Prep U Ch. 2 NURS
A nurse caring for patients in a hospital setting focuses on ill patients as the center of all nursing activities performed daily. The nurse also provides care based on helping patients to adapt to the hospital environment. This nurse is following the principles of:
Myra E. Levine
There are four common concepts in nursing theory. While all concepts are important, the focus of nursing is always on which of the following?
Person
A nurse providing care for patients has a personal philosophy that nursing interventions should be instituted for patients when they demonstrate ineffective adaptive responses. This nurse's philosophy is based on the theory of:
Sister Callista Roy
The nursing instructor asks a group of students to identify a theory that describes how to break whole things up into parts and learn how those parts work together. A student correctly identifies this as which theory?
Systems Theory
A nurse who works in a pediatric practice assesses the developmental level of children of various ages to determine their psychosocial development. These assessments are based on the work of:
Erikson
In nursing class the instructor asks the students about the nursing research process. The student identifies the first nurse to collect data on clients as which of the following?
Florence Nightingale
Who of the following is considered to be the first nursing theorist who conceptualized nursing in terms of manipulating the environment?
Florence Nightingale
One of the primary focuses of nursing research is to do what?
Generate knowledge to guide practice
A nurse researcher must decide on the method for conducting the research. The researcher that plans to emphasize collection of numerical data and analysis would select which of the following methods of research?
Quantitative Research
How would a student nurse define a conceptual framework?
A group if interrelated objects that follow a pattern
The nursing instructor asks a group of students to identify a theory that describes, explains, predicts, and controls outcomes in nursing practice. One student correctly identifies this theory as what?
Nursing Theory
A nurse observes that the past five patients referred from a certain community clinic have been treated for drug and/or alcohol overdose. Based on this information, the nurse assumes that the clinic specializes in the treatment of substance abuse. This is an example of what type of reasoning?
Inductive Reasoning
A nursing student is reading a research article from a nursing journal. The student is aware that the opening paragraph summarizing the article (and the findings of the research) is a good place to start. What part of the article is the nursing student reading?
Abstract
A nurse is completing a family assessment on a routine home health visit. The parents have a child with a severe peanut allergy. The mother states that she does not purchase any foods with peanut or peanut oil for her family. The other children are allowed to have foods containing peanuts while they are at school and visiting with friends and family. The nurse would conclude that which of the following theories would most like be the basis for this family's functioning?
Adaptation Theory
A nursing student understands which of the following is true of concepts?
Concepts describe objects, properties, and events and relationships among them
A mother has brought her 6-year-old child into the clinic. The mother is concerned that her child does not seem to skip as well as the other children in her class. In planning assessments and care for this child, the nurse might choose which theory as a foundation for decision making?
Developmental Theory
A nurse is completing a family assessment on a routine home health visit. There is a mother, father, and three children ages 2, 4, and 6 years of age. She watches the children individually as they play and interact with one another. She compares each child with the norms established for the age groups and determines and they are all within normal limits for their ages. The nurse would be utilizing which of the following theories as the basis for this part of the family assessment?
Developmental Theory
When looking at a model for evidence-based practice, what is the final step of the process?
Evaluating Practice Change
The nursing student studying research exhibits an understanding when informing the instructor that which of the following is the bridge between theory and practice?
Evidence-Based Research
When delivering nursing care, which of the following theories assists nurses in prioritizing the care to be implemented?
Maslow's Theory
Nurses in an ICU noticed that their clients required fewer interventions for pain when the ICU was quiet. They then asked a researcher to design a study about the effects of noise on the pain levels of hospitalized clients. How does this demonstrate the ultimate goal of expanding the nursing body of knowledge?
Nursing research helps improve ways to promote and maintain health
Of the following, which best explains the importance of theoretic frameworks?
Theoretical Frameworks advance nursing knowledge and practice
A nurse is discussing dietary issues with a Latino client in the clinic. The client states, "My grandmother always told me that I needed to include beans in my diet so that my muscles would grow." The information that the client is expressing is known as what?
Traditional Knowledge
The nursing instructor is explaining sources of knowledge to a group of nursing students. She says, "Some knowledge is passed from one generation to another." One of the students correctly describes this source as being what?
Traditional Knowledge
A nurse is using the quantitative research process to study the cause of hospital-acquired infections and how to prevent them. Which actions are examples of the components of this process?
• The nurse collects data from subjects in the study. • The nurse formulates a hypothesis and variables in the study
