Theoretical Foundations of Nursing: Prelim Quiz 1

THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING
PRELIM QUIZ 1
1. Founded by the Brotherhood of Misericordia and administered by the Hospitaliers

of San Juan de Dios; support was delivered from alms and rents; rendered general
health service to the public.
ANSWER: SAN JUAN DE DIOS HOSPITAL
2. It was established mainly to care for the Spanish king’s soldiers, but also admitted
Spanish civilians; founded by Gov. Francisco de Sande.
ANSWER: HOSPITAL REAL DE MANILA
3. Established by the Franciscan Order; service was in general supported by alms and
contributions from charitable persons.
ANSWER: HOSPITAL DE INDIOS
4. Founded by Brother Juan Clemente and was administered for many years by the
Hospitalliers of San Juan de Dios; built exclusively for patients with leprosy.
ANSWER: SAN LAZARO HOSPITAL
5. Established in Laguna; near a medicinal spring, founded by Brother J. Bautista of

the Franciscan Order.
ANSWER: HOSPITAL DE AGUAS SANTAS

PRELIM QUIZ 2
1. The act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery is theorized by
ANSWER: NIGHTINGALE
2. Caring involves 5 processes, KNOWING, BEING WITH, DOING FOR, ENABLING and MAINTAINING
BELIEF.
ANSWER: SWANSON
3. Caring is the essence and central unifying, a dominant domain that distinguishes nursing from other health
disciplines. Care is an essential human need.
ANSWER: LEININGER
4. 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.
ANSWER: NEUMAN
5. Caring is healing, it is communicated through the consciousness of the nurse to the individual being cared for.
It allows access to higher human spirit.
ANSWER: WATSON
6. 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 he has the necessary strength, will and knowledge, and
do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible.
ANSWER: HENDERSON
7. Caring means that person, events, projects and things matter to people. It reveals stress and coping options.
Caring creates responsibility. It is an inherent feature of nursing practice. It helps the nurse assist clients to
recover in the face of the illness.
ANSWER: BENNER
8. The four major concepts in nursing theory are the
ANSWER: PERSON, ENVIRONMENT, NURSING, HEALTH
9. 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.
ANSWER: OREM
10. For her, Nursing is a theoretical system of knowledge that prescribes a process of analysis and action related to
care of the ill person
ANSWER: ROY
PRELIM EXAMINATION
1. A community health nurse is working with a variety 8. According to this theory goal of nursing is to help
of clients and decides to use a Systems theory the person adapt to the changes in physiological
approach to assist them to meet their health care needs, self-concept, role function and
needs. In using the Systems theory, the nurse focuses interdependent relations during health and illness.
on the:
ANSWER: ROY’S THEORY
ANSWER: CLIENT’S INTERACTION WITH THE
ENVIRONMENT 9. Theories will be tested to describe or predict client
outcomes is an example of
2. Validity and predictability of nursing interventions
are related to ANSWER: ADDRESSING NURSING AS A
SCIENCE OR AS EVIDENCED-BASED PRACTICE
ANSWER: PRESCRIPTIVE THEORIES
10. Nursing continues to grow as a profession. Theories
3. __________________ theories address nursing generate nursing knowledge and are used to
interventions for a phenomenon and prescribe specific interventions to improve client
__________________the consequence of a specific outcomes. The overall goal of nursing knowledge is
nursing intervention. to explain the practice of nursing as
ANSWER: PRESCRIPTIVE THEORIES/PREDICT ANSWER: DIFFERENT AND DISTINCT FROM

THE CONSEQUENCE THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY,
AND SOCIAL WORK
4. A ________________________ is a set of concepts,
definitions, relationships, and assumptions that:
11. Evidence-based nursing practice is the end result of

