Mid Term Exam

Republic of the Philippines Set 1
Biliran Province State University Serial No.: ______

(formerly NAVAL STATE UNIVERSITY) Seat No. : ______
ISO 9001:2015 CERTIFIED
SCHOOL OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES
NCM 100: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING

Mid-Term Examination
Part 1. Multiple Choice
INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one
answer for each item by shading the corresponding letter of your choice on the
answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil #2
only.
1. Refers to a plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to

explain phenomena.
a. Proposition c. Assumption
b. Theory d. Philosophy
2. Refers to the study of ideas about knowledge, truth, the nature and meaning of life.
a. Proposition c. Assumption
b. Theory d. Philosophy
3. The four nursing metaparadigms are:

a. Person, Environment, Nurse, Health c. Promotive, Preventive, Curative, Rehabilitative
b. Nurse, Person, Environment, Cure d. Person, Environment, Nursing, Health
4. The structural components of a theory are:

a. Concept, Definition, Proposition, Assumption, Phenomenon
b. Concept, Definition, Principle, Assumption, Phenomenon
c. Application, Definition, Principle, Assumption, Phenomenon
d. Application, Definition, Proposition, Assumption, Phenomenon
5. The components of a theory includes the following, EXCEPT:

a. Definition c. Concept
b. Phenomenon d. Principle
6. The four major concepts of nursing metaparadigm includes the following, EXCEPT:
a. Nursing c. Illness
b. Health b. Person
7. Below are the different nursing fields wherein theory development is inherent, EXCEPT:
a. Education c. Study
b. Research d. Practice
8. According to Meleis (2011), which of the following should NOT be described in a developing a
theory?
a. Focus c. Nursing problem
b. Client d. Health promotion
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9. In evaluating a theory following the questions developed by Chinn and Kramer (2011), which
question should be asked?
a. How accessible is the theory? c. What does the theory mean?
b. How specific is the theory? d. How vague is the theory?
10. Person focuses on the patient who is the recipient of care. When assessing a person’s health,
Nurse A knows that wholistic understanding of persons requires knowledge on a person’s:
a. physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects
b. spirituality and culture
c. socioeconomic status
d. all of the above
11. The family of a Schizophrenic patient is important in the recovery of the patient. This situation
is classified in the:
a. Metaparadigm of Person c. Metaparadigm of Environment
b. Metaparadigm of Health d. Metaparadigm of Nursing
12. Nurse A gave Fibuxostat (Urinorm) to a patient with an elevated level of blood urea. This
situation is classified in the:
13. Patient A maintains a healthy disposition by exercising daily and eating well-balanced meal.
This situation is classified in the:
14. After series of laboratory tests, Patient A was diagnosed with Diabetes Type II. Upon knowing
her health condition, Patient A immediately went to a diabetes specialist and seek consultation.
This situation is classified in the:
15. Nurse A participated in a seminar on Theoretical Foundation in Nursing. A workshop required

the identification of metaparadigm and its corresponding description. Which one is CORRECT?
a. Person: encompass a person's spirituality, culture, family and friends only
b. Environment: internal and external factors related to the patient
c. Health: quality and wellness of the patient
d. Nursing: the nurse and how he or she will apply their knowledge and skills when caring for
patients
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Situation: An RN named Jackie starts her shift at 7am on the oncology floor. Today she has
been assigned a new patient with the initials, TJ, who is a 10 years old boy from Brazil,
battling lung cancer and recently admitted to the hospital. As Jackie enters the room, she
immediately begins her assessment and gathers some objective data.
16. Which of the following illustrated “person”?

a. Jackie recognizing the patient's cultural differences as well as accepting and valuing them
without judgment.
b. Rather than solely focusing on treating TJ's cancer, Jackie realized that his mental and spiritual
health needed to also be assessed.
c. Jackie quickly realized that TJ was mentally distraught and felt like a burden to his family and
she was sure to discuss this with his parents to prevent TJ from any further mental anguish.
d. Jackie opened the window to expose nature into the room along with sunlight.
17. Which of the following illustrated “nursing”?

without judgment.
she was sure to discuss this with his parents to prevent T.J from any further mental anguish.
18. Which of the following illustrated “environment”?

without judgment.
19. Which of the following illustrated “health”?

without judgment.
20. All of the following, EXCEPT ONE, are ways to evaluate the value, worth, and significance of a
theory.
a. By identifying the external components of personal, professional, social values, and significance
of a theory
b. By recognizing the usefulness of theory in practice, education, research, and administration
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c. By pinpointing the relations between structure and function of the theory, including clarity,
consistency, and simplicity
d. By classifying the theory according to scope
21. Refers to the study of being, what is or what exists.

a. Deontology c. Epistemology
b. Ontology d. Methodology
22. Refers to the study of the theory of knowledge.

