Foundations Of Nursing Practice Test! Trivia Quiz

Concepts, definitions, relationships, and assumptions are components of a theory. Identified linkages of a nursing paradigm are the person, health, environment/situation, and nursing itself. The individual, groups, situations, and interests specific to nursing are potential subjects for mid-ranged theories. Description, explanation, prediction, and prescription of an interrelationship of nursing are purposes of nursing theory.

Health is dynamic and continuously changing.

Dorothea Orem's self-care deficit theory focuses on the client's self-care needs. Roger's considers the individual as an energy field coexisting within the universe. Leininger deals with human caring and how it varies among cultures.

The nursing process is a systematic process for the delivery of nursing care, not the knowledge component. Theories generate knowledge for use in the practice.

A theory explains a phenomenon by providing a framework of concepts, definitions, relationships, and assumptions. It helps to understand and make sense of a particular phenomenon or event by offering explanations, predictions, and interpretations. In the context of nursing, a theory would explain various aspects of nursing practice, such as patient care, health promotion, or nursing interventions. It helps nurses to understand and apply knowledge in their practice, and guides their decision-making and actions.

Prescriptive theories address nursing interventions for a phenomenon and predict the consequence of the specific nursing intervention. Descriptive theories describe the phenomena, speculate on the reason the phenomena occur, and predict nursing phenomena. Grand theories are broad and complex and provide a structural framework for broad, abstract ideas about nursing.

The correct answer is "All the above" because nursing's paradigm includes all the elements mentioned in the options. Health, person, environment, theory, concepts, nurses, physicians, models, and client needs are all integral components of nursing's paradigm.

Peplau's focus was on the interaction between nurse and client, the interpersonal relationship. Nightingale's was on the client's environment (hygiene, noise, nutrition). Henderson's theory defines nursing as "assisting the individual, sick, or well, in the performance of those activities that will contribute to health, recovery, or a peaceful death." Abdellah's theory emphasizes the delivery of nursing care for the whole person to meet the physical, emotional, intellectual, social, and spiritual needs of the client and family

Science or evidenced-based practice describe or predict client outcomes. Theories explain phenomenons. Concepts, definitions, relationships, and assumptions or propositions are components of a theory.

The prescriptive theory addresses nursing interventions and predicts the consequence of the specific nursing interventions. Middle-range theories are limited in scope, less abstract than grand theories, address specific phenomena or concepts, and reflect practice. Descriptive theories describe phenomena, speculate as to why the phenomena occur and describe the consequences of phenomena. Grand theories are broad and complex.

Roy's theory deals with adaptation by meeting basic physiological needs, developing a positive self-concept, performing social roles and by achieving a balance between dependence and independence. Watson's theory involves the philosophy and science of caring to meet human needs. Orem's theory is based self-care deficit and focuses on the client's self-care needs. Leininger's theory deals with cultural care diversity.

Interdisciplinary theories provide a systematic view of a phenomenon. Developmental theories, health and wellness theories, and systems theories are examples of other types of theories.

Evidence-based nursing practice is the end result of theory-generating and theory-testing research. This means that in order to have evidence-based practice, it is necessary to have research that generates new theories and tests existing theories. This research provides the foundation for the development and implementation of evidence-based practices in nursing. The use of practical knowledge, application of theoretical knowledge, and prescriptive theory are all important components of evidence-based nursing practice, but they are not the end result.

Florence Nightingale said, "...the nature of nursing as a profession that requires knowledge distinct from medical knowledge".

An open system is defined as a system that interacts with the environment, exchanging information between the system and the environment. A closed system does not interact with the environment, such as a chemical reaction in a test tube.

A theory is a set of concepts, definitions and assumptions/propositions that explain a phenomenon. Grand theories are broad in scope. Middle-range theories are more limited and are less abstract. They address a specific phenomenon and reflect practice (administration, clinical or teaching). Descriptive theories describe phenomena, speculate on why phenomena occur and describe the consequences of the phenomena. Prescriptive theories address nursing interventions and predict the consequences of specific nursing intervention.

Mishel's theory of uncertainty in illness focuses on clients' experiences with cancer while living with continual uncertainty is an example of a mid-ranged theory.