ANSWER: A THEORY EXPLAINS A
PHENOMENON.
ANSWER: THEORY-GENERATING AND
5. If the nurse wanted to apply a theory that focused THEORY-TESTING RESEARCH
on stress reduction, a theory proposed by which one
of the following individuals should be selected? 12. The nurse is working within a health care system
that uses Neuman’s theory. A client is having
difficulty breathing and requires oxygen and
ANSWER: NEUMAN
medication. Within Neuman’s theory, the nurse
6. Different types of theories may be used by nurses approaches the client to:
seeking to study the basis of nursing practice. When
the goal of a theory is to speculate on why ANSWER: STRENGTHEN THE LINE OF
phenomena occur, it is termed a: DEFENSES AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL OF
PREVENTION
ANSWER:
13. Nursing's paradigm includes:
7. Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human
responses to actual or potential health problems. ANSWER: THE PERSON, HEALTH,
Health has different meanings for each client and is ENVIRONMENT/SITUATION, AND NURSING
14. The nursing process is an example of an open

ANSWER: DYNAMIC AND CONTINUOUSLY
system. An open system
CHANGING
ANSWER: INTERACTS WITH THE

ENVIRONMENT BY EXCHANGING
INFORMATION
15. Evidence-based nursing practice is the end result of care in wound management is using the theory
developed by:
THEORY-TESTING RESEARCH ANSWER: DOROTHEA OREM
16. To practice in today's health care environment, 25. Some nursing theories use a systems theory as a
nurses need a strong scientific knowledge base in base. As a system, the nursing process has the
nursing and other disciplines, such as the physical, following components:
social, and behavioral sciences. This relates to which
of the following? ANSWER: INPUT, OUTPUT, FEEDBACK AND
CONTENT
ANSWER: INTERDISCIPLINARY THEORIES
26. A similarity in the theories of Leininger and Benner
17. Which one of the four linkages of interest in the and Wrubel is
nursing paradigm refers to factors in the home or
school? ANSWER: CARING AS A CENTRAL FOCUS
ANSWER: ENVIRONMENT/SITUATION 27. Nursing's goal is to educate the client and family
and to help the client reach mature personality
18. The theory that involves care and helps the client development. This focus on the individual, the nurse
attain total self-care is: and the interactive process is an example of which
nursing theory?
ANSWER: OREM’S THEORY
ANSWER: PEPLAU’S THEORY
19. Although the nursing process is central to nursing, it
is not a theory. The nursing process provides a: 28. The phenomena within this theory tend to cross
different nursing fields and reflect a wide variety of
ANSWER: SYSTEMATIC PROCESS FOR THE nursing care situations, such as uncertainty,
DELIVERY OF NURSING CARE incontinence, social support, quality of life and
caring. Mishel's theory provides a basis to assist
20. The theory that involves care and helps the client clients in coping with uncertainty and the illness
attain total self-care is: response. This is an example of what theory?
ANSWER: OREM’S THEORY ANSWER: MID RANGED

21. In preparing to review different theories, the nurse 29. Although similarities exist in the different nursing
reviews basic information to assist in understanding theories, key elements distinguish one from another.
the material. Theories are defined as: The emphasis of Jean Watson’s conceptual model is
that:
ANSWER: CONCEPTS OR PROPOSITIONS THAT
PROJECT A SYSTEMATIC VIEW OF ANSWER: CARING IS CENTRAL TO THE
PHENOMENA ESSENCE OF NURSING
22. The nursing paradigm identifies four linkages of 30. The nursing paradigm identifies four linkages of
interest to the nursing profession. These four interest to the nursing profession. These four
linkages are: linkages are:
ANSWER: THE PERSON, HEALTH, ANSWER: THE PERSON, HEALTH,

ENVIRONMENT/SITUATION, AND NURSING ENVIRONMENT/SITUATION, AND NURSING
23. Martha Roger’s theory has a framework for
practice that includes the:
ANSWER: UNITARY HUMAN BEING IN

