Practice Questions

The evolution of nursing theories from the 1950s to the present day shows a trend towards:

A. Becoming more focused on the nurse's tasks and less on the patient.
B. Moving from grand, broad ideas to more specific, testable, and practice-oriented theories.
C. Becoming less scientific and more based on intuition.
D. Being developed exclusively by physicians for nurses.
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A nurse who helps a patient find meaning in their chronic illness is practicing in a way that is most aligned with which type of theory?

A. A systems model like Neuman's.
B. A needs-based theory like Henderson's.
C. A humanistic, phenomenological theory like Watson's or Parse's.
D. An environmental theory like Nightingale's.
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A theory’s “social significance” is a criterion used in its evaluation. This refers to:

A. The theory's contribution to contemporary societal health issues.
B. How many people are talking about the theory on social media.
C. Whether the theorist is a well-known public figure.
D. The cost of implementing the theory in a hospital.
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The concept of “reciprocal interaction” is central to whose theory?

A. Dorothea Orem
B. Virginia Henderson
C. Imogene King
D. Florence Nightingale
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A nurse manager on a palliative care unit wants to create a framework that emphasizes the spiritual and existential aspects of care. The most appropriate theory to guide practice would be:

A. Roy's Adaptation Model
B. Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory
C. Watson's Theory of Human Caring
D. Henderson's Need Theory
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Which theory would be most useful for a community health nurse designing a program to reduce the incidence of waterborne diseases in a flood-affected area of Pakistan?

A. Peplau's Interpersonal Theory
B. Nightingale's Environmental Theory
C. Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory
D. Watson's Theory of Human Caring
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A key difference in the worldview of Neuman’s Systems Model and Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings is that:

A. Neuman focuses on preventing stressors from harming the system, while Rogers focuses on the human-environment energy field as a whole.
B. Rogers' model is a systems model, while Neuman's is not.
C. Neuman's model is for individuals, while Rogers' is for communities.
D. Neuman is American, and Rogers is Canadian.
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The act of actively listening to a patient’s story about their illness experience is a core intervention in theories developed by:

A. Henderson and Orem
B. Peplau and Barker
C. Nightingale and Roy
D. King and Neuman
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