Chapter 9: N theory: the basis for professional nursing

Question 1

Why is theory important?

Answer 1

Nursing as a profession is strengthened when nursing knowledge is built on sound theory

Question 2

_____: a useful tool for reasoning, critical thinking, and decision making

Answer 2

Theory

Question 3

What are more abstract than theories of nursing?

Answer 3

Models

Question 4

What do conceptual models provide?

Answer 4

Provide organizational structures for critical thinking about the processes of nursing

Question 5

Will ask a question about which philosophy is being used in a situation

Answer 5

Nightingale (environment) Henderson (14 basic needs, etc.

Watson (everything we do is in the spirit of caring)

Question 6

Do theories propose specific outcomes?

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

What is middle-range theory

Answer 7

narrower in focus and makes connections between grand theories and nursing practice

Question 8

Grand theory

Answer 8

A broad conceptualization of nursing phenomena

Question 9

They incorporate a limited number of concepts and focus on a specific aspect of nursing

Answer 9

Middle range

Question 10

This theory typically merges practice and research

Answer 10

Middle range

Question 11

Which theory studied men with prostate cancer who were watchfully waiting for advancing their disease than seeking aggressive therapies

Answer 11

Mishel’s uncertainty in illness

Question 12

This theory is based on qualitative research on politically and economically powerless, or those who were vulnerable as a function of advanced disease

Answer 12

Jezewski’s

Question 13

This theory notes that death and dying is a social phenomenon that involves a wide range of human responses across a variety of setings

Answer 13

Dobratz theory of psychological adaptation in death and dying