CONTINUOUS INTERACTION WITH THE
ENVIRONMENT
24. While working on a postoperative unit, the nurse is

applying the elements of the Self-Care theory. The
nurse who assists the client to manage or attain self-
MIDTERM QUIZ 1
1. A community health nurse is working with a ANSWER: PEPLAU’S THEORY

variety of clients and decides to use a Systems theory
approach to assist them to meet their health care 8. While working on a postoperative unit, the nurse is
needs. In using the Systems theory, the nurse focuses applying the elements of the Self-Care theory. The
on the: nurse who assists the client to manage or attain self-
care in wound management is using the theory
ANSWER: CLIENT’S INTERACTION WITH THE developed by:
ENVIRONMENT
ANSWER: DOROTHEA OREM
2. The nursing paradigm identifies four linkages of
interest to the nursing profession. These four 9. To practice in today's health care environment,
linkages are: nurses need a strong scientific knowledge base in
nursing and other disciplines, such as the physical,
ANSWER: THE PERSON, HEALTH, social, and behavioral sciences. This relates to which
ENVIRONMENT/SITUATION, AND NURSING of the following?
3. A similarity in the theories of Leininger and Benner ANSWER: INTERDISCIPLINARY THEORIES

and Wrubel is:
10. Evidence-based nursing practice is the end result of
ANSWER: CARING AS A CENTRAL FOCUS
4. Some nursing theories use a systems theory as a THEORY-TESTING RESEARCH
base. As a system, the nursing process has the
following components: 11. Although similarities exist in the different nursing
theories, key elements distinguish one from another.
ANSWER: INPUT, OUTPUT, FEEDBACK AND The emphasis of Jean Watson’s conceptual model is
CONTENT that:
5. Nursing continues to grow as a profession. Theories ANSWER: CARING IS CENTRAL TO THE

generate nursing knowledge and are used to ESSENCE OF NURSING
prescribe specific interventions to improve client
outcomes. The overall goal of nursing knowledge is 12. The theory that involves care and helps the client
to explain the practice of nursing as attain total self-care is
ANSWER: DIFFERENT AND DISTINCT FROM ANSWER: OREM’S THEORY

THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY,
13. Nursing's paradigm includes
AND SOCIAL WORK
6. If the nurse wanted to apply a theory that focused ANSWER: THE PERSON, HEALTH,
on stress reduction, a theory proposed by which one ENVIRONMENT/SITUATION, AND NURSING
of the following individuals should be selected?
14. Different types of theories may be used by nurses
seeking to study the basis of nursing practice. When
ANSWER: NEUMAN
the goal of a theory is to speculate on why
7. Nursing's goal is to educate the client and family phenomena occur, it is termed a:
and to help the client reach mature personality
development. This focus on the individual, the nurse ANSWER: DESCRIPTIVE THEORY
and the interactive process is an example of which
nursing theory?
__________________the consequence of a specific
nursing intervention.
ANSWER: PRESCRIPTIVE THEORIES/PREDICT

15. The nurse is working within a health care system THE CONSEQUENCE
that uses Neuman’s theory. A client is having
difficulty breathing and requires oxygen and 23. Evidence-based nursing practice is the end result of
medication. Within Neuman’s theory, the nurse
approaches the client to: ANSWER: THEORY-GENERATING AND
THEORY-TESTING RESEARCH
ANSWER: STRENGTHEN THE LINE OF
24. Martha Roger’s theory has a framework for
DEFENSES AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL OF
practice that includes the
PREVENTION
16. The nursing paradigm identifies four linkages of ANSWER: UNITARY HUMAN BEING IN
interest to the nursing profession. These four CONTINUOUS INTERACTION WITH THE
linkages are: ENVIRONMENT
25. Validity and predictability of nursing interventions

ANSWER: THE PERSON, HEALTH,
are related to
ENVIRONMENT/SITUATION, AND NURSING
17. Although the nursing process is central to nursing, ANSWER: PRESCRIPTIVE THEORIES
it is not a theory. The nursing process provides a:
26. The theory that involves care and helps the client
attain total self-care is
ANSWER: SYSTEMATIC PROCESS FOR THE
DELIVERY OF NURSING CARE
ANSWER: OREMS THEORY
18. A ________________________ is a set of concepts,
27. The nursing process is an example of an open
definitions, relationships, and assumptions that:
system. An open system
ANSWER: A THEORY EXPLAINS A

