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NURS 1000H Exam Practice Questions
and Answers
Who was the first to define caring? - Ans:✔✔-Nightingale
what is the heart of nursing? - Ans:✔✔-caring
Caring - Ans:✔✔-the work or practice of looking after those unable to care for themselves, especially sick
and elderly people
Orem Self-care theory - Ans:✔✔-people should be self-reliant and responsible for their own care and the
care of others in their family
caring domains - Ans:✔✔-physical
Psychological
Interpersonal
social
Benner: Holistic theory - Ans:✔✔-Equates excellent nursing practice with CARING
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People, events, projects (things) have importance
Caring means connectedness or involvement
Caring helps patients understand and adjust to illness
Defines health as a state of being: Individualized by one's
Values
Personality
Lifestyle
Treatment for illness is worthless if not applied to the individual
Leininger: Transcultural theory - Ans:✔✔-Caring is the essence of Nursing - it is a distinguishing
characteristic
Purpose of care is to assist the individual toward improvement in condition
Caring is
Nurturing
Dependent on needs of individual
Must reflect the patient's own culture
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No cure without caring but there is caring with out curing
Watson: Theory of human caring (caring science) - Ans:✔✔-Holistic
-Patient, family, environment
Nurses exhibit conscious decision to care
This helps patient toward healing and wholeness
Focus in on cAre, not cUre
-cAring "inner healing" health
Nurse & patient affected by relationship
Swanson: caring has 5 dimensions - Ans:✔✔-Caring is has 5 dimensions
Knowing
Being with
Doing for
Enabling
Maintaing belief
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Caring is central to nursing
Theory can be applied to clinical setting
Caring is relational: - Ans:✔✔-Patients value nurse Effectiveness
Ability to perform tasks
Also value nurse Affect
Attitude or demeanor while performing the tasks
Patients are more willing to participate if they sense that they are cared about
Ethics of care - Ans:✔✔-Protects human dignity
Often perceived as a moral imperative
Requires awareness of potential unequality in relationships
This is due to either real or perceived "power" that patient assigns to the nurse
Knowledge is power
expression of care - Ans:✔✔-Spiritual
-Being aware of & honoring patient's beliefs
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FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
NURS 1000H Exam Practice Questions
and Answers
Who was the first to define caring? - Ans:✔✔-Nightingale
what is the heart of nursing? - Ans:✔✔-caring
Caring - Ans:✔✔-the work or practice of looking after those unable to care for themselves, especially sick
and elderly people
Orem Self-care theory - Ans:✔✔-people should be self-reliant and responsible for their own care and the
care of others in their family
caring domains - Ans:✔✔-physical
Psychological
Interpersonal
social
Benner: Holistic theory - Ans:✔✔-Equates excellent nursing practice with CARING
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FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
People, events, projects (things) have importance
Caring means connectedness or involvement
Caring helps patients understand and adjust to illness
Defines health as a state of being: Individualized by one's
Values
Personality
Lifestyle
Treatment for illness is worthless if not applied to the individual
Leininger: Transcultural theory - Ans:✔✔-Caring is the essence of Nursing - it is a distinguishing
characteristic
Purpose of care is to assist the individual toward improvement in condition
Caring is
Nurturing
Dependent on needs of individual
Must reflect the patient's own culture
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No cure without caring but there is caring with out curing
Watson: Theory of human caring (caring science) - Ans:✔✔-Holistic
-Patient, family, environment
Nurses exhibit conscious decision to care
This helps patient toward healing and wholeness
Focus in on cAre, not cUre
-cAring "inner healing" health
Nurse & patient affected by relationship
Swanson: caring has 5 dimensions - Ans:✔✔-Caring is has 5 dimensions
Knowing
Being with
Doing for
Enabling
Maintaing belief
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FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024
Caring is central to nursing
Theory can be applied to clinical setting
Caring is relational: - Ans:✔✔-Patients value nurse Effectiveness
Ability to perform tasks
Also value nurse Affect
Attitude or demeanor while performing the tasks
Patients are more willing to participate if they sense that they are cared about
Ethics of care - Ans:✔✔-Protects human dignity
Often perceived as a moral imperative
Requires awareness of potential unequality in relationships
This is due to either real or perceived "power" that patient assigns to the nurse
Knowledge is power
expression of care - Ans:✔✔-Spiritual
-Being aware of & honoring patient's beliefs
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