NURS 312 Midterm
Top-Scoring Exam Questions with Detailed Solutions
Who proposed a gender differentiation developmental theory that female development does
not follow a progression of stages but based on experiences within relationships?
A. Anna Freud
B. Carl Rogers
C. Carol Gilligan
D. Abraham Maslow - C
Which theory attempted to reconstruct the personality by examining free associations and the
interpretation of dreams?
A. cognitive-behaviour therapy
B. psychoanalysis
C. interpersonal relations
D. transference - B
When integrating the Neuman systems model while caring for a client with a mood disorder, a
nurse would focus on what about the client?
A. behaviours
B. relationships
C. self-care activities
D. stressors - D
,Interpersonal Relations: - -Hildegard Peplau
-The nurse is responsible to exhibit an empathetic linkage, where they are able to feel the
feelings experienced
-The nurse should also be aware of Peplau's stages of anxiety and their associated behavioural
cues that Paplau calls "relief behaviours". These behaviours are generated by unmet self-system
security needs.
-Stages of the therapeutic nurse-client relationship: Orientation, identification, exploitation,
resolution
-Stages of Anxiety:
>Mild: positive state of heightened awareness and sharpened senses, allowing the person to learn
new behaviours and solve problems. >Moderate anxiety: decreased perceptual field. The person
can learn a new behaviour or solve problems only with assistance.
>Severe anxiety: feeling of dread and terror. Person cannot be redirected to a task. Has
physiologic symptoms of tachycardia, diaphoresis and chest pain
>Panic anxiety: loss of rational thought, delusions, hallucinations, and complete physical
immobility and muteness. Person may bolt and run aimlessly, often exposing themselves to
injury.
Dynamic-Nurse-Patient Relationship - -Nursing theory
-Jean Orlando
-Involves the pt's behaviour, the nurse's reaction and anything that does not relieve the distress of
the pt, which Orlando attributed to the pt's inability to meet or communicate his/her needs
Human becoming - -Nursing theory
-Rosemarie Rizzo Parse
-Quality of life
-3 Structures:
(1) Meaning: structuring meaning is the imagining valuing of language
(2) Rhythmicity: Configuring rhythmical patterns of relation is the revealing-concealing and
enabling-limiting of connecting-separating
, (3) Transcendence: Cotrascending with possible is the powering and originating of transforming.
-The nurse can support the family's exploration of paradoxical feelings (guilt and powerlessness)
Primacy of Caring: - -Patricia Benner
-Nursing theory
-nursing a caring relationship
-environment situates meaning. And people enter situations with their own set of meanings,
habits, and perspectives and their interpretations affect the way they respond in these situations
Caring - -Jean Watson
-caring is the foundation of nursing
-trusting relationship, congruence, empathy, nonpossessive warmth, effective communication
Tidal Model of Mental Health Recovery and Reclamation: - -Philip Barker
-Nursing Theory
-Reclamation of one's own life story is necessary for recovery (nurse helps pt. to discover,
identify and address problems affecting them)
-Change: nurse's role is shaped by the changing needs of the pt. across the continuum of care
-domains of self, world and others
Health Promotion: The McGill Model of Nursing - -four major concepts: health, family
(person), collaboration and learning
-Coping and development are health processes that facilitate functioning and satisfaction
Goal Attainment: - -Imogen M. King
-Nursing theory
-Goal oriented and purposeful; reacting to stressors, viewed as an open system interacting with
the environment
Top-Scoring Exam Questions with Detailed Solutions
Who proposed a gender differentiation developmental theory that female development does
not follow a progression of stages but based on experiences within relationships?
A. Anna Freud
B. Carl Rogers
C. Carol Gilligan
D. Abraham Maslow - C
Which theory attempted to reconstruct the personality by examining free associations and the
interpretation of dreams?
A. cognitive-behaviour therapy
B. psychoanalysis
C. interpersonal relations
D. transference - B
When integrating the Neuman systems model while caring for a client with a mood disorder, a
nurse would focus on what about the client?
A. behaviours
B. relationships
C. self-care activities
D. stressors - D
,Interpersonal Relations: - -Hildegard Peplau
-The nurse is responsible to exhibit an empathetic linkage, where they are able to feel the
feelings experienced
-The nurse should also be aware of Peplau's stages of anxiety and their associated behavioural
cues that Paplau calls "relief behaviours". These behaviours are generated by unmet self-system
security needs.
-Stages of the therapeutic nurse-client relationship: Orientation, identification, exploitation,
resolution
-Stages of Anxiety:
>Mild: positive state of heightened awareness and sharpened senses, allowing the person to learn
new behaviours and solve problems. >Moderate anxiety: decreased perceptual field. The person
can learn a new behaviour or solve problems only with assistance.
>Severe anxiety: feeling of dread and terror. Person cannot be redirected to a task. Has
physiologic symptoms of tachycardia, diaphoresis and chest pain
>Panic anxiety: loss of rational thought, delusions, hallucinations, and complete physical
immobility and muteness. Person may bolt and run aimlessly, often exposing themselves to
injury.
Dynamic-Nurse-Patient Relationship - -Nursing theory
-Jean Orlando
-Involves the pt's behaviour, the nurse's reaction and anything that does not relieve the distress of
the pt, which Orlando attributed to the pt's inability to meet or communicate his/her needs
Human becoming - -Nursing theory
-Rosemarie Rizzo Parse
-Quality of life
-3 Structures:
(1) Meaning: structuring meaning is the imagining valuing of language
(2) Rhythmicity: Configuring rhythmical patterns of relation is the revealing-concealing and
enabling-limiting of connecting-separating
, (3) Transcendence: Cotrascending with possible is the powering and originating of transforming.
-The nurse can support the family's exploration of paradoxical feelings (guilt and powerlessness)
Primacy of Caring: - -Patricia Benner
-Nursing theory
-nursing a caring relationship
-environment situates meaning. And people enter situations with their own set of meanings,
habits, and perspectives and their interpretations affect the way they respond in these situations
Caring - -Jean Watson
-caring is the foundation of nursing
-trusting relationship, congruence, empathy, nonpossessive warmth, effective communication
Tidal Model of Mental Health Recovery and Reclamation: - -Philip Barker
-Nursing Theory
-Reclamation of one's own life story is necessary for recovery (nurse helps pt. to discover,
identify and address problems affecting them)
-Change: nurse's role is shaped by the changing needs of the pt. across the continuum of care
-domains of self, world and others
Health Promotion: The McGill Model of Nursing - -four major concepts: health, family
(person), collaboration and learning
-Coping and development are health processes that facilitate functioning and satisfaction
Goal Attainment: - -Imogen M. King
-Nursing theory
-Goal oriented and purposeful; reacting to stressors, viewed as an open system interacting with
the environment