ANSWER: INTERACTS WITH THE
PHENOMENON
ENVIRONMENT BY EXCHANGING
19. Theories will be tested to describe or predict client INFORMATION
outcomes is an example of
28. The phenomena within this theory tend to cross
different nursing fields and reflect a wide variety of
ANSWER: ADDRESSING NURSING AS A
nursing care situations, such as uncertainty,
SCIENCE OR AS EVIDENCED-BASED
incontinence, social support, quality of life and
PRACTICE.
caring. Mishel's theory provides a basis to assist
20. Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human clients in coping with uncertainty and the illness
responses to actual or potential health problems. response. This is an example of what theory?
Health has different meanings for each client and is
ANSWER: MID RANGED
ANSWER: DYNAMIC AND CONTINUOUSLY
29. According to this theory goal of nursing is to help
CHANGING
the person adapt to the changes in physiological
21. In preparing to review different theories, the nurse needs, self-concept, role function and
reviews basic information to assist in understanding interdependent relations during health and illness.
the material. Theories are defined as:
ANSWER: ROY’S THEORY
ANSWER: CONCEPTS OR PROPOSITIONS THAT
30. Which one of the four linkages of interest in the
PROJECT A SYSTEMATIC VIEW OF
nursing paradigm refers to factors in the home or
PHENOMENA
school?
22. __________________ theories address nursing
interventions for a phenomenon and ANSWER:ENVIRONMENT/SITUATION
MIDTERM QUIZ 2
1. According to her, health was taken to mean balance in all realms of human life
ANSWER: HENDERSON
2. She defines health as an expression of the life process
ANSWER: ROGERS
3. The environment has physical, chemical and biological features. It includes the family, culture and
community
ANSWER: OREM
4. She considers nursing to be a significant, therapeutic, interpersonal process
ANSWER: PEPLAU
5. She defines a person that he is an organism that “strives in its own way to reduce tension generated by
needs
ANSWER: PEPLAU
6. Health is being structurally and functionally whole or sound
ANSWER: OREM
7. She stated that “maintaining a supportive environment conducive for health is one of the elements of her
14 activities for client assistance
ANSWER: HENDERSON
8. “What nursing has to do… is put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.”
ANSWER: NIGHTINGALE
9. Human being is valued person to be cared for, respect, nurtures, understood, and assisted; in general a
philosophical view a person as a fully functional integrated self.
ANSWER: WATSON
10. Nursing is a process of action, reaction. And interaction whereby nurse and client share information about
their perceptions in the nursing situation
ANSWER: KING
MIDTERM EXAMINATION
1. is the perspective or territory of a profession or discipline.
ANSWER: DOMAIN
2. Beliefs and values that define a way of thinking and are generally known and understood by a group
or discipline.
ANSWER: PHILOSOPHY
3. Kristen Swanson defines nursing as informed caring for the well-being of others.
ANSWER: TRUE
4. is the most general statement of discipline and functions as a framework in which the more
restricted structures of conceptual models develop.
ANSWER: METAPARADIGM
5. are a series of organized steps, changes or functions intended to bring about the desired result.
ANSWER: PROCESS
6. One of the purposes of nursing theories is to develop a theory that is fundamental to the research
process where it is necessary to use theory as a framework to provide perspective and guidance to
the research study.
ANSWER: TRUE
7. Joyce travelbee developed the CARE< CURE CORE THEORY.
ANSWER: FALSE
8. Descriptive theories are the first level of theory development. They describe the phenomena and
identify its properties and components in which it occurs.
ANSWER: TRUE
9. refers to a pattern of shared understanding and assumptions about reality and the world;
worldview or widely accepted value system.
ANSWER: PARADIGM
10. is a group of related ideas, statements, or concepts. It is often used interchangeably with the
conceptual model and with grand theories.
ANSWER: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
11. A belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed at the basic of action.
ANSWER: THEORY
12. match the description to its proponent

