TEST BANK FOR Nursing Theories And Nursing Practice 4th Edition By Smith Parker Chapter 1: Nursing Theory and the Discipline of Nursing Multiple
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1. The purpose of theory is to: 2. Explain experience. 3. Describe relationships. 4. Project outcomes. 5. All of the above
2. Members of a community of scholars share a commitment to all of the following except:
3. Values. 4. Knowledge. 5. Geographic location. 6. Processes.
3. and structures are essential to any discipline and are inherent in nursing theories.
4. Paradigm and metaparadigm 5. Syntactical and conceptual 6. Middle and grand
1 | P a g e7. Language and symbol
4. Books and periodicals are examples of:
5. Communication networks.
6. Heritage of literature.
7. Nursing organizations.
8. Nursing discipline.
5. The basic building blocks of theories are:
6. Concepts and their definitions.
7. Statements of relationships.
8. Concepts and statements of relationships.
9. Empirical indicators.
6. Nursing theories:
7. Are discovered in nature.
8. Serve as exact representations of reality.
9. Are invented by humans.
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Cannot be modified.
2 | P a g e7. A paradigm is defined as a:
8. Worldview.
9. General framework.
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Set of shared perspectives held by members of a discipline.
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All of the above
8. The dependence of nursing theory development on human imagination is an
attribute of nursing as a(n):
9. Occupation.
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Discipline.
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Vocation.
Profession.
9. The primary purpose of nursing theory is to:
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Structure nursing knowledge.
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Demonstrate creativity in nursing.
Guide the thinking about, being, and doing of nursing.
Organize nursing curricula.
10. The first nursing theorist who identified the importance of theory in nursing was:
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Virginia Henderson.
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Hildegard Peplau.
Lydia Hall.
Florence Nightingale.11.
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The most abstract level of knowledge is the:
Paradigm.
Metaparadigm.
Theory.
Concept.
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Statements of enduring values or beliefs are considered:
Conceptual models.
Philosophies.
Grand theories.
Practice theories.
13. Theories that include specific concepts, are broad enough to be useful in
complex situations, and can be empirically tested are called:
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16.
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Grand theories.
Middle-range theories.
Practice-level theories.
Nursing theories.
14. Theories that have the most limited scope and level of abstraction that are
useful in within a specific range of nursing situations are called:
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Grand theories.
Middle-range theories.
Practice-level theories.
Nursing theories.
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The name for the boundaries or focus of a discipline is:
Imagination.
Domain.
Tradition.
Value.
True/False
1. Every discipline has a unique focus that directs inquiry and distinguishes it from
other fields of study.
2. Theories are not discovered in nature but are human inventions
3. Science generally evolves as a smooth, regular, continuing path of
knowledge development over time.
5 | P a g e4. Early nursing theorists relied on definitions of theory from nursing practice to
guide the development of theories within nursing.
5. The best test of any nursing theory is its usefulness in professional
practice.
Chapter 2: A Guide for the Study of Theories for Practice
Multiple Choice
1. The scope of nursing practice is:
2. Known and static.
3. Continually being expanded.
4. Determined only by individual researchers.
5. Important only to nurses with advanced degrees.
2. The question “What does the nurse attend to when practicing nursing?”
relates to which of the following areas of the theory guide?
3. How nursing is conceptualized
4. The context of theory development
5. Authoritative sources
6. Overall theory significance
6 | P a g e3. Nursing theorists and nurses in practice:
4. Are interested in related but different phenomena.
5. Do not see nursing in the same context.
6. Think and work with the same phenomena.
7. Require the same knowledge and skills.
4. The study of nursing theory:
5. Is a simple, short-term endeavor.
6. Can be easily undertaken.
7. Requires a continuing commitment.
8. Is not essential for expert nursing practice.
5. The question “What nursing society’s share and support work of the
theory?” relates to which of the following areas of the theory guide?
6. How nursing is conceptualized
7. The context of theory development
8. Authoritative sources
9. Overall theory significance
6. The question “Is the theory used to guide programs of nursing education?”
relates to which of the following areas of the theory guide?
7. How nursing is conceptualized
8. The context of theory development
7 | P a g e9. Authoritative sources
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Overall theory significance
True/False
1. The guide for the selection of nursing theory presented in your text is a set of
questions that facilitate reflection and exploration in the study of nursing theory
that can lead to the selection of a nursing theory for use in your practice.
2. One criterion for hospitals seeking magnet hospital status is selection of a
theoretical model for nursing practice.
3. It is not necessary or desirable for the study and use of nursing theory to have
roots in the everyday practice of nursing.
4. Key ways to study nursing include analysis and evaluation.
8 | P a g eChapter 3: Choosing, Evaluating and Implementing Nursing Theories for Practice
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. The primary purpose of nursing theory is to:
2. Improve nursing practice.
3. Control health care costs.
4. Justify nursing costs.
5. Establish nursing as a discipline.
2. Nursing practice is essential for all of the following EXCEPT:
3. Developing nursing theory.
4. Testing nursing theory.
5. Refining nursing theory.
6. Discovering nursing theory.
3. Nurses working together as colleagues often realize that:
4. Their views of nursing are not compatible.
5. They share the same values and beliefs.
6. The study of nursing theory does not enhance their work.
7. None of the above
4. Responses to guiding questions about theory in practice can be found in the
following resources:
5. Nursing literature
6. Audiovisual sources
7. Electronic sources
8. All of the above
9 | P a g e5. How we come to know the science of nursing and other disciplines that are
used in nursing practice is described as:
6. Empirical knowing.
7. Personal knowing.
8. Emancipatory knowing.
9. Aesthetic knowing.
6. How we come to know the moral component affecting choices within the
complexity of health care that guide day-to-day actions in nursing practice is
described as:
7. Empirical knowing.
8. Personal knowing.
9. Ethical knowing.
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Emancipatory knowing.
