Concepts of Nursing and Nursing Theories
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
ASSUMPTIONS - CORRECT ANSWER -Statements that describe concepts or connect
two concepts that are factual.
PHENOMENON - CORRECT ANSWER -Aspect of reality that can be consciously
sensed or experienced.
PERSON - CORRECT ANSWER -The recipient of nursing care.
HEALTH - CORRECT ANSWER -The goal of nursing care.
ENVIRONMENT - CORRECT ANSWER -All possible conditions affecting the client and
the setting in which health care needs occur.
NURSING - CORRECT ANSWER -Diagnosis and treatment of human responses to
actual or potential health problems (ANA,1995).
THEORY - CORRECT ANSWER -A system of ideas that is proposed to explain a given
phenomenon; well-articulated idea about something important; describe, predict and control
phenomena.
LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION - CORRECT ANSWER -Grand theories or middle-range
theories.
NURSING THEORY - CORRECT ANSWER -A conceptualization of some aspect of
nursing communicated for the purpose of describing, explaining, predicting, and/or prescribing
CARE (Meleis, 1997).
, GOALS OF THE THEORY - CORRECT ANSWER -Descriptive or prescriptive.
NURSING EDUCATION - CORRECT ANSWER -Used primarily to establish the
profession's place in the university.
NURSING RESEARCH - CORRECT ANSWER -Identifies gaps in the way we approach
specific fields of study.
CLINICAL PRACTICE - CORRECT ANSWER -The reflection, questioning, and
thinking about what nurses do.
PRINCIPLE - CORRECT ANSWER -A fundamental truth or proposition that serves as
the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.
MIDDLE RANGE THEORIES - CORRECT ANSWER -More limited scope, less
abstraction, address specific phenomena or concept and reflect practice (administration, clinical
or teaching).
PHILOSOPHY - CORRECT ANSWER -A belief system and serves as basis for
theoretical formulations.
CLEAR - CORRECT ANSWER -Consistency, semantic, and structural clarity.
SIMPLE - CORRECT ANSWER -Sufficiently comprehensive and at a level of abstraction
provides guidance.
DESCRIPTIVE THEORIES - CORRECT ANSWER -The first level of theory
development.
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
ASSUMPTIONS - CORRECT ANSWER -Statements that describe concepts or connect
two concepts that are factual.
PHENOMENON - CORRECT ANSWER -Aspect of reality that can be consciously
sensed or experienced.
PERSON - CORRECT ANSWER -The recipient of nursing care.
HEALTH - CORRECT ANSWER -The goal of nursing care.
ENVIRONMENT - CORRECT ANSWER -All possible conditions affecting the client and
the setting in which health care needs occur.
NURSING - CORRECT ANSWER -Diagnosis and treatment of human responses to
actual or potential health problems (ANA,1995).
THEORY - CORRECT ANSWER -A system of ideas that is proposed to explain a given
phenomenon; well-articulated idea about something important; describe, predict and control
phenomena.
LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION - CORRECT ANSWER -Grand theories or middle-range
theories.
NURSING THEORY - CORRECT ANSWER -A conceptualization of some aspect of
nursing communicated for the purpose of describing, explaining, predicting, and/or prescribing
CARE (Meleis, 1997).
, GOALS OF THE THEORY - CORRECT ANSWER -Descriptive or prescriptive.
NURSING EDUCATION - CORRECT ANSWER -Used primarily to establish the
profession's place in the university.
NURSING RESEARCH - CORRECT ANSWER -Identifies gaps in the way we approach
specific fields of study.
CLINICAL PRACTICE - CORRECT ANSWER -The reflection, questioning, and
thinking about what nurses do.
PRINCIPLE - CORRECT ANSWER -A fundamental truth or proposition that serves as
the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.
MIDDLE RANGE THEORIES - CORRECT ANSWER -More limited scope, less
abstraction, address specific phenomena or concept and reflect practice (administration, clinical
or teaching).
PHILOSOPHY - CORRECT ANSWER -A belief system and serves as basis for
theoretical formulations.
CLEAR - CORRECT ANSWER -Consistency, semantic, and structural clarity.
SIMPLE - CORRECT ANSWER -Sufficiently comprehensive and at a level of abstraction
provides guidance.
DESCRIPTIVE THEORIES - CORRECT ANSWER -The first level of theory
development.