 Peaceful End-of-Life Theory
ANSWER : CORNWLIA M RULAND AND SHIRLEY M MOORE
 Behavioral system model
ANSWER: DOROTHY JOHNSON
 Viewed nursing as both a science and an art as it provides a way to view the unitary human being,
who is integral with the universe
ANSWER: MARTHA ROGERS
 Typology of 21 nursing problems
ANSWER: FAYE ABDELLAH
 Theory of interpersonal relations
ANSWER: HILDEGARD PEPLAU
 Stress reduction is the goal of the system model of nursing practice
ANSWER: BETTY NEUMAN
 Theory of Comfort
ANSWER: KATHARINE KOLCABA
 Theory of goal attainment to Nurse-patient relationship
ANSWER: IMOGENE KING
 Symphonological Bioethical Theory
ANSWER: GLADYS L. HUSTED
 Postpartum Depression Theory
ANSWER: CHERYL TATANO BECK
 Nursing need theory

ANSWER: VIRGINIA HENDERSON
 Environmental Theory
ANSWER: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
 States in her theory that nursing care is required if the client is unable to fill biological,
psychological, developmental, or social needs
ANSWER: DOROTHEA OREM
 Caring highlighted humanistic aspects of nursing
ANSWER: JEAN WATSON
 Self-Transcendence Theory
ANSWER: PAMELA G REED
13. are representation of the interaction among and between the concepts showing patterns.
ANSWER: MODELS
14. Definitions are not important in nursing theories because not useful in creating theories.
ANSWER: FALSE
15. are statements that describe the relationship between the concepts.
ANSWER: PROPOSITION
16. are often called the blocks of theories. They are primarily the vehicles of thought that involve
images.
ANSWER: CONCEPT
PRE-FINAL QUIZ 1
1. Pertaining to interpersonal, family, and
societal relationships (finances, teaching, 6. Transpersonally
health care personnel, etc.) Also to family ANSWER: CONNECT WITH NATURE
traditions, rituals, and religious practices.
ANSWER: SOCIOCULTURAL 7. Theory of Unpleasant Symptoms
ANSWER: LENZ AND COLLEAGUES

2. Pertaining to the external background
of
8. Theory of Comfort
human experience (temperature, light, sound,
ANSWER: KATHARINE KOLCABA
odor, color, furniture, landscape, etc.)
ANSWER: ENVIRONMENTAL
9. Theory of Uncertainty in Illness
ANSWER:MERLE H. MISHEL
3. Interpersonally
ANSWER: CONNECT WITH OTHERS

10. Self-Transcendence Theory
ANSWER: PAMELA G. REED

4. Intrapersonally
ANSWER: CONNECT WITHIN SELF
5. Pertaining to internal awareness of self,
including esteem, identity, sexuality, meaning
in one’s life, and one’s understood relationship
to a higher order or being.
ANSWER:PSYCHOSPIRITUAL
PRE-FINAL QUIZ 2
1. A type of comfort described as the state of having a specific comfort need met.
ANSWER: RELIEF
2. A type of comfort in which there is the state of calm or contentment.
ANSWER: EASE
3. Merle H. Mishel’s theory can be used in the following fields of nursing except:
ANSWER:
4. How many parts are there in Kolcaba’s theory?
ANSWER:
5. What are the four dimensions of Symptoms?
ANSWER: TIMING, INTENSITY, QUALITY, DISTRESS

6. A type of comfort described as the state in which one can rise above problems or
pain.
ANSWER: TRANSCENDENCE
7. Context in which comfort occurs: pertaining to bodily sensations, homeostatic
mechanisms, immune function, etc
ANSWER: PHYSICAL
PRE-FINAL EXAMINATION
ANSWER: THEY ARE MORE ABSTRACT

1. According to the author, why do philosophies of 5. A person who wished to become a nurse in
nursing in general have multiple components? 1953 would
ANSWER: * ALL OF THE ABOVE ANSWER: USE QUALITATIVE RESEACH METHODS

