NURSE EXECUTIVE ACTUAL FINAL PAPER 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS TAGGED A+
✔✔This provides an overall framwork for structuring ideas - ✔✔Grand theory
✔✔This is used to address more narrowy defined phenomena and can be used to
suggest an intervention - ✔✔Middle-range theory
✔✔A meta-paradigm in nursing has 4 areas - ✔✔Person, Health, Environment and
Nursing
✔✔She is recognized as the first nurse theorist. She describe nursing as both an art
and science. She recommeded adjusting the environment to improve a person's health.
- ✔✔Florence Nightingale4
✔✔She described 4 conservatin principles for nursing, specifically the conervation of
energy, structural integrity, personal integrity, and social stability. She also stated
people need nursing when they are unable to care for themselves. - ✔✔Myra Levine
✔✔She developed the theory of Human Caring and described 10 carative factors. -
✔✔Jean Watson
✔✔She developed the theory of the Science of Unitary Human Beings, in which the
person is a unified whole, greater than the sum of parts. - ✔✔Martha Rogers
✔✔She emphasized understanding the person's lived experiences as related to health.
- ✔✔Rosemary Parse
✔✔This is an example of middle-range theory and uses 11 functional health patterns to
provide a framework for assessment, nursing dx, and a plan of car. - ✔✔Gordon's
Functional Health Patterns
✔✔Hildegard Peplau- Peplau's interpersonal relations model *environment not defined -
✔✔P- Focus on the individual- they live in an unsatble equilibrium & strive to reduce
anxiety
H- Moving toward a directon of beong creative, constructive, productive, & personal and
community living N- Sick person and nurse therapeutic communication
✔✔Virginia Henderson- definition of nursing - ✔✔P- complete being who has 14
fundamental needs
E- aggregate the external conditions & influences
H- Requires independence 7 interdependence Must be able to do the 14 basics unaided
N- to assist those who cannot do by themselves
, ✔✔14 funadmental needs - ✔✔breathing, eat, drink, eliminate, move & maintain
posture, sleep & rest, dress & undress, maintain body temp, keep clean, avoid danger,
communicate, worship, work, play and learn
✔✔Madeleine Leininger - cultural care diversity & universality theory - ✔✔P- Human
beings are caring & capable of feeling concern E- *none*
H- a state of well being that is culturally defined, valued & practiced
N- uses problem solving approach, 3 models of action- see next card
✔✔3 models of action in Leininger's theory - ✔✔culture care preservation, culture care
accomidation, and culture care re-patterning
✔✔Orem's self care theory- Dorothea E. Orem - ✔✔P- a unity who can be viewed as
functioning biologically, symbolically & socially, and who initiates & performs on thier
own to maintain health and well being.
H- Well being is used in the sense of the person's percieved condition of existance.
✔✔Orem's theory regarding Nursing . - ✔✔Nursing is a deliberate action, a function of
the practical intelligence of nurses & action to bring mundanely desirable conditions
✔✔Roger's science of unitary human beings- Martha E. Rogers - ✔✔P- Different from
the sum of its parts. Continous repatterning.
E- Each is specific to its given human field.
H- + health= wellness.
✔✔Roger's theory regarding Nursing - ✔✔A humanistic science dedicated to
compassionate concern with maintaining & promoting health, preventing illness, &
caring for & rehabilitating the sick and disabled.
✔✔Roy's 4 modes of adaption based on - ✔✔physiologic needs, self-concept, role
function, and interdependence
✔✔Watson's human caring theory- Jean Watson - ✔✔P- person is greater than &
different from the sum of parts. Individuality is important.
H- high level of physical, menatl, and social functioning.
E- social, cultural and spiritual influences of society. Sets goals
✔✔Watson's theory re: nursing- - ✔✔Nursing combines the research process witht he
problem solving approach & is concerned with promoting and restoring health,
preventing illness & caring for the sick
✔✔King's goal attainment theory- Imogene King - ✔✔P- 3 interacting systems, the
personal systems is unified complex whole self who percieves, thinks, desires, imagines
& decides, identifies goals & selects means to achieve it.
