Chapter 2

Question 1

A set of concepts and statements that integrate the concepts into a meaningful configuration

Answer 1

Conceptual model

Question 2

Statements that describe relationships among events, situations, or actions

Answer 2

Propositions

Question 3

Describe concepts or connect two concepts and represent values, beliefs or goals

Answer 3

Assumptions

Question 4

When assumptions are challenged they become:

Answer 4

propositions

Question 5

an organized, coherent & systematic articulation of a set of statements related to significant questions in a discipline that are communicated in a meaningful whole

Answer 5

theory

Question 6

A ___ is a highly abstract system of global concepts and linking statements

Answer 6

conceptual model

Question 7

A ___ deals with one or more specific, concrete concepts and propositions.

Answer 7

theory

Question 8

A __ is the most global perspective of a discipline and “acts as an encapsulating unit or framework, within which the more restricted…structures develop”

Answer 8

metaparadigm

Question 9

The central concepts of nursing (4)

Answer 9

person, environment, health, nursing

Question 10

___ set forth the general meaning of nursing and nursing phenomena through reasoning and the logical presentation of ideas.

Answer 10

philosophies

Question 11

the focus of this philosophy is primarily on the patient and the environment, with the nurse manipulating the environment to enhance patient recovery

Answer 11

Nightingale’s Environmental Theory

Question 12

Believed in getting inside the skin of each of their patients and 14 components of basic nursing care

Answer 12

Virginia Henderson

Question 13

Her work focused on the understanding of perceptual acuity, clinical judgement, skilled know-how, ethical comportment, and ongoing experiential learning

Answer 13

Patricia Benner

Question 14

Theory that describes why and how people care for themselves & suggests that nursing is required in case of inability to perform self care as a result of limitations

Answer 14

Theory of Self Care

Question 15

theory that describes and explains why people can be helped through nursing

Answer 15

Theory of self- care deficit

Question 16

Theory that describes and explains relationships that must exist and be maintained for nursing to occur

Answer 16

Theory of nursing systems

Question 17

Theory that presents the person as an adaptive system in constant interaction with the internal & external environments

Answer 17

Callista Roy’s Adaptation Model

Question 18

Model with the goal of providing culture-specific and universal nursing care practices in promoting health or well-being or to help people face unfavorable health conditions

Answer 18

Madeleine Leininger’s Cultural Diversity & Universality Theory

Question 19

Primarily concerned with how persons relate to one another

Answer 19

Hildegard Peplau’s Theory of Interpersonal Relations

Question 20

Attempts to portray the multidimensionality of persons interacting with their interpersonal and physical environments as they pursue health

Answer 20

Nola Pender’s Health Promotion Model

Question 21

Offers an explanation of what it means to practice nursing in a caring manner.

Answer 21

Kristen Swanson’s Theory of Caring

Question 22

The capacity to expand self-boundaries intrapersonally, interpersonally, temporally & transpersonally

Answer 22

self-transcendence

Question 23

Document that addresses the knowledge base & relationships among concepts important to the practice of nursing

Answer 23

Nursing core competencies