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How to care for acutely ill patients.
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B.
The factors that influence individuals to pursue health-promoting behaviors.
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The process of adaptation to chronic illness.
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D.
The stages of the nurse-patient relationship.
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The nurse's role in fixing the patient's problems.
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B.
The patient's subjective experience and quality of life as they define it.
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C.
The patient as a system of inputs and outputs.
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D.
The biological needs of the patient.
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It is highly abstract and complex.
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B.
It provides a broad overview of the nursing profession.
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C.
It is specific and provides direct guidance for a particular type of patient or situation.
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D.
It is borrowed from another discipline like sociology.
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Theory provides the underlying 'why' for the 'what' and 'how' of nursing actions.
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B.
Theories are only meant for nurse educators and researchers.
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C.
All nurses must develop their own personal theory.
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D.
Nursing practice is purely a technical skill.
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A.
Remain relevant and adapt to the changing health needs of society.
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B.
Replace all old theories with new ones.
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C.
Prove its superiority over medicine.
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D.
Create more complex models that are harder to understand.
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A.
Theory guiding nursing administration and practice.
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B.
A research study being conducted.
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C.
The development of a new practice-level theory.
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D.
An evaluation of the nursing metaparadigm.
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A.
It proves that nursing is better than other health professions.
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B.
It demonstrates that the profession has a unique body of knowledge that guides its services.
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C.
It ensures that all practitioners behave in the same way.
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D.
It is a requirement for international travel and work.
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Bridging the gap between theory and practice through research.
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B.
Developing a new grand theory.
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C.
Critiquing the metaparadigm of nursing.
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D.
Applying a borrowed theory from medicine.
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A.
Research question to test the relationship between teaching and anxiety.
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B.
New grand theory of nursing.
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C.
Change in hospital policy without further evidence.
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D.
Criticism of all existing nursing theories.
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A.
Linear, where research creates theory, which is then used in practice.
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B.
Cyclical, where practice poses questions for research, and research findings help build and test theory, which then guides practice.
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C.
Unrelated, as the three are independent domains.
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D.
Hierarchical, with theory being the most important, followed by research, and then practice.
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