SOUTH CITY INSTITUTE OF NURSING
Introduction of Nursing Theories
GBSN YEAR IV 7th Semester 2022
A Set of related statements that describes or explains phenomena in a systematic way is called?
a. Theory
b. Concept
c. Constructed
d. Phenomena
A Statement of relationship between concepts?
a. Conceptual model
b. Variable
c. Proposition
d. Mid-range theory
What you understand. Term concept?
a. Mental image/ ideas
b. Assumption
c. Paradigm
d. Multi-paradigm
The term conceptual framework means?
a. A group of related concepts
b. Collection of ideas
c. Hypothesis
d. Philosophy
A pattern of shared understandings and assumptions about reality and the world, includes our
Notions of reality that are largely unconscious or taken for granted.
a. Met paradigm
b. Paradigm
c. Theory
d. Nursing
An approach for thinking about the nature of people, the methods that should be used to create
scientific knowledge, and the ethics involved. ?
a. Philosophy
b. Health
c. Mission
d. Vision
It explores a phenomenon and explicates theories purpose.?
a. Predictive
b. Explanatory
c. Descriptive
d. Describes
They theory are not as easily interpreted or measured is called?
a. Operation theory
b. Constructed theory
c. Mid-range theory
d. Abstract theory
Takes information gathered from specific events and derives a general statement or theory to
Describe the underlying principle.. ?
a. deductive approach
b. inductive approach
c. hypothesis
d. Practice Theory
Statements that explain the relationship between the concepts in a theory::
a. Propositions
b. Assumptions
c. Predictions
d. Process
Theories that are broad and complex are:
a. Grand theories
b. Descriptive theories
c. Middle-range theories
d. Prescriptive theories
The type of theory that tests the validity and predictability of nursing interventions is:
a. A grand theory
b. A descriptive theory
c. A prescriptive theory
d. A middle-range theory
Simple or complex, relate to an object or event that comes from individual perceptual
experiences.
a. health
b. content
c. concept
d. assumption
Product and information obtained from the system.
a. proposition
b. paradigm
c. content
d. concept
More limited in scope and are less abstract, address phenomenon and reflect practice
a. A grand theory
b. A descriptive theory
c. A prescriptive theory
d. A middle-range theory
When combine the research the theory than result of the relationship between research & Theory
is?
a. methodology
b. science
c. theory
d. experiment
The type of theory that tests the validity and predictability of nursing interventions is:
a. A grand theory
b. A descriptive theory
c. A prescriptive theory
d. A middle-range theory
The nursing paradigm identifies four linkages of interest to the nursing profession. These four
linkages are:
a. Concepts, definitions, relationships, and assumptions
b. The person, health, environment/situation, and nursing
c. The individual, groups, situations, and interests specific to nursing
d. Description, explanation, prediction, and prescription of an interrelationship
of nursing
Which of the following stages of the nursing process is similar to that of the research process in
determining the focus of the research and the research aim?
a. Assessment
b. planning
c. Implementation
d. Evaluation
The client reports nausea and constipation. Which of the following would be the priority nursing
action?
a. Collect a stool sample
b. Complete an abnormal assessment
c. Administer an anti-nausea medication
d. Notify the physician
Nursing theory articulates the relationships among person, environment, health, and Nursing.
What term would a nurse use when referring to these four concepts collectively?
a. Grand theories
b. Metaparadigm
c. Conceptual model
d. Paradigm
Symbolic and schematic representation –set of interrelated concepts, mental image and
phenomenon is called?
a. Nursing
b. Models
c. Theory
d. Science
Theory concerned with the investigation, analysis, or description of theory itself?
a. Metaparadigm
b. Metatheory
c. Paradigm
d. Conceptual model
A theoretical work varies by how abstract or concrete it is called?
a. Clarity
b. Simplicity
c. Generality
d. Accessibility
When technically or "a gradual process in which something changes into theory a different and
usually more complex or better form." Is called
a. Theory
b. Evolution
c. Practice
d. Concept
All the following the Theory and its associated research design EXCEPT ONE
a. Predictive
b. co- relation
c. experimental
d. descriptive
The actual observation, operation, or experiment?
a. practice
b. theory
c. research
d. science
An organized framework of concepts and purposes designed to guide the practice of nursing is
called?
a. Nursing model
b. Nursing practice
c. Nursing curriculum
d. Nursing theory
Who changed the image of nursing?
a. Adolf Meyer
b. Betty Neuman
c. Carl Jung
d. Florence Nightingale
Who is supported her theoretical propositions through research, as statistical data and Prepared
graphs were used to depict the impact of nursing care
a. Dorothea Dix
b. Lillian wald
c. clara barton
d. Florence nightingale
What was Florence Nightingale's nickname?