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS TAGGED A+
✔✔This provides an overall framwork for structuring ideas - ✔✔Grand theory
✔✔This is used to address more narrowy defined phenomena and can be used to
suggest an intervention - ✔✔Middle-range theory
✔✔A meta-paradigm in nursing has 4 areas - ✔✔Person, Health, Environment and
Nursing
✔✔She is recognized as the first nurse theorist. She describe nursing as both an art
and science. She recommeded adjusting the environment to improve a person's health.
- ✔✔Florence Nightingale4
✔✔She described 4 conservatin principles for nursing, specifically the conervation of
energy, structural integrity, personal integrity, and social stability. She also stated
people need nursing when they are unable to care for themselves. - ✔✔Myra Levine
✔✔She developed the theory of Human Caring and described 10 carative factors. -
✔✔Jean Watson
✔✔She developed the theory of the Science of Unitary Human Beings, in which the
person is a unified whole, greater than the sum of parts. - ✔✔Martha Rogers
✔✔She emphasized understanding the person's lived experiences as related to health.
- ✔✔Rosemary Parse
✔✔This is an example of middle-range theory and uses 11 functional health patterns to
provide a framework for assessment, nursing dx, and a plan of car. - ✔✔Gordon's
Functional Health Patterns
✔✔Hildegard Peplau- Peplau's interpersonal relations model *environment not defined -
✔✔P- Focus on the individual- they live in an unsatble equilibrium & strive to reduce
anxiety
H- Moving toward a directon of beong creative, constructive, productive, & personal and
community living N- Sick person and nurse therapeutic communication
✔✔Virginia Henderson- definition of nursing - ✔✔P- complete being who has 14
fundamental needs
E- aggregate the external conditions & influences
H- Requires independence 7 interdependence Must be able to do the 14 basics unaided
N- to assist those who cannot do by themselves
, ✔✔14 funadmental needs - ✔✔breathing, eat, drink, eliminate, move & maintain
posture, sleep & rest, dress & undress, maintain body temp, keep clean, avoid danger,
communicate, worship, work, play and learn
✔✔Madeleine Leininger - cultural care diversity & universality theory - ✔✔P- Human
beings are caring & capable of feeling concern E- *none*
H- a state of well being that is culturally defined, valued & practiced
N- uses problem solving approach, 3 models of action- see next card
✔✔3 models of action in Leininger's theory - ✔✔culture care preservation, culture care
accomidation, and culture care re-patterning
✔✔Orem's self care theory- Dorothea E. Orem - ✔✔P- a unity who can be viewed as
functioning biologically, symbolically & socially, and who initiates & performs on thier
own to maintain health and well being.
H- Well being is used in the sense of the person's percieved condition of existance.
✔✔Orem's theory regarding Nursing . - ✔✔Nursing is a deliberate action, a function of
the practical intelligence of nurses & action to bring mundanely desirable conditions
✔✔Roger's science of unitary human beings- Martha E. Rogers - ✔✔P- Different from
the sum of its parts. Continous repatterning.
E- Each is specific to its given human field.
H- + health= wellness.
✔✔Roger's theory regarding Nursing - ✔✔A humanistic science dedicated to
compassionate concern with maintaining & promoting health, preventing illness, &
caring for & rehabilitating the sick and disabled.
✔✔Roy's 4 modes of adaption based on - ✔✔physiologic needs, self-concept, role
function, and interdependence
✔✔Watson's human caring theory- Jean Watson - ✔✔P- person is greater than &
different from the sum of parts. Individuality is important.
H- high level of physical, menatl, and social functioning.
E- social, cultural and spiritual influences of society. Sets goals
✔✔Watson's theory re: nursing- - ✔✔Nursing combines the research process witht he
problem solving approach & is concerned with promoting and restoring health,
preventing illness & caring for the sick
✔✔King's goal attainment theory- Imogene King - ✔✔P- 3 interacting systems, the
personal systems is unified complex whole self who percieves, thinks, desires, imagines
& decides, identifies goals & selects means to achieve it.
