Nursing Theory And Theorists

Question 1

Virginia Henderson (2)

Answer 1

1- coauthor of “Textbook of the Principles and Practice of Nursing”
2- theory is based on developmental needs similar to Maslow’s hierarchy

Question 2

Madeline Leininger

Answer 2

1- developed the theory of culture care
2- first nurse to systematically define and focus on caring
3- phd in anthropolgy

Question 3

Myrna Levine (1)

Answer 3

1-energy conservation and renewal / thermodynamics

Question 4

Betty Neuman

Answer 4

1- nurse’s role is to identify potential stressors and strengthen defense
2- based on systems theory

Question 5

Florence Nightingale

Answer 5

1- first nursing theorist

2- theory is considered humanistic and environmental

Question 6

Dorothea Orem (2)

Answer 6

1-Theory acknowledges self care deficit

2- believed nursing roles are wholly or partially compensatory or educational And supportive

Question 7

Hildegard Peplau (5)

Answer 7

1- defined six roles for nurses: stranger, resource person, teacher, leader, surrogate and counselor
2- theory that helps patients change patterns that obstruct goal achievement
3-theory is called interpersonal theory
4- theory based on models of verbal interactions seen in psychiatry
5- author of “Interpersonal Relations in Nursing: …Psychodynamic Nursing”

Question 8

Martha Rogers (3)

Answer 8

1- developed science of unitary human beings
2-therapeutic touch
3-theory based on concept of energy fields

Question 9

Sister Callista Roy

Answer 9

1- believed that people must adapt to a changing external and internal environment to be healthy
2- theory includes regulator and cognator mechanisms

Question 10

Jean Watson

Answer 10

1- author of “Nursing : Human science and Human Care”
2- estab the Center for Human Caring at the Univ of Colorado
3- view of caring is Eastern Metaphysical in nature
4- therapeutic touch

Question 11

Imogene King

Answer 11

Goal attainment

Interpersonal theory