a. Lady And The Tramp
b. Lady With The Lamp
c. Lady In Red
d. Lady With Grace
How many studies was reported between 1928-1959 a theoretical basis for the research design?
a. 100
b. 120
c. 152
d. 164
What you understand The term research?
a. Product of knowledge
b. Process of inquiry
c. Connection b/w research and theory
d. finding of new area
The first modern nursing theorist?
a. Dorothea Dix
b. Lillian Wald
c. Clara Barton
d. Florence Nightingale
In what year and which nurse believed which model to be: disease free?
a. 1959 Dorothea Orem person
b. 1963 Sister Callista Roy person
c. 1954 Virginia Henderson health
d. 1859 Florence Nightingale health
What was theme the 1859 ?
a. Florence Nightingale fourteen principles
b. Florence Nightingale helping people become stronger
c. Florence Nightingale, Environment affects health
d. Florence Nightingale the war and the effects on a person
What was Florence Nightingale's view on the person?
a. Has attributes of spiritual, intellectual and psychological
b. Is a person with emotions, physical and spiritual attributes
c. Has physical, intellectual and spiritual attributes
d. Attributes their kindness towards the nurse
Florence Nightingale believed the environment to be ?
a. Either a negative or positive influence on the person
b. Those aspects outside the person that affect health
c. An external force which affects the person's health
d. Attributes their kindness towards the nurse
Who acted to decrease mortality by improving sanitation in the battlefields, which resulted in a
decline in illness and infection?
a. Dorothea Dix
b. Lillian Wald
c. Clara Barton
d. Florence Nightingale
Nightingale considered disease to be a?
a. Reparative process
b. Symptom of moral decline
c. Problem to be solved
d. Unnatural state of the body
Nightingale's philosophy may be credited for formulating early ideas about which of the
following concepts
a. Selflessness
b. Wholism
c. Dualism
d. Cultural competence
Which of the following is the best summary of Nightingale's opinion of nurses in relation to
physicians?
a. Nurses should be mindful of their subservient relationship to physicians.
b. Nurses should work independently without the involvement of physicians.
c. In some instances, nurses know more about client care and treatment than
physicians.
d. Nurses have the responsibility to provide physicians with accurate information
Which theory or model did Florence nightingale develop?
a. Adapaiton theory
b. Self care deficit theory
c. Interpersonal relationship theory
d. Environment theory
What central theory was the basis for Florence Nightingale’s definition of nursing, and is
Integrated in all aspects of nursing as we know it today ?
a. Unitary Human Beings
b. Interpersonal Relations Model
c. Cultural Care Diversity
d. Environmental Theory
Florence Nightingale was born in
a. Germany
b. Britain
c. France
d. Italy
Virginia Henderson is still fondly referred to as the…
a. Lady with the Lamp
b. First Lady of Nursing
c. Nursing Pioneer
d. Girl Next Door
Henderson personally credited what former experience as influencing her views of nursing?
a. Her time as an undergraduate nursing student
b. Her childhood observations of Native American reservations
c. Her work with the Henry Street Settlement
d. Her trip to Rome in 1991
Help client perform activities client would do if able that contribute to health
a. peplau
b. nightingale
c. Henderson
d. Orem
What did Virginia Henderson's function of nursing help to emerge?
a. major stepping stone in the emergence of nursing as a discipline separate from
medicine
b. when working with individuals who have psychological problems
c. Both describe nursing in relation to the client and the client’s environment.
d. working with individuals who have psychological problems
What do Virginia Henderson and Florence Nightingale have in common?
a. the both describe nursing in relation to the client and the clients environment.
b. the concept of human energy fields
c. working with individuals who have psychological problems
d. Needs theory
When year was Virginia Henderson's definition of unique function of nursing?
a. 1966
b. 1967
c. 1977
d. 1988
Virginia Henderson define basic need is _
a. 14 basic needs addressed by nursing care
b. 44 basic needs addressed by nursing care
c. 54 basic needs addressed by nursing care
d. 64 basic needs addressed by nursing car
Based on the overview of Henderson's philosophy presented in the chapter, it would be most
accurate to consider her theory as a.
a. Needs theory
b. Outcome theory
c. Practice theory
d. Middle-range theory
She introduces the NATURE OF NURSING MODE?
a. Henderson
b. Nightingale
c. Parse
d. Orlando
According to the chapter, why is Orem's Self-Care Model widely used?
a. Because it brings nursing to a new level
b. Because it may be easily applied to daily nursing activities
c. Because it helps the nurse act autonomously
d. Behavioral Systems Theory
What is the name of Dorothea Orem's theory?
a. Patient-Centered Approaches to Nursing
b. Behavioral Systems Theory
c. Self Care Deficit Theory
d. Principles and Practice of Nursing Theory
The step of production and management of nursing systems within Orem's nursing process
Corresponds to which steps of the more widely used nursing process?
