Chapter 05: Theories of Nursing Practice
Cherry: Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and Management, 9th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which nursing theory might a nurse use as a conceptual framework to determine how to meet
the needs of immigrants while ensuring provision of high-quality and culturally sensitive
care?
a. Martha Rogers‘ nursing theory
b. Dorothea Orem‘s nursing theory
c. Hildegard Peplau‘s nursing theory
d. Madeleine Leininger‘s nursing theory
ANS: D
Madeleine Leininger proposed the theory of cultural care diversity and universality. This
theory of transcultural nursing comprises concepts involving caring and the components of a
cultural care theory: diversity, universality, worldview, and ethnohistory. None of the other
options are directly associated with cultural diversity and sensitivity.
DIF:Comprehension
2. What term is used to identify the process used to determine the relationships among related
concepts and a common theme? a. Hypothesis
b. Model
c. Construct
d. Variable
ANS: B
A model is a group of concepts that are associated because of their relevance to a common
theme. None of the other terms relate to this process.
DIF:Application
3. The statement, ―Nursing is a caring profession that focuses on helping people be as healthy
as possible,‖ is an example of what term? a. Concept
b. Construct
c. Philosophy
d. Model
ANS: C
A philosophy is the values and beliefs of the discipline. The statement presents a value and
belief associated with nursing.
, DIF:Comprehension
4. Which nursing theory served as the foundation for nursing science?
a. Rogers‘ science of unitary human beings
b. Nightingale‘s theory of practice
c. Watson‘s theory of human caring
d. King‘s theory of goal attainment
ANS: B
Florence Nightingale investigated the effect of the environment on healing, and this serves as
the foundation for nursing science.
DIF:Comprehension
5. A community health nurse has been visiting a postpartum client who experienced domestic
violence throughout the pregnancy, and now she and the infant may be at risk. The nurse
assisted the client in finding shelter and legal protection. Which conceptual framework is the
basis for the nurse‘s safety interventions?
a. Change agent, according to Roy‘s adaptation model
b. Translator, according to Leininger‘s theory of cultural care diversity and
universality
c. Case manager, according to Peplau‘s interpersonal relations model
d. Caregiver, according to Rogers‘ science of unitary human beings
ANS: A
In Roy‘s adaptation model, when the client incurs an insult that renders him or her in need of
environmental modification, the nurse will be the change agent in assisting the individual
with this adaptation. None of the other options deal with the basic client need for an
environmental change to assure safety.
DIF:Application
6. What term is used to identify the general explanations that scholars use to explain, predict,
control, and understand commonly occurring events? a. Theories
b. Constructs
c. Systems
d. Propositions
ANS: A
Theories are a group of related concepts that explain existing phenomena and predict events.
Theories provide us with a frame of reference, the ability to choose concepts to study, or
ideas that are within one‘s practice.
Cherry: Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, and Management, 9th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which nursing theory might a nurse use as a conceptual framework to determine how to meet
the needs of immigrants while ensuring provision of high-quality and culturally sensitive
care?
a. Martha Rogers‘ nursing theory
b. Dorothea Orem‘s nursing theory
c. Hildegard Peplau‘s nursing theory
d. Madeleine Leininger‘s nursing theory
ANS: D
Madeleine Leininger proposed the theory of cultural care diversity and universality. This
theory of transcultural nursing comprises concepts involving caring and the components of a
cultural care theory: diversity, universality, worldview, and ethnohistory. None of the other
options are directly associated with cultural diversity and sensitivity.
DIF:Comprehension
2. What term is used to identify the process used to determine the relationships among related
concepts and a common theme? a. Hypothesis
b. Model
c. Construct
d. Variable
ANS: B
A model is a group of concepts that are associated because of their relevance to a common
theme. None of the other terms relate to this process.
DIF:Application
3. The statement, ―Nursing is a caring profession that focuses on helping people be as healthy
as possible,‖ is an example of what term? a. Concept
b. Construct
c. Philosophy
d. Model
ANS: C
A philosophy is the values and beliefs of the discipline. The statement presents a value and
belief associated with nursing.
, DIF:Comprehension
4. Which nursing theory served as the foundation for nursing science?
a. Rogers‘ science of unitary human beings
b. Nightingale‘s theory of practice
c. Watson‘s theory of human caring
d. King‘s theory of goal attainment
ANS: B
Florence Nightingale investigated the effect of the environment on healing, and this serves as
the foundation for nursing science.
DIF:Comprehension
5. A community health nurse has been visiting a postpartum client who experienced domestic
violence throughout the pregnancy, and now she and the infant may be at risk. The nurse
assisted the client in finding shelter and legal protection. Which conceptual framework is the
basis for the nurse‘s safety interventions?
a. Change agent, according to Roy‘s adaptation model
b. Translator, according to Leininger‘s theory of cultural care diversity and
universality
c. Case manager, according to Peplau‘s interpersonal relations model
d. Caregiver, according to Rogers‘ science of unitary human beings
ANS: A
In Roy‘s adaptation model, when the client incurs an insult that renders him or her in need of
environmental modification, the nurse will be the change agent in assisting the individual
with this adaptation. None of the other options deal with the basic client need for an
environmental change to assure safety.
DIF:Application
6. What term is used to identify the general explanations that scholars use to explain, predict,
control, and understand commonly occurring events? a. Theories
b. Constructs
c. Systems
d. Propositions
ANS: A
Theories are a group of related concepts that explain existing phenomena and predict events.
Theories provide us with a frame of reference, the ability to choose concepts to study, or
ideas that are within one‘s practice.
