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Caring means that person, events, projects and things matter to people. It reveals stress and coping options. Caring creates responsibility. It is an inherent feature of Nursing practice. It helps the nurse assist clients to recover in the face of the illness: A. Benner B. Watson C. Leininger D. Swanson
Answer A, Benner Explanation not offered?
Which of the following is NOT an attribute of a professional? A. Concerned with quantity. B. Self directed C. committed to spirit of inquiry D. Independent
Answer A, Concerned with Quantity Explanation: A professional is concerned with quality and not quantity. In nursing, we have methods of quality assurance and control to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing care. Nurses, are never concerned with quantity of care provided.
What best describes nurses as a care provider? A. Determine client's need B. Provide direct nursing care C. help client recognize and cope with stressful psychological situation. D. Works in combined effort with all those involved in patient's care.
Answer A, Determine client's need Explanation: You can never provide nursing care if you don't know what are the needs of the client. How can you provide an effective postural drainage if you do not know where is the bulk of the client's secretion. Therefore, the best description of a care provider is the accurate and prompt determination of the client's need to be able to render an appropriate nursing care.
The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health that he would perform unaided if he has the necessary strength, will knowledge, and do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible. A. Henderson B. Abdellah C. Levin D. Peplau
Answer A, Henderson Explanation: Remember this definition and associate it with Virginia Henderson. Henderson also describes the Nature of Nursing theory. She identified 14 basic needs of the client. She describes nursing roles as: Substitutive: Doing everything for the client; Supplementary: Helping the client; and Complementary: Working with the client. Breathing normally, eliminating waste, eating and drinking adequately, worship and play are some of the base needs according to her.
Nursing is a unique profession, concerned with all the variables affecting an individual's response to stressors, which are intra, inter and extra personal in nature: A. Neuman B. Johnson C. Watson D. Parse
Answer A, Neuman Explanation: Neuman divided stressors as either intra, inter and extra personal in nature. she said that Nursing is concerned with eliminating these stressors to obtain a maximum level of wellness. The nurse helps the client through Primary, Secondary and Tertiary prevention modes.
The act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recover is theorized by: A. Nightingale B. Benner C. Swanson D. King
Answer A, Nightingale Explanation: Florence Nightingale do not believe in the Germ Theory, and perhaps this was her biggest mistake. Yet, her theory was the first in nursing. She believed that manipulation of the environment that includes appropriate noise, nutrition, hygiene, light, comfort, sanitation etc. could provide the client's body the nurturance it needs for repair.
What type of patient care model is the most common for student nurses and private duty nurses? A. Total patient care B. Team nursing C. Primary Nursing D. Case management
Answer A, Total Patient Care Explanation This is also known as case nursing. it si a method of nursing care herein, one nurse is assigned to one patient for the delivery of total care. These are the method use by nursing students. Private duty nurses and those in critical or isolation units.
The nurse questions a doctors order of Morphine sulfate 50 mg, IM for a client with pancreatitis. Which role best fit that statement? A. Change agent B. Client advocate C. Case manager D. collaborator
Answer B, Client Advocate Explanation: As a client's advocate, nurses are to protect the client's rights and promotes what is best for them. Know that morphine causes spasm of the Sphincter of Oddi and will lead to further increase in the client's pain, the nurse should know that the best treatment option for the client was not provided and intervene to provide the best possible care.
Which of the following is NOT TRUE about profession according to Marie Jahoda? A. A profession is an organization of an occupational group based on the application of special knowledge. B. It serves specific interest of a group. C. It is altruistic D. Quality of work is of greater importance than the rewards.
Answer B, It serves specific interest of a group Explanation: A profession should serve the whole community and not just a specific interest of a group. All other choices are correct.
According to her, Nursing is a helping or assisting profession to persons who are wholly or partly dependent or when those who are supposedly caring for them are no longer able to give care: A. Henderson B. Orem C. Swanson D. Neuman
Answer B, Oren Explanation: In self care deficit theory, Nursing is defined as helping or assistive profession to person who are wholly or partly dependent or when people who are to give care to them are no longer available. Self care are the activities that a person do for himself to maintain health, life and well being.