a. Diagnosing and planning
b. Collecting data
c. Assessing
d. Implementing
The central focus of a Mandela representing Orem's Self-Care Model would be
a. The nurse-patient relationship
b. Self-care
c. Nursing systems
d. Self-care, self-care deficit, and nursing systems
Javed is working full time during the day while attending nursing school at night. Which of the
following terms from Orem's theory best applies to Javed situation?
a. Self-care agency
b. Self-care deficit
c. Therapeutic self-care demand
d. Partially compensatory system
Orem’s basic conditioning factors are primarily EXCEPT?
a. Familial
b. Personal
c. Social
d. Emotional
The considered by many to be the “mother of modern nursing is ?
a. Virginia Henderson
b. Florence Nightingale
c. Martha Rogers
d. Dorothea Orem's
Self-care deficit theory was proposed by:
a. Virginia Henderson
b. Betty Neuman
c. Imogene King
d. Dorothea Orem
What was the critical question that was the starting point for Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory?
a. What is the subject matter of nursing?
b. What is the condition that indicates that a person needs nursing care?
c. Why do nurses do what they do?
d. What are the form, the structure, and the content elements of nursing assistance
Orem's Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory could be classified as what type of theory?
a. Grand Theory
b. Middle Range Theory
c. Practice Theory
d. General Theory
Which is Orem's view of Nursing, under the Nursing Metaparadigm?
a. Nursing is an art and human services required for maintenance and
continuous self-care
b. Nursing is an art of caring and human health experience focused on caring
c. Nursing is an art of caring with several caring attributes
d. Why do nurses do what they do?
According to Watson, which of the following is a basic human need EXCEPT ?
a. To receive care
b. To connect with another human being
c. To give care
d. To need of care
Caring consists of carative factors that result in the satisfaction of certain human needs". This
explanation was stated by
a. Sister Calista Roy,
b. Jean Watson
c. Dorothea Orem
d. Florence Nightingale
All of the following are caring-healing modalities Except
a. Dieting
b. Music
c. Reflexology
d. Aromatherapy
Watson’s Four (4) Aspects of Caring include
a. Moral ideal, intentionality, ontological competencies, healing art and healing space in
transpersonal caring
b. Moral ideal, intentionality, healing, caring
c. Person, environment, health, nursing
d. Transpersonal caring, mind, body, spirit
According to Watson's theory, which of the following is included in every nurse-client
exchange?
a. The dominant energy of the client
b. The end goal of accomplishing the treatment plan
c. The shared energy of everyone present
d. The client's expectation that healing will occur
What is the best way to describe Watson's "carative factors"?
a. They encompass subjective inner healing processes.
b. They are directly based on Nightingale's environmental theory.
c. They require the nurse to rethink previous ideas of nursing's definition.
d. They take "curative factors" to the next level
Which of the following a main element of the theory of human caring EXCEPT
a. The transpersonal caring relationship
b. The caring occasion/moment
c. The Ten Caritas Processes
d. Healing of physcial ailments only
Which is the essence of nursing?
a. health
b. illness
c. caring
d. creation
Which educator gave the idea of Behaviorism in education system?
a. John locke
b. Thorndike
c. Herbert spencer
d. Waston
In which phase of the nurse-patient relationship is active listening the most important according
to Peplau's theory?
a. During the termination phase
b. During the working phase
c. During the orientation phase
d. During the planning phase
What is the first step for the nurse when applying Peplau's Interpersonal Relations in Nursing?
a. Being conscious of the patient's behaviors
b. Being in tune with the interpersonal environment
c. Being aware of personal behaviors
d. Being sensitive to the quality of the nurse-patient relationship
Which of the following would be considered of central importance to Peplau's Theory EXCEPT
a. The patient
b. The nurse-patient relationship
c. The nurse
d. Nurse doctor and patient relationship
Which of the following roles was not identified in the chapter as a primary role played by the
nurse at some point within the nurse-patient relationship?
a. Stranger
b. Friend
c. Mediator
d. Leader
How does Peplau's Interpersonal Relations Theory benefit the nurse?
a. When effective, it helps the nurse become a better clinician
b. It assists the nurse in managing "difficult" patients more successfully.
c. It helps the nurse identify personal self-care deficits
d. It increases the nurse ability to perform self assessment
Nursing is therapeutic interpersonal process". This definition was stated by:
a. Hildegard Peplau
b. Jean watson
c. Jean Watson
d. Jean Watson
Which nursing theory defines person as “a developing organism that tries to reduce anxiety
caused by needs
a. Peplau's Interpersonal Theory
b. Ernestine Wiedenbach
c. Comfort Theory
d. Tidal Model of Mental Health
According to Peplau's interpersonal model, during which phase of nursing process, the patient
participates in goal setting and has a feeling of belonging and selectively responds to those who
can meet his or her needs?
