Test Bank for Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice, 5th Edition, Marlaine C. Smith

Test Bank for Nursing
Theories and Nursing
Practice, 5th Edition,
Marlaine C. Smith,
ISBN-13:
9780803679917

, Chapter 1: Nursing Theory and the Discipline of Nursing

Multiple-Choice Questions



1. The purpose of theory is to:

A. Explain experience.

B. Describe relationships.

C. Project outcomes.

D. All of the above.

ANS: D



2. Members of a community of scholars share a commitment to all of the following except:

A. Values.

B. Knowledge.

C. Geographic location.

D. Processes.

ANS: C



3. ____________________ and ____________________ structures are essential to any

discipline and are inherent in nursing theories.

A. Paradigm and metaparadigm.

B. Syntactical and conceptual.

C. Middle and grand.

D. Language and symbol.