23. Refers to the means of acquiring knowledge.

24. Gina, a nursing student, undergoes Psychological Counselling and Self-Awareness sessions
before his Psychiatric Nursing rotation. This is an example of:
a. Empirical Knowing c. Personal Knowing
b. Aesthetic Knowing d. Ethical Knowing
25. Nurse Pat practices nursing interventions based from accepted clinical practices. This is an
example of:
a. Empirical Knowing c. Personal Knowing
b. Aesthetic Knowing d. Ethical Knowing
26. Knowing and knowledge has different definitions according to Carper (1978). Which of the
following is TRUE?
a. Knowing refers to understanding self in the world.
b. Knowing refers to expressing self in the world.
c. Knowledge is a form of expression.
d. Knowledge refers to expertise in nursing praxis.
27. Ethics is the component of moral knowledge in nursing. Which of the following refers to this
type of knowing?
a. Informed by the response of others c. Therapeutic nurse-patient relationship
b. Confronting and resolving conflicting values d. Knowing what to do without conscious
deliberation
28. Four fundamental patterns of knowing were identified by Carper (1978). This was added by
Chinn and Kramer (2008) with ___________ knowing referred to as the praxis of nursing.
a. educated c. expressive
b. emancipatory d. emulated
29. Referred by Carper (1978) as personal knowing and by Benner (1984) as expert knowledge.
a. Procedural Knower c. Silent Knower
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b. Subjective Knower d. Constructive Knower
30. Valued both subjective and objective strategies of knowing

31. Believed others are capable of producing knowledge that they can follow and reproduce.
32. Which of the following is NOT a problem of Nursing as a practice discipline?

a. Nursing involves dynamic interactions.
b. Nurses in practice know more than they can communicate to others.
c. Empirical knowledge reflects all nursing knowledge.
d. What nurses know has not been communicated well.
33. Which of the following is a reason for developing the patterns of knowing?
a. Create an expert and effective nursing practice
b. Useful in interdisciplinary practice
c. Generate nursing-specific theories
d. None of the above
34. How can you turn knowing into knowledge?

a. Through skills demonstration c. Through evidence-based practice
b. Through classroom orientation d. Through problem-based learning
35. In the earliest stage of the development of nursing theories, there was blind obedience to
medical authority. This is a typical example of:
a. Silent knowledge c. Subjective knowledge
b. Received knowledge d. Procedural knowledge
36. Which of the following is NOT an example of Subjective Knowledge?

a. A negative attitude toward borrowed theories and science emerged.
b. Theories were borrowed from other disciplines.
c. Nurse scholars focused on defining nursing and on developing theories about and for nursing.
d. Nursing research focused on the nurse rather than on clients and clinical situations.
37. As nurses acquired non-nursing doctoral degrees, they relied on the authority of educators,
sociologists, psychologists, physiologists, and anthropologists to provide answers to nursing
problems. This is an example of:
b. Received knowledge d. Constructed knowledge
38. The type of knowledge which recognizes that nursing theory should be based on prior
empirical studies, theoretical literature, client reports of clinical experiences and feelings, and the
nurse scholar’s intuition or related knowledge about the phenomenon of concern is:
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b. Received knowledge d. Constructed knowledge
39. In the second decade of the 21st century, there has been significant attention to the need to
direct nursing knowledge development toward clinical relevance, to address the “relevance gap”
(Risjord, 2010). This stage refers to:
a. Interdisciplinary knowledge c. Integrated knowledge
b. Inter-professional knowledge d. Interdependent knowledge
40. Refers to theory about a theory

a. Metatheory c. Middle Range Theory
b. Grand Theory d. Practice Theory
41. They are nonspecific and are composed of relatively abstract concepts that lack operational
definitions.
42. Substantively specific and encompass a limited number of concepts and a limited aspect of the
real world.
43. Produce specific directions for practice.

