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Henderson identified 14 components of basic nursing care that reflect needs pertaining to personal hygiene and healthful living. These components of basic nursing care include all of the following EXCEPT:
Do not involve the patient in decisions of care so that the patient may get better rest
The name for the boundaries or focus of a discipline is:
Domain
Cultivating awareness about how social, political and economic forces shape assumptions and opinions about knowledge and truth is defined as:
Emancipatory knowing
How we come to know the science of nursing and other disciplines that are used in nursing practice is described as:
Empirical knowing
How we come to know the moral component affecting choices within the complexity of health care that guide day-to-day actions in nursing practice is described as:
Ethical knowing
Wiedenbach, Henderson, and Hall made a significant impact on nursing theory in the 20th Century because they each
Examined nursing practice and explored nurse-patient interactions, Defined ways nursing is thought about, practiced, and research, Used nursing practice as the basis for their theory development.
1. The purpose of theory is to:
Explain exxperience, describe relationships, project outcomes
A significant value of the contributions of Wiedenbach, Henderson, and Hall is that each of them was concerned with the unique aspects of nursing's supportive role to physician medical practice.
F
Early nursing theorists relied on definitions of theory from nursing practice to guide the development of theories within nursing.
F
Historically, nursing has always been distinctly separate from the medical model.
F
It is not necessary or desirable for the study and use of nursing theory to have roots in the everyday practice of nursing.
F
Science generally evolves as a smooth, regular, continuing path of knowledge development over time.
F
The first nursing theorist who identified the importance of theory in nursing was:
Florence Nightingale
2. Members of a community of scholars share a commitment to all of the following except:
Geographic location.
The primary purpose of nursing theory is to:
Guide the thinking about, being, and doing of nursing.
Which of the following theorists founded the Loeb Center?
Hall
In 1990 the Sigma Theta Tau (International Honor Society of Nursing) library was named in honor of which of the following nursing theorists?
Henderson
Which of the following theorists coined the term "basic nursing care"?
Henderson
In Nightingale's mind, the specific "scientific" activity of nursing that was the central element in health care, without which medicine and surgery would be ineffective, is which of the following:
Maintaining hygiene
The most abstract level of knowledge is the
Metaparadigm
Theories that include specific concepts, are broad enough to be useful in complex situations, and can be empirically tested are called:
Middle-range theories
Based on the assumption that nursing has a unique function, Henderson believed which of the following?
Nursing independently initiates and controls activities related to basic nursing care
Responses to guiding questions about theory in practice can be found in the following resources
Nursing literature, audiovisual sources, electronic sources
The question "Is the theory used to guide programs of nursing education?" relates to which of the following areas of the theory guide?
Overall theory significance
Striving to know the self and to actualize authentic relationships between the nurse and the one nursed is defined as:
Personal knowing.
Statements of enduring values or beliefs are considered:
Philosophies
Theories that have the most limited scope and level of abstraction that are useful in within a specific range of nursing situations are called:
Practice-level theories
The guide for the selection of nursing theory presented in your text is a set of questions that facilitate reflection and exploration in the study of nursing theory that can lead to the selection of a nursing theory for use in your practice.
T
Theories are not discovered in nature but are human inventions
T
Theories of any professional discipline are useless if they do not have an impact on practice.
T
According to Nightingale, a nurse is defined as:
Any woman who had charge of the personal health of somebody, whether well or sick.
Nursing theories:
Are invented by humans
The scope of nursing practice is:
Continually being expanded.
Nightingale defined a nurse as any woman who had "charge of the personal health of somebody" whether well, as in caring for babies and children, or sick, as an "invalid" (Nightingale, 1860/1969). It was assumed that: A. All women, at one time or another in their lives, would nurse. B. All women needed to know the laws of health. C. Nursing proper, or "sick" nursing, was both an art and a science and required organized, formal education to care for those suffering from disease. D. All of the above
D
The dependence of nursing theory development on human imagination is an attribute of nursing as a(n):
Discipline
Nursing practice is essential for all of the following EXCEPT
Discovering nursing theory
According to Nightingale, health is viewed as:
An additive process, the result of environmental, physical, and psychological factors.
Nightingale proposed nursing as:
An art and a science
The patient is at the center of the Nightingale model and incorporates:
A & B
Cultural feminism is defined as:
A belief in inherent gender differences
Nursing theorists and nurses in practice:
Think and work with the same phenomena
Wiedenbach explains her prescriptive theory in her book, Meeting the Realities in Clinical Teaching (1969). Select the answer that represents the BEST explanation of her perspective theory.
Account must be taken of the motivating factors that influence the nurse not only in doing what she does but also in doing it the way she does it with the realities that exist in the situation in which she is functioning.
The goal of nursing as described by Nightingale is to:
Assist the patient in his or her retention of "vital powers" by meeting his or her needs, thus putting the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon.
The question "What nursing society's share and support work of the theory?" relates to which
Authoritative sources
Nightingale isolated five environmental components essential to an individual's health. Select the correct grouping from the following:
Clean air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness, light
The basic building blocks of theories are:
Concepts and statements of relationships
In the mid-19th century, there were two competing theories regarding the nature and origin of disease. These competing thoeries were:
Contagionism and quarantine
Books and periodicals are examples of:
Heritage of literature
The question "What does the nurse attend to when practicing nursing?" relates to which of the following areas of the theory guide?
How nursing is conceptualized
The main purpose of nursing theory is to:
Improve nursing practice
Lydia Hall drew on her expertise of which of the following practice areas in developing her Care, Cure, and Core Model?
Rehabilitation
The study of nursing theory:
Requires a continuing commitment
____________________ and ____________________ structures are essential to any
Syntactical and conceptual
Every discipline has a unique focus that directs inquiry and distinguishes it from other fields of study.
T
Key ways to study nursing include analysis and evaluation.
T
Lydia Hall believed CARE was the sole function of nurses, whereas CORE and CURE were shared with other members of the health team
T
One criterion for hospitals seeking magnet hospital status is selection of a theoretical model for nursing practice.
T
One of the most urgent issues facing the discipline of nursing is the artificial separation of theory and practice.
T
The best test of any nursing theory is its usefulness in professional practice.
T
Wiedenbach proposes that there are three ingredients essential to the prescriptive theory. Select the ONE answer that is NOT one of these essential ingredients.
The reality of nursing is that the charge of the nurse is to implement the orders prescribed by the physician.
Nurses working together as colleagues often realize that:
They share the same values and beliefs
A paradigm is defined as a:
Wordview, general framework, set of shared perspective held by members of a discipline.
