CONCEPTS OF NURSING EXAM MANUAL 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Developmental Theory - ✔✔Outlines the process of growth and development of
humans as orderly and predictable beginning with conception and ending with death
✔✔Types of Nursing Theories - ✔✔1.) Grand Theory
2.) Middle Range Theory
3.) Descriptive Theory
4.) Prescriptive Theory
✔✔Grand Theory - ✔✔-Broad in shape, complex
-Does not provide guidance for (specification through research) specific nursing
interventions but provides the structured framework for broad abstract ideas about
nursing
✔✔Middle-Range Theory - ✔✔-Are more limited in scope and are less abstract
-Address a specific phenomenon and reflect practice
-Phenomenon tends to cross differentiate using fields and reflect a wide variety of
nursing care situation
✔✔Descriptive Theory - ✔✔-Explain, relate, and could predict nursing phenomena
-Don't direct specific nursing activity but helps to explain client assessment
✔✔Prescriptive Theory - ✔✔-Address nursing interventions for a phenomenon and
predict the consequence of a specific nursing intervention
-Action oriented
✔✔Nursing Paradigm concepts - ✔✔1.) Person - Recipient of nursing care
2.) Environment - Internal and External surrounding that affect the client
3.) Health - Degree of wellness/wellbeing that the client experiences
4.) Nursing - Attributes, characters, and actions of the nurse proving care on behalf of/in
conjugation with the client
✔✔Concept - ✔✔Helps define the phenomenon
✔✔Phenomenon - ✔✔An aspect of reality that can be sensed or experienced
✔✔Definition - ✔✔General meaning of the concept
✔✔Assumption - ✔✔Explains the nature of the concepts, definitions, purposes, and
relationships
✔✔Person - ✔✔Recipient of the nursing care
, ✔✔Health - ✔✔Degree of well-being of the person
✔✔Environment - ✔✔Internal and external surroundings that affect the client
✔✔Nursing action - ✔✔Actions of the nurse providing care
✔✔Fresh Air, Pure Water, Efficient Drainage, Cleanliness, Light - ✔✔5 Environmental
Factors
✔✔Interpersonal Relations Model - ✔✔Explains the relation of the nurse and the patient
✔✔Nature of Nursing Model - ✔✔Emphasizes the basic human needs
✔✔Nursing Process Theory - ✔✔Reciprocal relationship between the client and the
nurse
✔✔Helping Art of Clinical Nursing - ✔✔Nursing is nurturing/caring for someone in a
motherly fashion
✔✔Care, Core, and Cure Model - ✔✔3 interlocking circles that represent aspects of the
patient
✔✔Conservation Model - ✔✔Adaptation, Wholeness, and Conservation
✔✔Problem Solving Approach - ✔✔Nursing centered services which are used to
determine patient's needs
✔✔Human-Human Relationship Model - ✔✔Humans are constantly faced with conflicts
and choices
✔✔Humanistic Nursing Theory - ✔✔Nurses dedicate themselves to helping others
✔✔Science of Unitary Human Beings - ✔✔Humans are dynamic energy fields and
cannot be reduced
✔✔Self-Care Deficit Theory - ✔✔Able to maintain health and control over their illness
✔✔Nueman Systems Model (Health Systems Model) - ✔✔Person is an open system
with various subsystems that can work together
✔✔Goal Attainment Theory - ✔✔Helping profession that assists an individual
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Developmental Theory - ✔✔Outlines the process of growth and development of
humans as orderly and predictable beginning with conception and ending with death
✔✔Types of Nursing Theories - ✔✔1.) Grand Theory
2.) Middle Range Theory
3.) Descriptive Theory
4.) Prescriptive Theory
✔✔Grand Theory - ✔✔-Broad in shape, complex
-Does not provide guidance for (specification through research) specific nursing
interventions but provides the structured framework for broad abstract ideas about
nursing
✔✔Middle-Range Theory - ✔✔-Are more limited in scope and are less abstract
-Address a specific phenomenon and reflect practice
-Phenomenon tends to cross differentiate using fields and reflect a wide variety of
nursing care situation
✔✔Descriptive Theory - ✔✔-Explain, relate, and could predict nursing phenomena
-Don't direct specific nursing activity but helps to explain client assessment
✔✔Prescriptive Theory - ✔✔-Address nursing interventions for a phenomenon and
predict the consequence of a specific nursing intervention
-Action oriented
✔✔Nursing Paradigm concepts - ✔✔1.) Person - Recipient of nursing care
2.) Environment - Internal and External surrounding that affect the client
3.) Health - Degree of wellness/wellbeing that the client experiences
4.) Nursing - Attributes, characters, and actions of the nurse proving care on behalf of/in
conjugation with the client
✔✔Concept - ✔✔Helps define the phenomenon
✔✔Phenomenon - ✔✔An aspect of reality that can be sensed or experienced
✔✔Definition - ✔✔General meaning of the concept
✔✔Assumption - ✔✔Explains the nature of the concepts, definitions, purposes, and
relationships
✔✔Person - ✔✔Recipient of the nursing care
, ✔✔Health - ✔✔Degree of well-being of the person
✔✔Environment - ✔✔Internal and external surroundings that affect the client
✔✔Nursing action - ✔✔Actions of the nurse providing care
✔✔Fresh Air, Pure Water, Efficient Drainage, Cleanliness, Light - ✔✔5 Environmental
Factors
✔✔Interpersonal Relations Model - ✔✔Explains the relation of the nurse and the patient
✔✔Nature of Nursing Model - ✔✔Emphasizes the basic human needs
✔✔Nursing Process Theory - ✔✔Reciprocal relationship between the client and the
nurse
✔✔Helping Art of Clinical Nursing - ✔✔Nursing is nurturing/caring for someone in a
motherly fashion
✔✔Care, Core, and Cure Model - ✔✔3 interlocking circles that represent aspects of the
patient
✔✔Conservation Model - ✔✔Adaptation, Wholeness, and Conservation
✔✔Problem Solving Approach - ✔✔Nursing centered services which are used to
determine patient's needs
✔✔Human-Human Relationship Model - ✔✔Humans are constantly faced with conflicts
and choices
✔✔Humanistic Nursing Theory - ✔✔Nurses dedicate themselves to helping others
✔✔Science of Unitary Human Beings - ✔✔Humans are dynamic energy fields and
cannot be reduced
✔✔Self-Care Deficit Theory - ✔✔Able to maintain health and control over their illness
✔✔Nueman Systems Model (Health Systems Model) - ✔✔Person is an open system
with various subsystems that can work together
✔✔Goal Attainment Theory - ✔✔Helping profession that assists an individual