IN HIS OR HER ACADEMIC CAREER
 BECAUSE NURSING PHILOSOPHIES
EXPLORE BOTH THE PROFESSIONAL 6. According to the author, what are technical skills,
AVTIVITIES AND PERSONAL BEHAVIOR personal growth, and moral behavior all part of?
OF A NUSE
 BECAUSE NURSE THEORISTS ARE ANSWER: PHILOSOPHY
ATTEMPTING TO REACH NURSES
7. Based on the information provided, it could be
FROM VARIOUS CULTURES
said that the study of nursing philosophy requires
 BECAUSE NURSING PRACTICE SPANS
MANY DIFFERENT DOMAINS ANSWER: ARTISTIC ABILITY
2. Many early nurse theorists noted that the first
step in developing their theories began with 8. Older theories will be:
ANSWER: TESTING ANSWER: EXPLORED FOR RELEVANCY TO

TODAYS NURSING PRACTICE
3. Thomas and Victoria are nursing students who
are having a heated debate over an idea 9. The key to progress with theory generation lies in
contained in Henderson's nursing philosophy. the ability of nurses to:
What is a good first step for them to try in an
ANSWER: CREATE THEIR OWN THEORIES OF
attempt to find some common ground?
PRACTICE
ANSWER: * ALL OF THE ABOVE 10. A nurse may have difficulty implementing a
 ACCEPT THAT NURSING middle-range theory that
PHILOSOPHIES ARE MEANT TO BE
ANSWER: * ALL OF THE ABOVE
CONTENTIOUS
 ANALYZE THE KEY POINT OVER  HAS APPLICABILITY IN MANY
WHICH THEY DISAGREE MORE DIFFERENT NURSING
CAREFULLY ENVIRONMENTS
 FIND THE OVERALL THEME OF THE  DOES NOT SUPPORT PERSONAL
PHILOSOPHY THAT TIES ITS IDEAS EXPERIENCE
TOGETHER.  RESULTS IN AN INTENDEED
OUTCOME
4. Based on what you have learned in the text, 11. To be considered a middle-range theory, what
which of the following could be said about does a nursing theory require?
middle-range nursing theory theories as
compared to grand nursing theories? ANSWER: TIES TO PRE-EXISTING NURSING
THEORIES
12. Which of the following is the best term to SUPPORTED BY A BODY OF
describe a nursing theory? RESEARCH
 IT HELPS IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF
ANSWER: DYNAMIC NURSING CARE
13. John, a practicing nurse, is curious about why  IT HELPS STIMULATE NEW WAYS OF
more Asian pediatric clients are coming to his THINKING ABOUT WAYS TO
clinic for treatment for asthma symptoms. Which APPROACH CLIENT CARE
of the following is an example of how nursing 17. Which of the following is based on the
theory may be relevant to John's observation? assumption that objective truth can be
discovered through rigorous observation and
ANSWER: * ALL OF THE ABOVE experimentation?
 JOHN SEARCHES NURSING ANSWER: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

