CHAPTER 2: NURSING THEORY

CHAPTER 2: NURSING THEORY

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. The nurse realizes that an appropriate example of a nursing theory is:

ANS:  C

The choice “nursing care is needed when people are affected by limitations that do not allow them to meet their self-care needs” explains a set of concepts and propositions that provide an orderly way to view phenomena which is the definition of a theory. The other choices do not provide an orderly way to view phenomena but rather are propositions which propose a relationship between concepts.

PTS:   1                    DIF:    Analysis         REF:   Components of the Theoretical Framework

2. The nurse is going to use a theory from another discipline. Which of the following would the nurse select?

ANS:  D

The nursing profession uses theories from other disciplines. Examples of non-nursing theories include basic human needs, theory of human development, and the general adaptation syndrome theory. Self-care deficit theory, the theory of the science of unitary human beings, and the theory of human caring are all examples of nursing theories.

PTS:   1                    DIF:    Application    REF:   Use of Theories from Other Disciplines

3. The nurse is utilizing the metaparadigm of nursing when planning care for a client. The metaparadigm of nursing focuses on:

ANS:  A

The metaparadigm elements of nursing are person, environment, health, and nursing. The metaparadigm of nursing do not include the pathophysiology and curing of disease, physicians, patients, community, biology, or curing.

PTS:   1                    DIF:    Application    REF:   Metaparadigm of Nursing

4. The nurse is going to use a theory for planning client care that supports the simultaneity paradigm. This type of paradigm views the person as:

ANS:  D

In the simultaneity paradigm, whole means unitary, and the unitary human has characteristics that are different from the parts and cannot be understood by a knowledge of the parts. Nursing goals in the simultaneity paradigm focus on the quality of life from the person’s perspective. The other choices describe the totality paradigm.

PTS:   1                    DIF:    Analysis         REF:   Paradigms in Nursing

5. Which of the following theories from nurse theorists should be used if the nurse is planning care according to the simultaneity paradigm?

ANS:  A

Nurse theorists who developed theories that follow the simultaneity paradigm include Jean Watson, Martha Rogers, Rosemarie Parse, and Margaret Newman. Nurse theorists whose theories that follow the totality paradigm include Imogene King, Dorothea Orem, Sr. Callista Roy, Betty Neuman, and Madeleine Leininger.

PTS:   1                    DIF:    Application    REF:   Paradigms in Nursing, Figure 2-2