7. Striving to know the self and to actualize authentic relationships between the
nurse and the one nursed is defined as:
8. Empirical knowing.
9. Personal knowing.
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Ethical knowing.
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Aesthetic knowing.
10 | P a g e8. Cultivating awareness about how social, political and economic forces shape
assumptions and opinions about knowledge and truth is defined as:
9. Personal knowing.
10.
Ethical knowing.
11.
12.
Emancipatory knowing.
Aesthetic knowing.
True/False
1. One of the most urgent issues facing the discipline of nursing is the
artificial separation of theory and practice.
2. Theories of any professional discipline are useless if they do not have an
impact on practice.
3. Historically, nursing has always been distinctly separate from the medical model.
11 | P a g eChapter 4: Florence Nightingale
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. Nightingale proposed nursing as:
2. An extension of the environment.
3. An art and a science.
4. Empirical science.
5. Physician’s handmaiden.
2. Nightingale defined a nurse as any woman who had “charge of the personal
health of somebody” whether well, as in caring for babies and children, or sick,
as an “invalid” (Nightingale, 1860/1969). It was assumed that:
3. All women, at one time or another in their lives, would nurse.
4. All women needed to know the laws of health.
5. Nursing proper, or “sick” nursing, was both an art and a science and
required organized, formal education to care for those suffering from
disease.
6. All of the above
3. The goal of nursing as described by Nightingale is to:
4. Work collaboratively with the physician to implement the medical orders.
5. Take care of the patient’s environment by cooking, cleaning, and
scrubbing the floors.
6. Assist the patient in his or her retention of “vital powers” by meeting his or her
needs, thus putting the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon.
7. Give the patient medicine when the medicine is due.
12 | P a g e4. Nightingale isolated five environmental components essential to an
individual’s health. Select the correct grouping from the following:
5. Calming colors, quiet, comfortable temperature, clean air, pure water
6. Clean air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness, light
7. Light, color, sound, smell, temperature
8. Pure food, clean water, cleanliness, quiet, calming color
5. In Nightingale’s mind, the specific “scientific” activity of nursing that was the
central element in health care, without which medicine and surgery would be
ineffective, is which of the following:
6. Preparing nutritious meals
7. Maintaining an aesthetic environment
8. Maintaining hygiene
9. Sustaining a quiet environment
6. In the mid-19th century, there were two competing theories regarding the nature
and origin of disease. These competing thoeries were:
7. Localization and specificity.
8. Contagionism and quarantine.
9. Vectorism and pollution.
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Atmosphere and environment.
7. According to Nightingale, a nurse is defined as:
8. The handmaiden of the physician.
9. A member of the moral majority.
10. Any woman who had charge of the personal health of somebody, whether
well or sick.
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An individual who felt a calling to take charge of the sick.8. The patient is at the center of the Nightingale model and incorporates:
9. A holistic view of the person.
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Psychological, intellectual, and spiritual components.
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12.
13.
A unique individual filled with chattering hopes and advice.
A & B
All of the above.
9. According to Nightingale, health is viewed as:
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An additive process.
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13.
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The result of environmental, physical, and psychological factors.
The absence of illness.
A & B
All of the above
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Cultural feminism is defined as:
The idea that women are a product of the culture.
A belief in inherent gender differences.
The emancipation of women as a cultural fad.
The corruption of women by masculine politics.
Chapter 5: Wiedenbach, Henderson, Hall
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. Wiedenbach explains her prescriptive theory in her book, Meeting the Realities in
Clinical Teaching (1969). Select the answer that represents the BEST explanation
14 | P a g eof her perspective theory.
2. Nursing process allows the nurse to employ a standard process in
selecting appropriate interventions.
3. Account must be taken of the motivating factors that influence the nurse not
only in doing what she does but also in doing it the way she does it with the
realities that exist in the situation in which she is functioning.
4. This theory proposes 14 functional components of basic nursing care.
5. Nursing entails the diagnosis and treatment of illness.
2. Wiedenbach proposes that there are three ingredients essential to the
prescriptive theory. Select the ONE answer that is NOT one of these essential
ingredients.
3. The nurse’s central purpose in nursing is the nurse’s professional
commitment.
4. The prescription indicates the broad general action that the nurse deems
appropriate to fulfillment of her central purpose.
5. The reality of nursing is that the charge of the nurse is to implement the orders
prescribed by the physician.
6. The realities are the aspects of the immediate nursing situation that
influence the results the nurse achieves through what she does.
3. Which of the following theorists coined the term “basic nursing care”?
4. Wiedenbach
5. Henderson
6. Hall
7. None of the above.
15 | P a g e4. Which of the following theorists founded the [Show Less]