ISU Nursing 208 Exam Questions With Complete Solutions
8 step model for decision making Correct Answers Eight-step
model
Gathering relevant information
Stating the practical problem
Identifying the ethical issues and questions
Selecting the ethical principles and/or theoretical frameworks to
be considered
Conducting an analysis and preparing a justification
Considering one or more counterarguments
Exploring the options for action
Selecting, completing, and evaluating the action
A nurse is using a caring-healing paradigm with 10 carative
factors to plan nursing care. Which nurse developed this
philosophy?
1. Patricia Benner
2. Jean Watson
3. Virginia Henderson
4. Nola Pender Correct Answers ANSWER AND
RATIONALE: 2. Jean Watson. Watson states that her original
work was organized around 10 carative factors and believes that
if an individual works from a caring-healing paradigm, then it
must be lived out in daily life through a commitment to self-
care.
1. Patricia Benner's philosophy (from Novice to Expert) focuses
on clinical nursing practice and her belief that nursing
knowledge accrues over time.
,3. Virginia Henderson is well known for the definition of
nursing, which states that nursing's primary responsibility is "to
assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those
activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to a peaceful
death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary
strength, will or knowledge and to do this in such a way as to
help him gain independence as rapidly as possible" (Henderson,
1966, p. 7).
4. Nola J. Pender developed the Health Promotion Model based
on the belief that the patient assumes an active role in managing
his or her own health.
A nurse wants to use Imogene King's model to plan nursing
care. Which principle should the nurse remember?
1. "The interpersonal relationship occurs in phases known as
preorientation, orientation, working, and termination."
2. "Nursing practice will be guided towards three levels of
prevention: primary, secondary, and tertiary."
3. "Human beings are the focus of nursing care, and the goal is
health for individuals, families, communities, and the world."
4. "Conservation is guided in four areas: energy, structural
integrity, personal integrity, and social integrity." Correct
Answers ANSWER AND RATIONALE: 3. "Human beings
are the focus of nursing care, and the goal is health for
individuals, families, communities, and the world." According to
Imogene King (1996), human beings are the focus of nursing
care, and the goal of the framework is health for individuals,
families, communities, and the world.
, 1. Peplau believed that the interpersonal relationship occurs in
interlocking and overlapping phases known as preorientation,
orientation, working, and termination.
2. The Healthcare Systems Model by Betty Neuman guides
nursing practice at three levels of prevention: primary,
secondary, and tertiary.
4. Conservation is guided by four principles: conservation of
energy, conservation of structural integrity, conservation of
personal integrity, and conservation of social integrity according
to Myra Levine.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Correct
Answers Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Culture of safety, or a commitment on both individual and
organizational levels to accept accountability to attain
excellence in performance by directing resources toward the
problems
attitudes Correct Answers curious/opne-minded/non-
judgmental...
criteria Correct Answers used to test whether instruments,
tools, machines, and research designs will give accurate results.
define accountability Correct Answers Willingness to assume
responsibility and accept the consequences for your actions
define administrative law Correct Answers Controls the
administrative operations of government
define autonomy Correct Answers Autonomy
8 step model for decision making Correct Answers Eight-step
model
Gathering relevant information
Stating the practical problem
Identifying the ethical issues and questions
Selecting the ethical principles and/or theoretical frameworks to
be considered
Conducting an analysis and preparing a justification
Considering one or more counterarguments
Exploring the options for action
Selecting, completing, and evaluating the action
A nurse is using a caring-healing paradigm with 10 carative
factors to plan nursing care. Which nurse developed this
philosophy?
1. Patricia Benner
2. Jean Watson
3. Virginia Henderson
4. Nola Pender Correct Answers ANSWER AND
RATIONALE: 2. Jean Watson. Watson states that her original
work was organized around 10 carative factors and believes that
if an individual works from a caring-healing paradigm, then it
must be lived out in daily life through a commitment to self-
care.
1. Patricia Benner's philosophy (from Novice to Expert) focuses
on clinical nursing practice and her belief that nursing
knowledge accrues over time.
,3. Virginia Henderson is well known for the definition of
nursing, which states that nursing's primary responsibility is "to
assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those
activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to a peaceful
death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary
strength, will or knowledge and to do this in such a way as to
help him gain independence as rapidly as possible" (Henderson,
1966, p. 7).
4. Nola J. Pender developed the Health Promotion Model based
on the belief that the patient assumes an active role in managing
his or her own health.
A nurse wants to use Imogene King's model to plan nursing
care. Which principle should the nurse remember?
1. "The interpersonal relationship occurs in phases known as
preorientation, orientation, working, and termination."
2. "Nursing practice will be guided towards three levels of
prevention: primary, secondary, and tertiary."
3. "Human beings are the focus of nursing care, and the goal is
health for individuals, families, communities, and the world."
4. "Conservation is guided in four areas: energy, structural
integrity, personal integrity, and social integrity." Correct
Answers ANSWER AND RATIONALE: 3. "Human beings
are the focus of nursing care, and the goal is health for
individuals, families, communities, and the world." According to
Imogene King (1996), human beings are the focus of nursing
care, and the goal of the framework is health for individuals,
families, communities, and the world.
, 1. Peplau believed that the interpersonal relationship occurs in
interlocking and overlapping phases known as preorientation,
orientation, working, and termination.
2. The Healthcare Systems Model by Betty Neuman guides
nursing practice at three levels of prevention: primary,
secondary, and tertiary.
4. Conservation is guided by four principles: conservation of
energy, conservation of structural integrity, conservation of
personal integrity, and conservation of social integrity according
to Myra Levine.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Correct
Answers Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Culture of safety, or a commitment on both individual and
organizational levels to accept accountability to attain
excellence in performance by directing resources toward the
problems
attitudes Correct Answers curious/opne-minded/non-
judgmental...
criteria Correct Answers used to test whether instruments,
tools, machines, and research designs will give accurate results.
define accountability Correct Answers Willingness to assume
responsibility and accept the consequences for your actions
define administrative law Correct Answers Controls the
administrative operations of government
define autonomy Correct Answers Autonomy
