Theorists
Which theorist developed and described the First theory of nursing?
-Benner
-Roach
-Tanner
-Nightingale
What is
Nightingale
The nurse who uses clinical decision making to start CPR on a client is concerned about what other nursing concept?
Thermoregulation
Cognition
Perfusion
Acid-base balance
What is
Perfusion
A home healthcare nurse is planning care for an older adult client. Which interdisciplinary program would best support the needs of an older adult client within the community? Select all that apply.
A. Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
B. Meals on Wheels
C. Outpatient clinic
D. YMCA
E. Assertive community treatment (ACT)
What is
Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
Outpatient Clinic
The nurse is caring for an older adult client who visits the clinic semiannually to help maintain quality of life. When providing caring interactions to this client, what intervention should the nurse avoid?
Hint: Use of _______ to an elderly person.
What is
Elderspeak
A nurse educator teaches students about caring
nursing practice. Which situation shows that the
nurse is able to best implement the whole idea of
caring?
1. The nurse is able to carve out time for a favorite
hobby at least once a week.
2. The nurse is a volunteer at church and school
events.
3. The nurse makes lists every morning so the day
stays organized and planned.
4. The nurse takes care of aging parents in
addition to providing care to the immediate
family.
What is
The nurse is able to carve out time for a
favorite hobby at least once a week.
Developed the Transcultural Nursing Model. This theorists advocated that nursing is a humanistic and scientific mode of helping a client through specific cultural caring processes (Cultural values, beliefs, and practices).
What is
Leininger
Which example reflects a nurse manager with
accountability but not authority?
1. To reduce costs, administrators instruct the
manager to inform the staff to reduce overtime.
2. The manager evaluates the unit staff but cannot
promote or terminate staff.
3. The manager is to recommend a new staffing
procedure to the institution's nurse manager
group.
4. The manager prepares a monthly budget
variance report that includes plans to correct
overspending.
What is
The manager evaluates the unit staff but
cannot promote or terminate staff
Nurses who demonstrate mindsight are able to
A. interpret events and emotions from another person's perspective
B. recognize their personal triggers to stress that result in conflict, then retrain their brain to respond differently
C. predict events that will occur in the future with reasonable certainty
D. focus on being "in the moment" so that they can dedicate their full attention to the events and emotions they are currently experiencing
What is
Recognize their personal triggers to stress that result in conflict, then retrain their brain to respond differently
The nurse decides to take a few days of personal time to invest in self-nurturing activities. Which activities indicate the nurse is taking steps to care for self? Select all that apply.
Participating in daily meditation
Being active in church
Sleeping 4 hours each night
Eating one meal a day
Participating in regular exercise
What is
Participating in daily meditation
Being active in church
Participating in regular exercise
A hospital is preparing for the American Nurses' Credentialing Center's magnet hospital designation process. Nurse representatives on the Magnet Council consider several Professional Practice Models (PPMs) as their approach to nursing care. After selecting a PPM model, members of the Council plan a series of nursing grand rounds. These focus on the six Cs of caring in nursing: compassion, competence, confidence, conscience, commitment, and comportment. What particular nursing theory, philosophical approach, or framework of caring have the nurses decided to adopt?
Watson’s Theory of Human Care
Boykin and Schoenhofer’s Nursing as Caring Theory
Roach’s Theory of caring as the Mode of Human Being
Leininger’s Theory of Culture Care Diversity and University
What is
Roach’s Theory of caring as the Mode of Human Being
This theorist conceptualized the Human Caring Model. Emphasized that nursing is the application of the art and human science through transpersonal caring transactions to help persons achieve mind-body soul harmony, and included health promotion and treatment of illness in nursing.
What is
Watson
A client begins to vomit blood. The nurse immediately measures the blood pressure and prepares to insert a nasogastric tube while directing others to notify the healthcare provider and prepare to perform iced saline lavage. Which features of the Tanner Clinical Judgment Model did this nurse demonstrate? Select all that apply.
