Chapter 13: Nursing Theory, the Basis for Professional Nursing Flashcards
Which nursing theorist would ask, “What goals can we set together to restore him to health?”
Imogene King
Which theorist would ask, “What can I help this patient do that he would do for himself if he could?”
Virginia Henderson
Which nursing theorist would ask, “What deficits this is patient have in providing his own self-care?”
Dorthea Orem
Which nursing theorist would ask, “What are the best ways to provide care to my patient that are culturally congruent?”
Madeleine Leininger
Which nursing theorist would ask, “How can I best figure out what my patient needs to my interaction with him?”
Ida Orlando
Which nursing theorist would ask, “Within the relationship with my patient, how can I best help him understand his health problems and develop new, healthier behaviors?”
Hildegard Peplau
Which nursing theorist would ask, “How can I modify this patient’s environment to facilitate his adaptation?”
Sister Calista Roy
Which nursing theorist would ask, “What needs to be adjusted in this environment to protect the patient?”
Florence Nightingale
Which nursing theorist would ask, “How can I create an environment of trust, understanding, and openness so that the patient and I can work together and meeting his needs?”
Jean Watson
Who developed a philosophy focusing on the relationship of the patients to their surroundings?
Florence Nightingale
Who developed a theory of cultural care for nursing?
Madeleine Leininger
Who developed a model of self-care and control?
Dorthea Orem
Who developed a model of adaptation and altering the environment?
Calista Roy
Who developed a model of the interactions between people based on three interacting systems?
Imogene King
Who developed a philosophy of caring and the human to human relationship?
Jean Watson
Who developed a theory that all nursing is based on the interpersonal process and the nurse patient relationship?
Hildegard Peplau
Who developed a theory about how nurses process the observations of patient behavior?
Ida Orlando
Who developed a philosophy emphasizing the functions of the nurse with a list of basic patient needs that are the focus of nursing care?
Virginia Henderson
What is an abstract notion or idea?
A concept
What refers to the most abstract aspect of the structure of nursing knowledge?
The metaparadigm
What is a set of beliefs about the nature of how things work and how the world should be viewed?
A philosophy
What provides an organizational structure that makes clear connections between concepts?
The conceptual model or framework
What are statements that describe linkages between concepts and are more prescriptive (that is, they propose an outcome that is testable in practice and research)?
Propositions
What introduces students to the theoretical basis of the discipline of nursing from a nursing science perspective, that is much broader than any one of the primary sources?
Explanatory texts
What represents abstract ideas rather than concrete facts?
A theory
What occur when therapeutic self-care requisites (based on deficits) are determined and the nurse reviews various methods, actions, and priorities within the patient?
Prescriptive operations
True or false:
Watson focused on self-care of the nurses to avoid burnout.
False
True or false:
King focused her theory on the interrelationships between three systems of personal, health, and the physician.
False
True or false:
Henderson described the nurses role as that of a substitute for the patient.
True
True or false:
Orlando’s theory is specific to nurse-provider interaction.
False
True or false:
Nightingale recognized nursings role in protecting patients.
True
True or false:
Transpersonal and transcultural meant the same thing.
False
True or false:
Henderson focused the profession on what has become known as the meta-paradigm of nursing: person (patient), health (as opposed to illness), environment (how the environment affects health and recovery from illness), and nursing (as opposed to medicine).
False
True or false:
Theory provides a systematic way of thinking about nursing that is consistent and guides the decision-making process as data are collected, analyzed, and used in the planning and administration of nursing practice.
True
True or false:
New theories are not generated often.
False
True or false:
The theory of nursing consists of the major constructs of the discipline – person, environment, health, and nursing.
False
True or false:
Theory is not useful when it comes to reasoning, critical thinking, and decision-making.
False
True or false:
A philosophy provides a specific framework for nursing practice.
False
True or false:
Theory is used frequently in everyday language.
True
True or false:
The development of nursing knowledge is the work of nurse researchers and scholars.
True
