Test Bank For Role Development in Professional Nursing
Practice 5th Edition By Kathleen Masters
VALUES CLARIFICATION - ANSWER: can occur individually or in groups and helps us
to understand who we are and what is important to us. Its positive and the outcome
is growth. It helps people to discern their individual values and leads to self-
actualization. It helps us to maintain non-judgmental attitude about the values of
others is very vital to nurse-patient relationship.
What is the main purpose of value clarification? - ANSWER: the main purpose of
value clarification is understanding self (what is important and meaningful to us).
Health - ANSWER: is dynamic and every changing, not a stagnant state
Beliefs - ANSWER: is what we value
What are the three categories of beliefs? - ANSWER: Existential - shown to be true or
false
Evaluative - Beliefs that makes judgment
Prescriptive/Proscriptive beliefs what people schould or schould not do.
Existential beliefs - ANSWER: shown to be true or false
Evaluative beliefs - ANSWER: Beliefs that makes judgment
Prescriptive beliefs - ANSWER: what people schould do
Proscriptive beliefs - ANSWER: what people should not do
Paradigm - ANSWER: the lens through which you see the world
Realism - ANSWER: the world is static, seeing is believing, the social world is a given,
reality is physical and independent, logical thinking is superior
Idealism - ANSWER: the world is evolving, there is more that meets the eye, the
social world is created, reality is conception perceived in the mind, thinking is
dynamic and constructive
Values - ANSWER: the principles and ideals that give meaning and direction to our
social, personal, and professional lives.
Nursing values have been identified: - ANSWER: as the fundamentals that guide our
standards, influence practice decisions, and provide the framework used for
evaluation.
, The process of nursing involves three steps - ANSWER: choosing values
prizing values
acting on values
intrinsic value - ANSWER: is required for living (food water)
extrinsic value - ANSWER: not required for living and is originated external to the
person.
value acquisition - ANSWER: when a new value is assumed
value abandoment - ANSWER: when a value is relinquished
value redistribution occurs - ANSWER: when society changes views about a particular
value.
contextualism - ANSWER: understanding is embedded in context; meaning is
subjective and ope to change and dependent on the moment in time and the
persons perspective.
formism - ANSWER: understanding events in relationship to their similarity to and
ideal or objective standard comes categorization (classification of plants and animals
in biology.
mechanism - ANSWER: understanding is in terms of cause-and-effect relationships,
the common approach used by modern medicine
organicism - ANSWER: understanding comes from patterns and relationships; must
understand the whole to understand the parts(cannot look at a child's language
development without looking at his or her overall development history.
What are Dowds and Marcel explanations of an event - ANSWER: contextual ism,
mechanism, organicism, formism
values clarification - ANSWER: can occur in a group or individually and helps us
understand who we are and what is most important to us.
values clarification is done : - ANSWER: for the purpose of understanding self to
discover what is important and meaningful.
What is nursing philosophy? - ANSWER: is a statement of foundational and universal
assumptions, beliefs and principles bout the nature of knowledge and truth
(epistemology)
Ethics - ANSWER: the study of ideal human behavioral and ideal ways of being.
Practice 5th Edition By Kathleen Masters
VALUES CLARIFICATION - ANSWER: can occur individually or in groups and helps us
to understand who we are and what is important to us. Its positive and the outcome
is growth. It helps people to discern their individual values and leads to self-
actualization. It helps us to maintain non-judgmental attitude about the values of
others is very vital to nurse-patient relationship.
What is the main purpose of value clarification? - ANSWER: the main purpose of
value clarification is understanding self (what is important and meaningful to us).
Health - ANSWER: is dynamic and every changing, not a stagnant state
Beliefs - ANSWER: is what we value
What are the three categories of beliefs? - ANSWER: Existential - shown to be true or
false
Evaluative - Beliefs that makes judgment
Prescriptive/Proscriptive beliefs what people schould or schould not do.
Existential beliefs - ANSWER: shown to be true or false
Evaluative beliefs - ANSWER: Beliefs that makes judgment
Prescriptive beliefs - ANSWER: what people schould do
Proscriptive beliefs - ANSWER: what people should not do
Paradigm - ANSWER: the lens through which you see the world
Realism - ANSWER: the world is static, seeing is believing, the social world is a given,
reality is physical and independent, logical thinking is superior
Idealism - ANSWER: the world is evolving, there is more that meets the eye, the
social world is created, reality is conception perceived in the mind, thinking is
dynamic and constructive
Values - ANSWER: the principles and ideals that give meaning and direction to our
social, personal, and professional lives.
Nursing values have been identified: - ANSWER: as the fundamentals that guide our
standards, influence practice decisions, and provide the framework used for
evaluation.
, The process of nursing involves three steps - ANSWER: choosing values
prizing values
acting on values
intrinsic value - ANSWER: is required for living (food water)
extrinsic value - ANSWER: not required for living and is originated external to the
person.
value acquisition - ANSWER: when a new value is assumed
value abandoment - ANSWER: when a value is relinquished
value redistribution occurs - ANSWER: when society changes views about a particular
value.
contextualism - ANSWER: understanding is embedded in context; meaning is
subjective and ope to change and dependent on the moment in time and the
persons perspective.
formism - ANSWER: understanding events in relationship to their similarity to and
ideal or objective standard comes categorization (classification of plants and animals
in biology.
mechanism - ANSWER: understanding is in terms of cause-and-effect relationships,
the common approach used by modern medicine
organicism - ANSWER: understanding comes from patterns and relationships; must
understand the whole to understand the parts(cannot look at a child's language
development without looking at his or her overall development history.
What are Dowds and Marcel explanations of an event - ANSWER: contextual ism,
mechanism, organicism, formism
values clarification - ANSWER: can occur in a group or individually and helps us
understand who we are and what is most important to us.
values clarification is done : - ANSWER: for the purpose of understanding self to
discover what is important and meaningful.
What is nursing philosophy? - ANSWER: is a statement of foundational and universal
assumptions, beliefs and principles bout the nature of knowledge and truth
(epistemology)
Ethics - ANSWER: the study of ideal human behavioral and ideal ways of being.
