NSGD 3006 Test #2 Questions with Answers (100%
Correct Answers)
Watson is explicit in her appreciation of the linkages between ________
_______ and the _____ we are currently forging. Answer: nursing's history,
path
Watson based on 10 carative factors that formed a framework for
Answer: nursing practice
Watson's theory emerged as a contrast to the focus on _____ and was
developed as a means to communicate nursing's unique (4) Answer:
"cure", values, knowledge, practices, and mission to society.
_______ based her theory on an appreciation of the life-world of the
experiencing person and her belief in the need for subjective, person-
centred, healing processes. Answer: Watson
Practice of loving-kindness and equanimity within context of caring
consciousness (Carative factor) Answer: Formation of humanistic-
altruistic system of values
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Being authentically present, and enabling and sustaining the deep
belief system and subjective life world of self and one-being-cared-for
(Carative factor) Answer: Instillation of faith-hope
Cultivation of one's own spiritual practices and transpersonal self, going
beyond ego self (Carative factor) Answer: Cultivation of sensitivity to
one's self and to others
Developing and sustaining a helping-trusting, authentic caring
relationship (Carative factor) Answer: Development of a helping-
trusting, human caring relationship
Being present to, and supportive of, the expression of positive and
negative feelings as a connection with deeper spirit of self and the one-
being-cared-for (Carative factor) Answer: Promotion and acceptance of
the expression of positive and negative feelings
Creative use of self and all ways of knowing as part of the caring
process; engagement in artistry of caring-healing practices (Carative
factor) Answer: Systematic use of a creative problem-solving caring
process
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Engaging in genuine teaching-learning experience that attends to unity
of being and meaning attempting to stay within other's frame of
reference (Carative factor) Answer: Promotion of transpersonal
teaching-learning
Creating a healing environment at all levels, (physical as well as non-
physical, subtle environment of energy and consciousness, whereby
wholeness, beauty, comfort, dignity, and peace are potentiated
(Carative factor) Answer: Provision of a supportive, protective, and/or
corrective mental, physical, societal, and spiritual environment
Assisting with basic needs, with an intentional caring consciousness,
administering 'human care essentials,' which potentiate alignment of
mind/body/spirit, wholeness, and unity of being in all aspects of care;
tending to both embodied spirit and evolving spiritual emergence
(Carative factor) Answer: Assistance with gratification of human needs
Opening and attending to spiritual-mysterious, and existential
dimensions of one's own life-death; soul care for self and the one-
being-cared-for (Carative factor) Answer: Allowance for existential-
phenomenological-spiritual forces
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