Chamberlain University-Illinois
NR 222 NR 222 Exam 2 Chamberlain
Questions and Answers 2026 Latest Update
Autonomy Ans: The ethical tenet that the physician has the responsibility
to respect patients' choices about their own healthcare.
Right to choose, self freedom
Confidentiality Ans: protection of privacy without diminishing access to
quality care
A legal and ethical concept that establishes the healthcare provider's
responsibility for protecting health records and other personal and private
information from unauthorized use or disclosure
Veracity Ans: Adherence to the truth; truthfulness
Fidelity Ans: Faithfulness; loyalty
Nonmaleficence Ans: Avoid causing harm or pain as much as possible when
giving treatments. Principle of avoiding harm
Beneficence Ans: The ethical tenet that the physician has a responsibility to
act in the patient's best interest.
Watson Theory Ans: Human caring Theory- caring to meet human needs
Watson sees caring as central to nursing and only able to be demonstrated
interpersonally. Caring depends on certain factors that satisfy human needs.
Effective caring promotes health and growth.
Show unconditional acceptance.
Use a holistic treatment approach—one that includes treating the mind,
soul, and spirit as well as the body).
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Spend uninterrupted time with patients - something Watson calls "caring
moments."
Promote health through knowledge and intervention
Leininger's Theory Ans: Transcultural nursing focuses on the analyses of
different cultures in the world regarding their caring behavior, nursing care,
health-illness values, with the goal of developing a scientific and humanistic
body of knowledge from which to derive culture-specific and culture
universal nursing care practices.
Madeleine Leininger involves knowing and understanding different cultures
with respect to nursing and health-illness caring practices, beliefs and
values with the goal to provide meaningful and efficacious nursing care
services to people according to their culture beliefs.
Orems Theory Ans: patient should do what they can independently, we
ASSIT and SUPPORT patient where they have trouble
Health Promotion Model Ans: Extends the health belief model to include
determinants of health promoting behaviour and includes self-efficacy
theory
Pender
Transtheoretical Model Ans: six stages in the change process:
precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and
termination
Health Belief Ans: likelihood of engaging in health-promoting behavior
-Suggests that an individual's decision to adopt healthy behaviors is based
upon their perception of susceptibility to an illness (& severity of illness
Basic Human Needs Ans: The fundamental needs of people for adequate
food, shelter, health care, sanitation, and education. Meeting such needs
may be thought of as both a moral imperative and a form of investment in
"human capital" essential for economic growth.
Holistic Health Model Ans: Attempts to create conditions that promote
optimal health, and consider clients the ultimate expert on their own health.
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