JOURNALSTO SEE IF THE STUDENTS
HAVE BEEN DONE ON THE 18. Middle-range theories are based on;
PREVALENCE OF ASTHMA IN ASIAN
CHILDREN
 JOHN BEGINS RECORDING DATA  RESEARCH
ABOUT THE PATIENTS HE  OBSERVATION
ENCOUNTERS  PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
 JOHN DISCUSSES HIS
OBSERVATIONS WITH THE OTHER 19. Theories that consider the phenomenon of
NURSES IN THE PUBLIC nursing in general
14. If a nurse discovers that a nursing theory does not
support her personal observations, this means ANSWER: DISCUSS SPECIFIC CLIENT CARE
the theory is METHODS THAT HAVE SHOWN RELIABLE
OUTCOMES
ANSWER: * NONE OF THE ABOVE
20. According to the author, which approach to
 OUTDATED nursing research is the best?
 INACCURATE
 VALID ANSWER: THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
15. Nursing theorists: 21. Which of the following would be the most likely
subject of a middle-range nursing theory?
ANSWER: SEE CARING AS THE CENTRAL
CONCEPT IN NURSING ANSWER: NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP
16. In which of the following ways does the existence 22. When did viewing science, theory building, and
of nursing theories benefit a practicing nurse? the generation of knowledge as a process rather
than the means to a solution become more
common in some academic circles
 IT ESTABLISHES NURSING AS A
SCHOLARLY PROFESSION ANSWER: 1950S
FINAL’S QUIZ 1
1. When did the transcultural nursing movement first begin as a result of Leininger's insights?
ANSWER: 1950’S
2. Culture is spread among communities through transmission, sharing, and which of the following?
ANSWER: IT IS LEARNED
3. Assisting others with real or anticipated needs in an effort to improve a human condition of concern or to
face death.
ANSWER: CARE
4. Which of the following is necessary for culturally congruent care to occur within the nurse-client
relationship?
ANSWER: THE NURSE AND THE CLIENT WORK TOGETHER TO DESIGN LIFESTYLE GOALS THAT WILL
IMPROVE THE CLIENT'S HEALTH.
5. A nurse who works with a client to help her modify her diet to eliminate many of the high-fat foods she has
traditionally eaten is participating in the process of culture care
ANSWER: REPATTERNING
6. According to Leininger's theory,_____ is a state of being that is both culturally defined and valued.
ANSWER: HEALTH
7. Madeleine Leininger considers ___to be the central component and essence of nursing.
ANSWER: CARE
8. The manner in which people look at the world around them and then develop a personal idea of what life is
about is known as a
ANSWER: WORLDVIEW
9. Actions of a nurse that help a client incorporate some of his core cultural care values into his plan of care
would be referred to as:
ANSWER: CULTURAL CARE PRESERVATION.
10. Nursing care activities that help people of particular cultures to retain and use core cultural care values
related to healthcare concerns or conditions.
ANSWER: CULTURAL CARE PRESERVATION

FINAL’S QUIZ 2
1. Which of the following is true about a nursing theory?
ANSWER: THE CATEGORY IN WHICH IT FITS DEPENDS ON HOW IT IS INTERPRETED
2. Which of the following is not considered a productive learning approach when

examining nursing theory?
ANSWER: LISTENING
3. According to the author, a nurse theorist is inevitably influenced in some way by his
or her ________ environment.
 POLITICAL
 PROFESSIONAL
 SOCIAL
4. Nursing theory may be credited for which of the following?
 CREATING A FRAMEWORK FOR INQUIRY

 DEVELOPING A PROFESSIONAL BODY OF KNOWLEDGE
 ADVANCING NURSING SCHOLARSHIP
5. According to the author, which is the best definition of nursing theory?
ANSWER: AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN PATTERNS AND RELATIONSHIPS FOUND IN

NURSING PHENOMENA
FINAL EXAMINATION
1. According to Nightingale's philosophy, a nurse ANSWER: CARLA OBSERVES THAT BONITA IS

should consider which of the following factors FATIGUED AS A RESULT OF HER
when caring for a person who is ill? CHEMOTHERAPY AND ATTEMPTS TO MAKE HER
MORE COMFORTABLE SO SHE MAY REST.
ANSWER: THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THE
PERSON LIVES 8. According to Nightingale's philosophy, a nurse
should consider which of the following factors
2. How might a nurse assess the psychospiritual when caring for a person who is ill?
comfort needs of a patient who has just had a
mastectomy? ANSWER: BOTH A AND C
ANSWER: BY LISTENING TO THE WAY THE  Nature causes a person to become

PATIENT DESCRIBES HERSELF ill as a punishment for immoral
behavior.
3. Virginia Henderson is still fondly referred to as
 Nature causes a person to become
the
ill as a reaction to other factors.
 Nature plays a role in healing.
ANSWER: FIRST LADY OF NURSING
9. Nightingale's philosophy may be credited for
4. Based on the overview of Henderson's formulating early ideas about which of the
philosophy presented in the chapter, it would following concepts?
be most accurate to consider her theory as a
ANSWER: WHOLISM
ANSWER: NEEDS THEORY
10. Henderson's philosophy would be useful for a
5. Henderson personally credited what former nurse in which of the following situations?
experience as influencing her views of
nursing? ANSWER: ASSISTING A NURSE IN SELECTING
SPECIFIC INTERVENTIONS THAT WOULD ASSIST
ANSWER: HER WORK WITH THE HENRY STREET A PATIENT IN MEETING A GOAL.
SETTLEMENT
11. Which of the following is the best summary of
6. Working with a pregnant patient on breathing Nightingale's opinion of nurses in relation to
techniques during the transition stage of labor physicians?
would be an example of which type of
comfort? ANSWER: NURSES HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY
TO PROVIDE PHYSICIANS WITH ACCURATE
ANSWER: TRANSCENDENCE INFORMATION ABOUT CLIENTS.
7. Carla is a nurse who is caring for Bonita, a 12. Nightingale considered disease to be a
cancer patient. Which of the following
statements provides the best example of ANSWER: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED
Henderson's philosophy in respect to Carla's
care for her patient?

