ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
calista roy - CORRECT ANSWER - -adaptation model: people are an adaptive system in
interaction with their environment
-goal of nursing is to foster successful adaptation
-adaptation leads to optimal health, well being, quality of life, death with dignity
jean watson - CORRECT ANSWER - -theory of human caring
-goal of nursing is to help people attain high er level of harmony within the mind, body, and spirit
(achieving this can lead to healing and health)
-10 caritas (kindness, equanimity, presence, spiritual, self awareness, trust, caring relationship, supportive,
creatively using self, teaching learning experience, healing environments, basic needs, life, death,
suffering, allowing for miracles)
florence nightingale (theory) - CORRECT ANSWER - -environmental theory
-focus on the patient and environment
-nurse manipulates the environment to enhance the patient's recovery
-13 canons (ventilation, warmth, health of houses, management, noise, variety, food, bed, light,
cleanliness, hopes, advice, observation)
patricia benner (5 stages) - CORRECT ANSWER - -novice to expert theory
-novice: no experience, being taught
-beginner:can note recurring meaningful situational components, can't prioritize, marginally acceptable
performance
-competent: long term goals/plans awareness, on the job 2-3 years
-proficient: sees situations as wholes, competent performer, has experience, knows how to modify plans
in response
-expert: intuitive grasps, doesn't rely on analytical principle, a lot of experience, intellect
, peplau - CORRECT ANSWER - -theory of interpersonal relations
-how people relate to one another
-nurse patient relationship is the center of nursing
-patient needs the nurse for their expert services
dorthea orem - CORRECT ANSWER - -theory of self care
-why and how people care for themselves
-nursing is needed when people can't perform self care acts
-3 self care requites: universal self care (food, water, shelter, air), developmental self care (marriage,
college, retirement), health deviation self care requisites (medical assistance, awareness of health,
carrying out treatments)
virginia henderson - CORRECT ANSWER - -role of the nurse is to assist the patient to perform
activities that contribute to their health, recovery, or peaceful death
-patient gains independence, doesn't remain dependent on the nurse
-empathetic understanding
-combination of head, heart, hands
-14 basic needs
kolcaba - CORRECT ANSWER - -theory of comfort
-needs of relief, ease, transcendence are addressed
- 3 components of comfort: appropriate and timely intervention, mode of delivery that projects caring and
empathy, intent to comfort
idealist - CORRECT ANSWER - -world is evolving
-there is more than meets the eye
-the social world is created
-reality is a concept perceived in the mind