NUR 230 Exam 1 (Questions and answers) LATEST UPDATE
Course
NUR 230
Institution
NUR 230
Which theorist supports the belief that the provision of patient care includes a personal
response by the nurse? - ️️Jean Watson
Specific assumptions about caring in Watson's Science of Human Caring Theory,
include (select all that apply): - ️️Caring promotes health more than curing; Car...
NUR 230 Exam 1
Which theorist supports the belief that the provision of patient care includes a personal
response by the nurse? - ✔️✔️Jean Watson
Specific assumptions about caring in Watson's Science of Human Caring Theory,
include (select all that apply): - ✔️✔️Caring promotes health more than curing; Caring
involves consequences
Nursing theories include descriptions of which four concepts? - ✔️✔️Person, health,
environment, nursing
Nursing is a unique profession, concerned with all the variables affecting an individual's
response to stressors, which are intra and interpersonal in nature. - ✔️✔️Neuman
Systems Model
A _____ is an abstract image or idea of reality, usually represented by a word, which
brings forth mental pictures of the properties and meanings of things. - ✔️✔️Concept
In Orem's nursing model, the role of the nurse is to: - ✔️✔️Influence the client's
development in achieving an optimal level of self-care
A thread common to any systems theory such as those of Roy, King, Neuman, and
Johnson is the idea of: - ✔️✔️Interrelated parts functioning together to form the whole
Input" in Roy's Adaptation Model (a systems model) refers to: - ✔️✔️Internal and
external stimuli that the individual receives.
Theory is necessary to direct practice, education, and research. A nurse researcher
would be most likely to use theory to: - ✔️✔️Identify knowledge gaps in nursing
The goal of nursing is an important element in all nursing models. Which theorist
believes that the goal of nursing is to make the client comfortable and put the client in
the best possible condition to allow nature to act? - ✔️✔️Virginia Henderson
What are the 4 overarching goals of HP 2020? - ✔️✔️*Attain high-quality longer lives
free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death
*Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve health of all groups
*Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
*Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life
stages
, In Martha Rogers's theory, which of the following describes the relationship of the parts
of a living organism to the whole organism? - ✔️✔️The whole is greater than the sum
of the parts
The purpose of nursing theory in clinical practice has been to: - ✔️✔️Question what
nurses do
Performance of non-contact therapeutic touch is integral to which nursing theorist? -
✔️✔️Roger
According to Leavall and Clark, primary prevention is focused on: - ✔️✔️Health
promotion and protection against specific health problems
Any variable increasing the vulnerability of an individual or a group to an illness or
accident is a(n): - ✔️✔️Risk Factor
The analogy of "thinking upstream" implies that nurses practicing in the community
should: - ✔️✔️Focus on changing sociopolitical factors to improve health
The goal of theory in nursing is to: - ✔️✔️Encourage the formalization of nursing
concepts
Which of the following is a conceptual model of nursing that constitutes a formal
explanation of what nursing is? - ✔️✔️Roy's Adaptation Model
Who theorized about utilizing the environment of the patient to assist her or him in his
recovery? - ✔️✔️Nightingale
For her, Nursing is a theoretical system of knowledge that prescribes a process of
analysis and action related to care of the ill person - ✔️✔️Roy
According to her, Nursing is a helping or assistive profession to persons who are wholly
or partly dependent or when those who are supposedly caring for them are no longer
able to give care. - ✔️✔️Orem
Nursing is a unique profession, concerned with all the variables affecting an individual's
response to stressors, which are intra, inter and extra personal in nature. -
✔️✔️Neuman
The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the
performance of those activities contributing to health that he would perform unaided if
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