NURS 208 Chpt 4 NCLEX Questions With
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D - ANSWER Nursing's paradigm includes:
A) Health, person, environment, and theory
B) Concepts, theory, health, and environment
C) Nurses, physicians, models, and client needs
D) The person, health, environment/situation, and nursing
C - ANSWER Which of the following statements about prescriptive theories is
accurate?
A) They describe phenomena.
B) They have the ability to explain nursing phenomena.
C) They reflect practice and address specific phenomena.
D) They provide a structural framework for broad abstract ideas.
B - ANSWER A theory is a set of concepts, definitions, relationships, and
assumptions that:
A) Formulates legislation
B) Explains a phenomenon
C) Measures nursing functions
D) Reflects the domain of nursing practice
D - ANSWER There is a contemporary move toward addressing nursing as a
science or as evidenced-based practice. This suggests that:
A) One theory will guide nursing practice.
B) Scientists will make nursing decisions.
C) Theories will be tested to describe or predict client outcomes.
D) Nursing will base client care on the practice of other sciences.
C - ANSWER To practice in today's health care environment, nurses need a
strong scientific knowledge base in nursing and other disciplines, such as the
physical, social, and behavioral sciences. This relates to which of the following?
A) Systems theories
B) Developmental theories
C) Interdisciplinary theories
D) Health and wellness model
B - ANSWER Which theories describe an orderly process beginning with
conception and continuing through death?
Complete Solutions
D - ANSWER Nursing's paradigm includes:
A) Health, person, environment, and theory
B) Concepts, theory, health, and environment
C) Nurses, physicians, models, and client needs
D) The person, health, environment/situation, and nursing
C - ANSWER Which of the following statements about prescriptive theories is
accurate?
A) They describe phenomena.
B) They have the ability to explain nursing phenomena.
C) They reflect practice and address specific phenomena.
D) They provide a structural framework for broad abstract ideas.
B - ANSWER A theory is a set of concepts, definitions, relationships, and
assumptions that:
A) Formulates legislation
B) Explains a phenomenon
C) Measures nursing functions
D) Reflects the domain of nursing practice
D - ANSWER There is a contemporary move toward addressing nursing as a
science or as evidenced-based practice. This suggests that:
A) One theory will guide nursing practice.
B) Scientists will make nursing decisions.
C) Theories will be tested to describe or predict client outcomes.
D) Nursing will base client care on the practice of other sciences.
C - ANSWER To practice in today's health care environment, nurses need a
strong scientific knowledge base in nursing and other disciplines, such as the
physical, social, and behavioral sciences. This relates to which of the following?
A) Systems theories
B) Developmental theories
C) Interdisciplinary theories
D) Health and wellness model
B - ANSWER Which theories describe an orderly process beginning with
conception and continuing through death?