This is the distinctive individual qualities that differentiate a person to another: A. Philosophy B. Personality C. Charm D. Character
Answer B, Personality Explanation: Personality are the qualities that make us different from each other. These are impressions that we made, or the footprints that we leave behind. this is the result of the integration of one's tales, behavior, appearance mood, character, morals and impulses into one harmonious whole. Philosophy is the basic truth that fuel our soul an give our life a purpose, it shapes the acts of a person's character. Charm is to attract other people to be a change agent. Character is our moral values and belief that guides our actions in life.
Caring is healing, it is communicated through the consciousness of the nurse to the individual being cared for. It allows access to higher human spirit: A. Benner B. Watson C. Leininger D. Swanson
Answer B, Watson Explanation: The deepest and spiritual definition of caring came from Jean Watson. for her, caring expands the limits of openness and allows access to higher human spirit.
The most unique characteristic of nursing as a profession is? A. Education B. Theory C. Caring D. Autonomy
Answer C, Caring Explanation: Caring and caring alone, is the most unique quality of the Nursing Profession. It is the one the delineates nursing from other professions.
These are nursing intervention that requires knowledge, skills and expertise of multiple health professionals. A. Dependent B. Independent C. Interdependent D. Intradependent
Answer C, Interdependent Explanations: Interdependent functions are those that needs expertise and skills of multiple health professionals.
Caring is the essence and central unifying, a dominant domain that distinguishes nursing from other health disciplines. Care is an essential human need: A. Benner B. Watson C. Leininger D. Swanson
Answer C, Leininger Explanation: There are many theorist that describes nursing as Care. the most popular was Jean Watson's Human Caring Model. But this question pertains to Leiningers' definition of caring. CUD I LIE IN GER ( Could I lie in There). si the mnemonics I am using not to get confused. C - Central U - Unifying D - Dominant Doman
For her, Nursing is a theoretical system of Knowledge that prescribes a process of analysis and action related to care of the ill person: A. King B. Henderson C. Roy D. Meininger
Answer C, Roy Explanation: Remember the word "theoretical" for Callista Roy. Nursing is a theoretical body of knowledge that prescribes analysis and action to care for an ill person. Roy introduced the Adaptation Model and viewed a person as bio-psychosocial being. She believed that by adaptation, a person can maintain homeostasis.
Refers to the moral values and beliefs that are used as guides to personal behavior and actions: A. Philosophy B. Personality C. Charm D. Character
Answer D, Character Explanation: not offered.
The four major concepts in nursing theory are the: A. Person, Environment, Nurse, Health B. Nurse, person, Environment, Cure C. Promotive, Preventive, Curative, Rehabilitative D. Person, Environment, Nursing, Health
Answer D, Person, Environment, Nursing, Health Explanation: Theorist always describes the nursing profession by first defining what is Nursing, followed by the Person, Environment, and Health Concept. The most popular theory was perhaps Nightingale's. She defined nursing as the utilization of the person's environment to assist him towards recovery. She defined the person as somebody who has a reparative capabilities mediated and enhanced by factors in his environment. She describes the environment as something that would facilitate the person's reparative process and identified different factors like sanitation, noise, etc. that affects a person's reparative state.
As a nurse manager, which of the following best describes this function? A. Initiate modification on client's lifestyle B. Protect client's right C. Coordinates the activities of other members of the health team in managing patient care. D. Provide in service education programs, use accurate nursing audit, formulate philosophy and vision of the institution.
Answer D, Provide service education programs, Use accurate nursing audit, formulate philosophy and vision of the institution. Explanation: A refers to being a change agent. B. is a role of a patient advocate. C is a case manager while D basically summarized function of a nurse manager.
Caring involves 5 processes: KNOWING, BEING WITH, DOING FOR, ENABLING and MAINTAINING BELIEF: A. Benner B. Watson C. Leininger D. Swanson
Answer D, Swanson Explanation: caring according to Swanson involves 5 processes. Knowing the means understanding the client. Being with emphasize the Physical presence of the nurse for the patient. doing for means doing things for the patient when he is incapable of doing it for himself. Enabling means helping client transcend maturational and developmental stressors in life while Maintaining belief is the ability of the Nurse to inculcate meaning t these events.
