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NURS 6700 Exam 1 Questions and
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Why is Florence Nightingale significant? - Answer✔✔-- Shaped and defined standards of nursing practice
- Advocates for nurses to think about patient and environment
- Collection of data (assessment) was for sake of saving person's life, promoting comfort, and increasing
health
What are the aims of nursing? - Answer✔✔-- Promote health
- Prevent illness
- Restore health
- Facilitate coping w/disability or death
What are the main domains (paradigms) of nursing theory? - Answer✔✔-- *Person (patient)*
- Health
- Environment
- Nursing
What is a paradigm? - Answer✔✔-Pattern of thought useful in describing the domain of a discipline.
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According to Watson's Transpersonal Caring Theory (1979), what is the goal of nursing? - Answer✔✔-
Promote health, restore patient to health, and prevent illness
According to Watson's Transpersonal Caring Theory (1979), what is the framework for practice? -
Answer✔✔-Involves the philosophy of caring, which is an interpersonal process of interventions to meet
human needs
According to Nightingale's Environmental Theory (1860), what is the goal of nursing? - Answer✔✔-
Facilitate the reparative process of the body by manipulating the patient's environment
According to Nightingale's Environmental Theory (1860), what is the framework for practice? -
Answer✔✔-Nurse manipulates patient's environment to include appropriate noise, nutrition, hygiene,
light, comfort, socialization, and hope
According to Peplau's Interpersonal Theory (1952), what is the goal of nursing? - Answer✔✔-Develop
interaction between nurse and patient
According to Peplau's Interpersonal Theory (1952), what is the framework for practice? - Answer✔✔-
Nursing is a significant, therapeutic, interpersonal process and health care systems should facilitate
interpersonal relationships
According to Peplau, what 3 phases characterize the nurse-patient relationship? - Answer✔✔-1)
orientation
2) working phase
3) termination
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According to Henderson's Theory (1955), what is the goal of nursing? - Answer✔✔-Work
interdependently with other health care workers to assist patient in gaining independence asap
According to Henderson's Theory (1955), what is the framework for practice? - Answer✔✔-Nurses help
the patient perform Henderson's 14 basic needs
According to Orem's Self-care Deficit Theory (1971), what is the goal of nursing? - Answer✔✔-Make the
patient as self-sufficient as possible and manage his/her health problems
According to Orem's Self-care Deficit Theory (1971), what is the framework for practice? - Answer✔✔-
Care is needed when patient is unable to fulfill biological, psychological, developmental, or social needs
According to Leininger's Theory (1978), what is the goal of nursing? - Answer✔✔-Provide the patient
with culturally specific nursing care
According to Neuman's Theory (1974), what is the goal of nursing? - Answer✔✔-Help individuals,
families, and groups attain maximal level of wellness by purposeful interventions
According to Neuman's theory (1974), what is the framework for practice? - Answer✔✔-Stress reduction
is goal of systems model and nursing actions are primary, secondary, or tertiary level of prevention.
According to Roy's Adaptation Theory (1970), what is the goal of nursing? - Answer✔✔-Identify types of
demands placed on a patient, assess adaptation to demands, and help patient adapt
According to Roy's Adaptation Theory (1970), what is the framework for practice? - Answer✔✔-All
individuals must adapt to following demands:
- physiological needs
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- positive self-concept
- social roles
- balance between dependence/independence
According to Brenner and Wrubel's Theory (1989), what is the goal of nursing? - Answer✔✔-Focus on
patient's need for caring to cope with stressors of illness
According to Brenner and Wrubel's Theory (1989), what is the framework for practice? - Answer✔✔-
Caring is essence of nursing and creates possibility for coping, enables connecting and showing concern
for others
How are nursing theories beneficial in practice? - Answer✔✔-They organize frameworks of nursing care
and provide critical thinking structures to guide clinical reasoning and problem solving.
What is the best way to search for evidence in scientific literature? - Answer✔✔-Form a PICOT question.
What is the P in PICOT? - Answer✔✔-Patient population of interest
/Identify patients by age, gender, ethnicity, and disease or health problem/
What is the I in PICOT? - Answer✔✔-Intervention of interest
/Which intervention is worthwhile to use in practice (e.g. treatment, diagnostic test, prognostic factor)/
What is the C in PICOT? - Answer✔✔-Comparison of interest
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