PURPOSES OF NURSING THEORY

Question 1

DON’T ANSWER!

“Nursing is feeling loved, cared for, trusted, and understood”.

• Ramona Mercer
  Nurse Scientist & Educator

Question 2

GENERAL PURPOSES OF THEORY DEVELOPMENT:

To ensure inadequate and quality nursing care.

TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 2

FALSE

Note: It should be adequate

Question 3

GENERAL PURPOSES OF THEORY DEVELOPMENT:

To clarify and improve the status of Nursing as a profession.

TRUE OR FALSE

Answer 3

TRUE

Question 4

This is inherent in the different nursing fields - education, research, and practice.

Answer 4

Theory Development

Question 5

• To categorize knowledge & analyze client care situations to communicate in coherent and meaningful ways.
• Provides a framework for thought in which to examine situations, which provides a structure for organization, analysis, and decision-making.

Answer 5

Education

Question 6

• For the continued development and evolution of the discipline of nursing.
• Nursing needs to continue expanding its knowledge base to respond proactively to changes in societal needs.

Answer 6

Education

Question 7

__________ were primarily used to develop and guide nursing education in universities and institutions.

Answer 7

Nursing Theories

Question 8

Education were once known to be more strongly established in the field of academics rather than ______________.

Answer 8

clinical practice

Question 9

In the _______ and _______, a number of nursing programs recognized the major concepts of some nursing models, structured these concepts into a conceptual framework, and built the complete curriculum around that framework (Kozier, 2008)

Answer 9

1970s and 1980s

Question 10

________________ primarily prepares students for practice as members of the professional community.

Answer 10

Theoretical concepts

Question 11

Education was able to come up with unique terms such as:

Answer 11

1. Program objectives
2. Course objectives
3. Course description
4. Clinical Performance Criteria

Question 12

Under Research,

Experts constantly believed that ____________ was inspired by different theoretical assumptions or conceptual frameworks in the past.

Answer 12

research in nursing

Question 13

Under Research,

Through the evolution of ______, _______, and _______ issues interpretations and perspectives are generated to provide answers to questions encountered in practice.

Answer 13

technology, ideas, and emerging nursing

Question 14

It is the systematic application of formalized methods of generating valid and dependable information about the phenomena of concern to the discipline of nursing.

Answer 14

Research

Question 15

It is developed that in turn used to either test existing theories or generate new theories.

Answer 15

Knowledge for nursing practice

Question 16

Theories thoroughly guide critical thinking and decision-making in __________________.

Answer 16

clinical nursing practice

Question 17

____________ strengthen professional independence by guiding the deepest and most important part of their practice.

Answer 17

Nursing Theories

Question 18

Provide a structure for communicating with other nurses & with other members of the health care team.

Answer 18

Clinical Practice

Question 19

• Assist in clarifying beliefs, values, and goals and help to define the unique contribution of nursing in the care of clients.
• It is a tool for effective nursing practice.

Answer 19

Clinical Practice

Question 20

In ______________,

• Nurses gain new insights into patient care, open new options & stimulate innovative interventions.
• Enhances & strengthen the nurse’s role & helps one to actually think nursing.
• To help guide their practice or choose a more eclectic approach & adopt ideas from several theories.

Answer 20

CLINICAL Practice

Question 21

It provides the raw material for the ideas that are systematically developed & organized in the form of _______.

A. Nursing theory
B. Nursing research
C. Nursing practice

Answer 21

A. Nursing theory

Question 22

The ideas proposed by nursing theory must be tested and validated through _________.

A. Nursing theory
B. Nursing research
C. Nursing practice

Answer 22

B. Nursing research

Question 23

New knowledge that results from nursing research is use to transform & inform ________.

A. Nursing theory
B. Nursing research
C. Nursing practice

Answer 23

C. Nursing practice

Question 24

____________ generates questions that serve as the basis for nursing research.

A. Nursing theory
B. Nursing research
C. Nursing practice

Answer 24

C. Nursing practice

Question 25

____________ influences the development of nursing theory that in turn transforms nursing practice.

A. Nursing theory
B. Nursing research
C. Nursing practice

Answer 25

B. Nursing research

Question 26

FILL IN THE BLANKS:

“Practice without theory, like _____ without _______, is blind; theory without practice, like ______ without _________, is empty”.

Answer 26

map, route

route, map

Question 27

These 3 parts of nursing are interdependent to each other. What are these?

Answer 27

Nursing Theory ⟺ Nursing Research ⟺ Nursing Practice

Question 28

According to _____, Theoretical knowledge includes and reflects on the basic values, guiding principles, elements and phases of conception of nursing.

Answer 28

(Meleis, 1997)

Question 29

It aims to stimulate thinking and broaden understanding of the science and practice of the Nursing discipline.

Answer 29

Theoretical knowledge

Question 30

It is the art of nursing.

Answer 30

Practical knowledge

Question 31

Research is linked to theory in 2 ways by _______ and _________.

Answer 31

generating and testing

Question 32

It is designed to discover and describe relationships and phenomena without imposing predetermined notions on the nature of the phenomena.

Answer 32

Theory-generating research

Question 33

Utilized to determined how accurate a theory describes a phenomenon.

Answer 33

Theory-testing research

Question 34

The end result of theory-generating and theory-testing research is to _______________.

Answer 34

enhance nursing knowledge