a. Orientation
b. Identification
c. Counseling
d. Resolution
Dr Peplau’s model involved how many primary nursing roles?
a. Two
b. four
c. seven
d. eight
In Hildegard peplau interpersonal relation model, the focus is on which of the following
a. individual
b. community
c. large society
d. family
What year and what nurse based their theory on stressors affect how a person adapts?
a. 1859 Florence Nightingale
b. 1955 Virginia Henderson
c. 1958 Dorothea Orem
d. 1964 Sister Calista Roy
Riya is a nurse who is caring for shakeela who is recovering from a recent hysterectomy. Which
of the following is an example of a way in which Pat may support her client's interdependence
adaptation according to Roy's model?
a. By offering to find some new magazines for Mary
b. By ensuring that Mary is properly hydrated
c. By giving Mary the number of a local support group
d. By listening to shakeela story about her granddaughter
Which of the following is an example of one of Roy's four modes of adaptation EXCEPT?
a. Self-concept
b. Role function
c. Physiologic-physical
d. Integration
According to Roy's Adaptation Model, a stimulus is?
a. Always negative
b. Detrimental if it provokes a reaction in a client system
c. Can be positive if it supports system integrity
d. A product of the external environment
Inputs, outputs, controls, and feedback are all features of according to Roy's Adaptation
Model?
a. An environment
b. The nurse-client relationship
c. Adaptation
d. A system
Which of the following would not be considered a component of Roy's model?
a. Health promotion
b. Wholism
c. Health as a continuum
d. Spirituality
The health model that focuses on the efforts of persons to respond to environmental challenges is
called the?
a. Clinical model
b. Primitive model
c. Adaptation model
d. Role-performance model
The nurse theorist associated with the concept of adaptation is?
a. Sister Callista Roy
b. Jean Watson
c. Martha Roger
d. Imogene M. King
Sister Callista Roy's nursing theory was based on what?
a. Adaptation Theory - internal & external conditions (Heat stroke pt)
b. Open Systems Theory - individuals, groups, society
c. Self-Care Theory - need care when self-care deficit occurs
d. Energy Fields, Openness, & Patterns Theory
Global concept health sister callistra ray theory cognator coping mechanism “responds EXCEPT
a. Learning
b. Judgment
c. Emotion
d. Love
Which of the following would be an example of a flexible line of defense according to Neuman's
model?
a. the fight or flight response
b. Daily meditation practice
c. The decision to quit smoking
d. Skipping meals to lose weight more quickly
Which of the following would be identified as a stressor according to Neuman's model
EXCEPT
a. Pollution
b. A phone call from a friend
c. Traffic
d. Patient
How does Neuman's model describe the nurse-client relationship?
a. As a partnership
b. As a teacher-student relationship
c. As a modeling experience
d. As exclusively client-centered
Concept related to Betty Neuman’s System Model of Nursing is:
a. Pattern
b. Rhythmicity
c. Dependency
d. Open system
Which nursing theorist defines environment as "the totality of the internal and external forces
which surround a person and with which they interact at any given time"?
a. Dorothy Johnson
b. Martha Rogers
c. Dorothea Orem
d. Betty Neuman
Nursing is defined as “action which assist individuals, families and groups to maintain a
maximum level of wellness, and the primary aim is stability of the patient/client system, through
nursing interventions to reduce stressors.’’ This
definition is given by:
a. Orem
b. Peplau
c. Neuman
d. Rogers
Health/wellness is “the condition in which all parts and subparts (variables) are in harmony with
the whole of the client. This definition was given by:
a. Maslow
b. Neuman
c. Peplau
d. Newman
According to their theories a person mind and emotion are window to the soul?
a. Betty neuman
b. Martha Rogers
c. Callista Roy
d. Jean Watson
The theorist describe a person as a open system seeking balance are harmony a composite of the
physiologic , psychological , social-culture and development values of whole is?
a. Betty neuman
b. Martha Rogers
c. Callista roy
d. Jean Watson
Assisting a client in the performance of ROM exercises following a rotator cuff
injury would be an example of prevention, according to Neuman's Model?
a. Primary
b. Secondary
c. Tertiary
d. Disability
Which is a concept related to Faye Abdellah's theory EXCEPT?
a. Susternal Care Needs
b. The twenty-one Nursing Problems
c. Restorative Care Needs
d. Therapeutic Self-care Demands
Imogen king theory is a type of
a. Need theories
b. Interaction theories
c. Outcomes theories
d. Humanistic theories
Transcultural Model of Nursing was proposed by:
a. Joyce Travelbee
b. Rosemarie Rizzo Parse
c. Madeleine Leininger
d. Ida Jean Orlando
Which of the following theorists stressed energy field in their nursing theory
a. Dorothea orem
b. Helen numan
c. Rosemaire prse
d. Martha E Rogers
