Final exam q's Flashcards
Situation: Student Nurse Maelina was studying about the contributions of Nursing Leaders.
1. Who is considered as the first nurse researcher?
Florence Nightingale
Who initiated the practice of nurses wearing uniforms?
Linda Richards
Who was the founder of public health nursing?
Lillian Wald
Situation: Student Nurse Stella was studying about the influence of war on nursing.
1. Because of the Nursing Shortage during World War II, auxiliary workers became prominent. What do these auxiliary workers do?
They provide nursing care under the supervision of nurses
What did Florence Nightingale introduce that resulted in the reduction of the mortality rate in military hospitals?
Sanitation Practices
Situation: Nurse Joyce is a nursing theorist who is working on her theory of caring in nursing. She was trying to recall concepts in theory development in order to aid in creating her own theory.
1. Which are considered as the building blocks of theories?
Concepts
Which of the following isn’t one of the characteristics of a nursing theory?
Helps nurses understand their purpose and role in providing assistance to the physician
Which nursing theories (according to the level of abstraction) provide frameworks for nursing interventions?
Practice-Level Nursing Theories
Which of these nursing theories are used to predict the outcomes of nursing interventions?
Prescriptive Nursing Theories
Situation: Nursing Theorist Brehnzel was giving a talk about the classifications of nursing theories to a group of nursing students.
1. Nursing Theorist Brehnzel told the audience that grand nursing theories are abstract, broad, and complex. In short, Grand Nursing Theories mainly serve as?
A general framework for nursing
Nursing Theorist Brehnzel gave examples of grand nursing theories. He would be correct if this is not included in the examples.
Nursing Process Theory
The next discussion by Nursing Theorist Brehnzel was about middle-range nursing theories. He told the audience that middle-range nursing theories are more narrow in scope when compared to grand nursing theories and that middle-range nursing theories mainly:
Address a specific phenomenon in nursing
Nurse Brehnzel gave examples of middle-range nursing theories. He would be correct if this is not included in the examples.
Novice to Expert Theory
Change theory isn’t a theory that was specifically developed for nursing but it is utilized in nursing. Nursing Theorist Brehnzel explains that change theory is composed of a three stage model of change that is known as the unfreezing-change-refreeze model. When somebody has made the change a habit, he/she is at what stage?
Refreezing
Situation: Nurse Mariel reviews the different nursing theorists and their work to study for an upcoming exam in her application as a Clinical Teacher in Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.
Lydia Hall