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:

a.	deep breathing in the postoperative period makes people healthier.
b.	self-care is ideal.
c.	nursing care is needed when people are affected by limitations that do not allow them to meet their self-care needs.
d.	optimum health is the only ideal state.

 

 

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?

a.	Self-care deficit theory
b.	Science of unitary human beings
c.	Theory of human caring
d.	Theory of human development.

 

 

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:

a.	the person, health, and the environment.
b.	pathophysiology and the curing of disease.
c.	physicians, patients, and pathophysiology.
d.	community, biology, and curing.

 

 

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:

a.	a combination of biological, psychological, social, and spiritual features.
b.	being in constant interaction with the environment to accomplish goals and maintain balance.
c.	needing nursing goals that focus on health promotion, care and cure of the sick, and prevention of illness.
d.	more than, and different from, the sum of the parts.

 

 

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?

a.	Jean Watson	c.	Dorothea Orem
b.	Imogene King	d.	Sister Callista Roy

 

 

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