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NURS 124 EXAM QUESTIONS AND VERIFIEDDETAILED ANSWERS 100% PASS
Roles of the Nurse - ANSWER Providing direct care: RNs work in busy intensive care
units and in small health clinics. They assess infant and toddler growth and development
and promote healthy child rearing in Canada's many northern, rural, urban and ethnic
communities.
Providing preventive care: RNs run health and safety programs (in factories, for
example) and they work with children, teenagers, adults and the elderly.
Research: There are RNs doing research in all areas of nursing care.
Teaching: RNs teach groups of clients about health care and teach other nurses about
providing care.
Administration: RNs participate in the administration of hospitals and other practice
settings. Nurses also work in provincial/territorial or federal governments
Community Health Nursing - ANSWER The goal of the community health nurse is to
promote, protect and preserve the health of the public
Some important skills Nurses need - ANSWER Ethics, Observation skills, physical
endurance, computer literacy, math skills, teamwork skills,
communication/interpersonal skills
Theory - ANSWER A theory is a purposeful set of assumptions or propositions that
identify the relationships between concepts.
Provides a systematic view for explaining, predicting, and prescribing phenomena.
Components of a theory - ANSWER → Phenomenon: an aspect of reality that can be
consciously sensed or experienced. I.e pain
→ Concepts: Mental construction of things or incidents; however, the idea represents
the most basic way in which thoughts are organized and expressed, for example,
anxiety
,→ Assumptions: An explanation of ideas or relationships of ideas that are taken to be
true and involves "taken for granted" notions, for example "nursing exists to serve a
social mandate."
→ Conceptual Framework: Organization that links concepts into a system for a
particular purpose
Types of Theory - ANSWER → Grand: global conceptual framework, represent world
views
→ Middle-range: more limited scope, less abstract
→ Descriptive: describes and specifies on why phenomenon occurs
→ Prescriptive: Address nursing interventions
Nursing Theory - ANSWER Reflects a conceptualization of nursing for the purpose of
describing, explaining, predicting, prescribing phenomena.
It organizes knowledge about nursing to enable nurses to use it in a professional and
accountable manner.
Early Nursing Practice - ANSWER Florence Nightingale: (Mother of scientific nursing),
helped knowledge and practice become formalized into a professional context, focused
on patients and the environment. Provided nurses with a theory of nursing practice with
patients and the patient environment.
WWII: Developments in science and technology had a powerful influence on healthcare,
"nursing science" was being developed.
Nursing knowledge: theorists used conceptual frameworks nurses apply their
knowledge to nursing practice.
⭐Quick Quiz - ANSWER Q: Why are theories in nursing important?
A: They provide a systematic view of explaining, predicting, and describing phenomena.
5 Major Theoretical Models - ANSWER 1.Practice-based theories
2.Needs theories
, 3.Interactionist theories
4.Systems theories
5.Simultaneity theories
Florence Nightingale - ANSWER → Grand theory (practice based theory) -1859
→ Disease is a reparative process wherein the nurse role helps modify the environment,
and the environment has its effect on health and well-being. With Nightingale giving
guidelines for ventilation, warmth, light, diet, cleanliness, variety, noise.
→ 3 relationships:
1.The environment to patient (environment affects the health of both well and sick
persons)
2.The nurse to environment
3.The nurse to patient
Martha Rogers - ANSWER → Simultaneity theory-1970
→ Key concepts of the energy field continuum:
Client is not just a person but an energy field, continuously interacting with the
environment.
→ Energy field: Individual and environment are described as energy fields
→ Openness: Continuous change/ mutual process between individual and environment
→ Pattern: Energy field seen as "one wave"
Dorothea Oram - ANSWER → Needs theory (self care)
→ Important concepts:
1. Individual practices self-care
2. Self-care essential to the modulation of human functioning
3. Therapeutic self-care requirement
4. Self-care agency
5. Self-care deficits
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