Responding
Interpreting
Noticing
Presencing
Reflecting
What is
Responding
Interpreting
Noticing
Which of the following individuals would be included on an interdisciplinary healthcare team but not on an interprofessional healthcare team?
Nurse Practitioner
Physical therapist
Laboratory technologist
Pharmacist
What is
Laboratory Technologist
In holistic nursing, the nurse should emphasize the client's personal responsibility in maintaining health. This idea is most closely related to which concept in caring interventions?
Nursing presence
Competence
Compassion
Empowerment
What is
Empowerment
During a midterm evaluation, the nurse educator
tells the students they need to work on improving
their aesthetic knowing. What is a good way for the
students to accomplish this?
1. Study harder.
2. Take better notes.
3. Read about the same topic from a variety of
sources.
4. Spend time in the clinical area with seasoned
nurses.
What is
Spend time in the clinical area with
seasoned nurses.
Believed caring to be the human mode of how humans operate and that caring is within context of nursing.
Extra Credit, name any of the 6 C's of Caring...
What is
Roach
-Compassion
–Competence
–Confidence
–Conscience
–Commitment
–Comportment
An unlicensed assistive person (UAP) has
previously performed client transfers safely (bed to
chair) on many occasions. It would be inappropriate
to delegate this unsupervised task to the UAP under
which condition?
1. The unit had a new wheelchair.
2. This was an older client.
3. It was the client’s first time out of bed after
surgery.
4. The UAP had just returned from an extended
leave of absence.
What is
It was the client's first time out of bed after surgery.
A home health nurse is planning care for an adult client who is being discharged from the hospital after experiencing complications of diabetes mellitus. The client requires an extensive dressing change twice per day, help with activities of daily living, and comprehensive education. To ensure these needs are met, the nurse is coordinating home visits from aides and therapists. Which role is the nurse assuming by coordinating this client's care?
A. Health promoter
B. Case manager
C. Client advocate
D. Health educator
What is
Case Manager
When a client's or family's wishes about a client's care clash with what the nurse believes would be the best possible care for the client, this could cause a conflict between caring interventions and what other nursing concept?
What is
Ethics
The student nurse is following a preceptor on the
assigned clinical shift. Which behavior of the nurse
would the student interpret as caring?
1. Making sure that all medications and treatments
ordered for the client are completed on time
2. Using aseptic technique correctly when performing
all dressing changes ordered for the client
3. Advising the physician that the client wants to
speak to them prior to a procedure being performed
4. Explaining an invasive procedure to the client, then
asking whether it is alright to begin the procedure
What is
Explaining an invasive procedure to the client,
then asking whether it is alright to begin the
procedure
This theorists created the 5 level pyramid otherwise referred to as a "Heirarchy of needs"
Which is at the base & top of this heirarchy of needs?
What is
Maslow
Top- Self Actualization
Base-Physiological Needs
A client with aspiration pneumonia is diaphoretic, pale, and taking gasping breaths. Which is the priority nursing action?
Complete a thorough cardiopulmonary assessment.
Notify the healthcare provider.
Administer 10 L of oxygen per face mask.
Reposition the client to help with breathing.
What is
Complete a thorough cardiopulmonary assessment
__________ occurs when two or more individuals show or feel honor or esteem toward one another, and it is an important element of successful collaborative practice.
What is
Mutual Respect
During a care conference, the nursing student differentiates between the different theories of caring when discussing client care. Which type of knowledge is the student demonstrating?
What is
Empirical knowing
A nurse preceptor is working with a newly licensed
nurse in the newborn nursery. The newly licensed
nurse asked if infants experience pain, and if so,
how it is managed. What is the nurse preceptor’s
best response?
1. “Research shows that infants do not experience pain
so there is no need to provide any interventions to
address this.”
2. “Infants experience pain, but the healthcare providers
do not choose to treat it unless it is severe.”
3. “Infants experience pain, and there are several
nursing interventions that can comfort the infant
during a painful procedure.”
4. “The nursing staff can only intervene if the healthcare
provider writes an order for an intervention.”
What is
“Infants experience pain, and there are several
nursing interventions that can comfort the infant during a painful procedure.”