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Elscores: Tuesday, 20 August 2024NUR 302 Exam 1
Questions and Correct
Answer
what are the four types of theories and describe each one
✓ :-- descriptive: theory that describes something; gives general information
✓ explain: it explains something (process, etc.)
✓ Predictive: theory that predicts and outcome
✓ Prescriptive: tell the nurse what to do and how to do it; this type is the most
difficult one to develop
(descriptive is the most broad and prescriptive is the most specific)
why do nurses need nursing conceptual models and theories?
✓ :-- 1. organize nursing knowledge
✓ 2. guide inquiry to advance the science of nursing and nursing education
✓ 3. guide nursing practice to provide consistency, enhance communication and patient
care
what is the main difference between a conceptual model and a theory?
✓ :-- level of abstraction
community of scholars (nurses, etc.) that share a commitment to knowledge, values, and
processes to guide the thought and work of nursing
✓ :-- discipline
where do conceptual models and theories come from?
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✓ :-- disciplines
the way we think of things
✓ :-- concepts
1st lady of nursing; pointed out that nursing does not just consist of following doctor's orders;
help patient be as independent as possible
✓ :-- virginia henderson--> Need theory
Need Theory (grand theory)
✓ :-- Virginia Henderson
focus: principles and practice of nursing
(nurses assist patients with 14 activities until they can do them themselves or help them have
a peaceful death)
the unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of
those actives contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would
perform unaided if had the necessary strength, will or knowledge. And to do this in such a
way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible
✓ :-- Need theory
theory related to adaptation; we have external and internal behaviors; patients behaviors are
adaptive or non-adaptive
✓ :-- Callista Roy's Adaptation Theory
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persons are adaptive systems with internal and external environments, whose behaviors may
be adaptive or ineffective responses
*The goal of nursing is* *to promote adaptive responses*
✓ :-- Callista Roy adaptation theory
nurses help a patient cope with or adapt to changes in physiological, self concept, role
function, and interdependence domains
✓ :-- Roy
Grand theory
Focus: adaptation
Transcultural theory
✓ :-- Leininger (has sunrise model)
nurses practice according to the patient's cultural considerations. Your assessment takes a
patient's background into consideration in assessing the patient and his or her health. Once
the assessment is complete, the nurse should use the culture assessment to create a care plan
that also takes their cultural background into consideration
✓ :-- Leininger's transcultural theory
Open systems theory of goal attainment (grand theory)
✓ :-- King
focus: goal attainment
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