse Effectiveness
Ability to perform tasks
Also value nurse Affect
Attitude or demeanor while performing the tasks
Patients are more willing to participate if they sense that they are cared about
Ethics of care - ANSWER✔✔Protects human dignity
Often perceived as a moral imperative
Requires awareness of potential unequality in relationships
This is due to either real or perceived "power" that patient assigns to the nurse
Knowledge is power
expression of care - ANSWER✔✔Spiritual
-Being aware of & honoring patient's beliefs
Presence
-Being there
Physically present
Demonstrating understanding
, Being with
-Sharing oneself
Touch
-Skin-to-skin
-Protective - to prevent injury
Listening
-Taking in patient information
-Interpreting what has been taken in
Eye contact (nonverbal)
Knowing
-Understanding the client
-Understanding the planned interventions
-Avoid making assumptions
-Focuses on client
metaparadigm - ANSWER✔✔Broadest perspective of a discipline.
Describes most general concepts that concern the profession.
metaparadigm of nursing - ANSWER✔✔Describes concepts that define the
discipline of nursing.
Early 1970s, four concepts
Health - ANSWER✔✔A variety of ways to define - individual specific.
Degree of wellness or illness experienced by the person.
"a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity."