44. Which of the following depicts a Descriptive Theory?

a. Theoretical model describing the experience of caring for a dying spouse
b. Theory explaining the effects of music on improved health outcomes
c. A quasi-experimental, model building approach to predict the relationship between spirituality
and health status among adults living with HIV
d. Theory explaining medical acupuncture for nurse practitioners
45. Which of the following depicts a Prescriptive Theory?

46. Which of the following depicts an Explanatory Theory?

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47. Which of the following depicts a Predictive Theory?

48. Explanatory theories, are those that relate concepts to one another, describe the
interrelationships among concepts or propositions, and specify the associations or relationships
among some concepts. An example is:
a. Middle range theory of chronotherapeutic intervention for postsurgical pain
b. Caregiving Effectiveness Model
c. Theory of spirituality-based nursing practice
d. All of the above
49. Descriptive theories are those that describe, observe, and name concepts, properties, and
dimensions. It is generated and tested by descriptive research techniques including:
a. Concept analysis c. Experimental research
b. Correlational research d. All of the above
50. A number of issues related to use of theory in nursing have received significant attention in the
literature. This includes:
a. The question of borrowing—or sharing—theory from other disciplines
b. Caring as a central construct in the discipline of nursing
c. Nursing metaparadigms
d. All of the above
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Part 2. Essay
INSTRUCTION: Write a 150-word essay as an answer to the following question “What do

you think is the theory that should be created for the Nursing profession? METHATHEORY,
GRAND THEORY, MIDDLE-RANGE THEORY, or SPECIFIC THEORY?
Answer:
The theory that shoud be created for Nursing profession is Methatheory. In all nursing theories,
methatheory is the most global type among all, it does not only focuses on specific and limited
disciplines but on a broader issues that addresses proffesion's most important concepts, the
reationships among human beings,the health and environmwnt of nursing it self. It is the core
content of discipline that summarizes intellectual and social missions of a discipline and places a
boundary on the subject matter of that discipine. The concepts of metatheory is directly involved in
the essense of nursing, that is why it is the indicated theory for Nursing profession.The main
components of nursing care is within the context of metatheory, this refers to the quality and wellnes of
patient that is considering the four major concept of nuring, person, health, environment and
nursing.These are essentia factors of addressing patient care problem of patient that connote human
beings as whole rather than the sum of its parts.
Prepared:
ARLENE SANOSA-SUPREMO, Ph.D., R.N.

Course Instructor and DQMR
Date: __________
Reviewed:
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SILLMARK T. BACASON, Ph.D., R.N.

Level Coordinator, School of Nursing and Health Sciences
Date: __________
Approved:
JOVY DIA R. SANIEL, Ph.D.N.Sc.

Dean, School of Nursing and Health Sciences
Date: __________
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Republic of the Philippines Set 1

Biliran Province State University Serial No.: ______

NCM 100: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING

Part 1. Multiple Choice

1. Refers to a plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to

3. The four nursing metaparadigms are:

4. The structural components of a theory are:

5. The components of a theory includes the following, EXCEPT:

Biliran Province State University

15. Nurse A participated in a seminar on Theoretical Foundation in Nursing. A workshop required

Biliran Province State University

16. Which of the following illustrated “person”?

17. Which of the following illustrated “nursing”?

18. Which of the following illustrated “environment”?

19. Which of the following illustrated “health”?

Biliran Province State University

21. Refers to the study of being, what is or what exists.

22. Refers to the study of the theory of knowledge.

23. Refers to the means of acquiring knowledge.

Biliran Province State University

30. Valued both subjective and objective strategies of knowing

32. Which of the following is NOT a problem of Nursing as a practice discipline?

34. How can you turn knowing into knowledge?

36. Which of the following is NOT an example of Subjective Knowledge?

Biliran Province State University

40. Refers to theory about a theory

43. Produce specific directions for practice.

44. Which of the following depicts a Descriptive Theory?

45. Which of the following depicts a Prescriptive Theory?

46. Which of the following depicts an Explanatory Theory?

Biliran Province State University

47. Which of the following depicts a Predictive Theory?

Biliran Province State University

INSTRUCTION: Write a 150-word essay as an answer to the following question “What do

ARLENE SANOSA-SUPREMO, Ph.D., R.N.

Biliran Province State University

SILLMARK T. BACASON, Ph.D., R.N.

JOVY DIA R. SANIEL, Ph.D.N.Sc.

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