Purpose

Question 1

Address lack of cultural and care knowledge in nursing.
Address cultural dynamics that influence the nurse-client relationship.
Predict/Provide culturally congruent care.
Explain transcultural nursing.

Answer 1

Purpose of Culture Care Theory (Leininger - MR/GT)

Question 2

To provide a definition of nursing that is independent of technology and medicine, and to provide guidance surrounding basic human needs for nursing practice and education.

Guide nursing education/practice.

Answer 2

Purpose of Basic Human Needs Theory (Henderson - P/GT)

Question 3

To define nursing and guide military healthcare reform through environmental changes.

Answer 3

Purpose of Environmental Theory (Nightingale - P/GT)

Question 4

To bring meaning and focus to nursing across settings/ specialties/ populations as a unique discipline with a unique Ethic & Mission.
To balance cure orientation of medicine.
Concerned about focus on technology.
Describe nursing values, knowledge, and practice of human caring.
To serve fundamental human need of ​giving and receiving caring.

Answer 4

Purpose of Theory of Human Caring Science (Watson - P/GT / Caring/Interaction-Based)