mastery quiz 2 NUR100
The nursing instructor asks a group of students to identify a theory that describes how humans adjust to life with other living things and with the environment. One student correctly identifies this as which theory?
Adaptation theory reference; Taylor, C., et al. Fundamentals of Nursing, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2015, Chapter 2: Theory, Research, and Evidence-Based Practice, p. 27.
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 Reference: Taylor, C., et al. Fundamentals of Nursing, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2015,Chapter 2: Theory, Research and Evidenced-Based Practice, p. 34.
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 reference: Taylor, C., et al. Fundamentals of Nursing, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2015, Chapter 2: Theory, Research, and Evidence-Based Practice, p. 27.
Who is considered to be the first nursing theorist who conceptualized nursing in terms of manipulating the environment?
Florence Nightingale reference; Taylor, C., et al. Fundamentals of Nursing, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2015, p. 26.
A nurse is completing a family assessment on a routine home health visit. The parents have a special needs child along with six other children and the older siblings help out with the younger. Which theory would most likely be the basis for this family's functioning?
General Systems Theory Taylor, C., et al. Fundamentals of Nursing, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2015, Chapter 2: Theory, Research, and Evidence-Based Practice, pp. 27, 40.
Evidence-based care emphasizes decision making based on the best available evidence and:
use of outcome studies to guide decisions. Taylor, C., et al. Fundamentals of Nursing, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2015,
