UNDERSTANDING MEDICAL SURGICAL
NURSING TEST BANK FULL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEED TO PASS
●● Virginia Henderson
Answer: Need Theory
●● medical paradigm
Answer: views a person through a lens that focuses on identifying and
treating diseases
- person's parts
●● Nursing Paradigm
Answer: Links person, health, environment/situation, and nursing
●● conceptual framework
Answer: a set of concepts related to form a whole
●● paradigm
Answer: the worldview or ideology of a discipline
, ●● Benner's Stages of Nursing Expertise
Answer: Stage 1: Novice
Stage 2: Advanced Beginner
Stage 3: Competent
Stage 4: Proficient
Stage 5: Expert
●● Novice
Answer: a beginner; one who is inexperienced
●● Advanced beginner
Answer: A nurse who has had some level of experience with the
situation. This experience may only be observational in nature, but the
nurse is able to identify meaningful aspects or principles of nursing care.
●● Competent
Answer: does not grasp full scope and important aspects
●● Proficient
Answer: immediately give meaning to cluster of data; able to see the
"big picture"
●● Expert