Pretest Module 6F Concept of Nursing

Question 1

THEORY

Answer 1

– a system of ideas that is proposed to explain a given
phenomenon; well-articulated idea about something important; describe, predict and control phenomena.

Question 2

NURSING THEORY

Answer 2

A conceptualization of some aspect of
nursing communicated for the purpose of describing, explaining,
predicting, and/or prescribing CARE (Meleis, 1997).

Question 3

importance of a nursing theory includes the following:

Answer 3

-guides knowledge development and directs:
-NURSING EDUCATION - Used primarily to establish the profession’s place in the university
-NURSING RESEARCH - Identifies gaps in the way we approach specific fields of study.
-CLINICAL PRACTICE – the reflection, questioning, and thinking about what nurses do.

Question 4

PRINCIPLE

Answer 4

a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as
the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.

Question 5

PHILOSOPHY

Answer 5

a belief system and serves as basis for theoretical formulations.

Question 6

CLEAR

Answer 6

consistency, semantic, and structural clarity

Question 7

SIMPLE

Answer 7

sufficiently comprehensive and at a level of abstraction provides guidance.

Question 8

CONCEPT

Answer 8

• mental formulations of an object or event that come from individual perceptual experience.

Question 9

DEFINITION

Answer 9

Convey the general meaning of the concepts in manner that fits the theory; measures the constructs, relationships or variables within a theory.

Question 10

ASSUMPTIONS

Answer 10

Statements that describe concepts or connect two concepts that are factual. Determine the nature of
the concepts, definitions, purpose, relationships and structure of the theory.

Question 11

PHENOMENON

Answer 11

Aspect of reality that can be consciously sensed or experience

Question 12

THE NURSING PARADIGM

Answer 12

explains the linkages of science, philosophy, and theory accepted and applied by the discipline.

Question 13

PERSON

Answer 13

the recipient of nursing care.

Question 14

HEALTH

Answer 14

the goal of nursing care.

Question 15

ENVIRONMENT

Answer 15

all possible conditions affecting the client and the setting in which health care needs occur.

Question 16

NURSING

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diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems (ANA,1995)

Question 17

LEVELS OF ABSRACTION

Answer 17

grand theories or middle-range theories.

Question 18

GOALS OF THE THOERY

Answer 18

descriptive or prescriptive.

Question 19

GRAND THEORIES

Answer 19

Broad in scope and complex, require further
specification through research before they can be
fully tested.

Question 19

DESCRIPTIVE THEORIES

Answer 19

Describe the phenomena, speculate on why the phenomena occur, and describe the consequences of the phenomena

Question 20

MIDDLE RANGE THEORIES

Answer 20

More limited scope, less abstraction, address specific phenomena or concept and reflect practice (administration, clinical or teaching).

Question 21

PRESCRIPTIVE THEORIES

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predict the consequences of a specific nursing intervention.

Question 22

THEORETICAL ASSERTIONS:

Answer 22

ASSERTIONS: Disease was a
reparative process; disease was nature’s effort to remedy a process of poisoning or decay, or a reaction against the conditions in which a person was placed.

Question 23

PERSON

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Human systems have thinking and feeling capacities rooted in consciousness and meaning; adjust effectively to changes in the environment and in turn affect the environment

Question 24

ENVIRONMENT

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Conditions, circumstances and
influences surrounding and affecting the development and behavior of persons or groups, with consideration of the mutuality of person and health resources

Question 25

HEALTH

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is not freedom from the
inevitability of death, disease, unhappiness, and
stress, but the ability to cope with them in a
competent way.

Question 26

NURSING

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is the promotion
of adaptation for individuals and groups in each of the four adaptive modes, thus contributing to health, quality of life, and dying with dignity.

Question 27

ADAPTATION

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The “process and outcome
whereby thinking and feeling persons as individuals or in groups use conscious awareness and choice to create human and
environmental interaction.

Question 28

RHYTHMICITY:

Answer 28

Human Becoming is
co-creating rhythmical patterns of relating in mutual process with the universe. Man and environment co-create (imaging, valuing, language) in rhythmical patterns.

Question 29

MEANING:

Answer 29

Human Becoming is freely
choosing personal meaning in
situations in the intersubjective
process of living value priorities. Man’s reality is given meaning through lived experiences. Man and environment co-create.