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THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING

1. Founded by the Brotherhood of Misericordia and administered by the Hospitaliers

ANSWER: SAN JUAN DE DIOS HOSPITAL

ANSWER: HOSPITAL REAL DE MANILA

ANSWER: HOSPITAL DE INDIOS

ANSWER: SAN LAZARO HOSPITAL

5. Established in Laguna; near a medicinal spring, founded by Brother J. Bautista of

ANSWER: HOSPITAL DE AGUAS SANTAS

8. The four major concepts in nursing theory are the

ANSWER: PERSON, ENVIRONMENT, NURSING, HEALTH

ANSWER: PRESCRIPTIVE THEORIES/PREDICT ANSWER: DIFFERENT AND DISTINCT FROM

11. Evidence-based nursing practice is the end result of

14. The nursing process is an example of an open

ANSWER: INTERACTS WITH THE

ANSWER: OREM’S THEORY ANSWER: MID RANGED

ANSWER: THE PERSON, HEALTH, ANSWER: THE PERSON, HEALTH,

ANSWER: UNITARY HUMAN BEING IN

24. While working on a postoperative unit, the nurse is

1. A community health nurse is working with a ANSWER: PEPLAU’S THEORY

3. A similarity in the theories of Leininger and Benner ANSWER: INTERDISCIPLINARY THEORIES

5. Nursing continues to grow as a profession. Theories ANSWER: CARING IS CENTRAL TO THE

ANSWER: DIFFERENT AND DISTINCT FROM ANSWER: OREM’S THEORY

ANSWER: PRESCRIPTIVE THEORIES/PREDICT

25. Validity and predictability of nursing interventions

ANSWER: A THEORY EXPLAINS A

2. She defines health as an expression of the life process

4. She considers nursing to be a significant, therapeutic, interpersonal process

6. Health is being structurally and functionally whole or sound

1. is the perspective or territory of a profession or discipline.

7. Joyce travelbee developed the CARE< CURE CORE THEORY.

11. A belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed at the basic of action.

12. match the description to its proponent

ANSWER : CORNWLIA M RULAND AND SHIRLEY M MOORE

 Behavioral system model

ANSWER: DOROTHY JOHNSON

ANSWER: MARTHA ROGERS

 Typology of 21 nursing problems

ANSWER: FAYE ABDELLAH

 Theory of interpersonal relations

ANSWER: HILDEGARD PEPLAU

 Stress reduction is the goal of the system model of nursing practice

ANSWER: BETTY NEUMAN

ANSWER: KATHARINE KOLCABA

 Theory of goal attainment to Nurse-patient relationship

ANSWER: IMOGENE KING

 Symphonological Bioethical Theory

ANSWER: GLADYS L. HUSTED

 Postpartum Depression Theory

ANSWER: CHERYL TATANO BECK

 Nursing need theory

ANSWER: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

ANSWER: DOROTHEA OREM

 Caring highlighted humanistic aspects of nursing

ANSWER: JEAN WATSON

ANSWER: PAMELA G REED

1. Pertaining to interpersonal, family, and

societal relationships (finances, teaching, 6. Transpersonally

ANSWER: SOCIOCULTURAL 7. Theory of Unpleasant Symptoms

ANSWER: LENZ AND COLLEAGUES

ANSWER: CONNECT WITH OTHERS

ANSWER: PAMELA G. REED

ANSWER: CONNECT WITHIN SELF

5. Pertaining to internal awareness of self,