Nursing Theory
The term for a worldview or ideology
What is a Paradigm?
This is the term for when a nurse forms a mental image of pain based upon his/her own experiences with pain
What is a Concept?
This type of quantitative research determines effectiveness of program, practice, or policy
What is Evaluation?
This is the Hierarchy of Basic Human Needs
What is Maslow’s Theory?
This is “P” in the acronym PICO
What is patient, population, or problem?
This is one of the essential concepts
of a nursing theory
What is Person, Environment, Health, and/or Nursing?
This type of qualitative research establishes facts & relationships about past events
What is Historical?
In this type of quantitative research the investigator controls study variable(s) and randomization
What is Experimental?
This theorist developed the Stress and Adaptation Theory
Who is Hans Selye?
According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, these needs should be met first
What are basic physiological needs?
What are the need for rest, food, air, water, temperature regulation, and elimination?
The nurse incorporates Hispanic beliefs about “hot and cold” into his/her plan of care for the client. This nurse is providing care based on the nursing theory of this nursing theorist
Who is Madeleine Leninger
This type of qualitative research describes and interprets cultural behavior
What is Ethnography?
This type of quantitative research explores interrelationships among variables but there is no intervention by researcher
What is Correlational?
This theorist is well known for his psychosocial developmental theory
Who is Eric Erickson?
This is the term for when racial and ethnic minorities tend to receive a lower quality of healthcare
What is Health disparities?
This is the type of reasoning that a nurse uses when noting that his patient has pedal edema (swelling), crackles (wet lung sounds), and an elevated blood pressure - concluding that the patient has fluid volume excess
What is inductive reasoning? (drawing a general conclusion from a pattern found in individual pieces of information)
This type of qualitative research develops a theory based on real world observations
What are Grounded Theory?
This is the mechanism for overseeing the ethical standards in research and was established by the U.S. DHHS
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
This theorist developed the Systems Theory in the 1940s
Who is Ludwig von Bertallanffy?
This is the right that a mother exercises to withdraw her child from a research study that uses high-dose steroids, despite reassurance that adverse reactions to steroids in children are uncommon
What self-determination?
Her domains of practice include the helping role, teaching-coaching function, diagnostic and monitoring function, administering and monitoring therapeutic interventions and regimens, management of rapidly changing situations, monitoring and ensuring the quality of health care practice, and organizational and work-role competencies
Who is Patricia Benner?
This type of qualitative research explores persons’ experiences in regard to daily practices and how they interpret those experiences
What is Phenomenology?
In this type of quantitative research - the characteristics of persons, situations, and frequency of events or characteristics appear
What is Descriptive?
This is one of several theorists that developed a theory of moral development
Who is Kohlberg or Gilligan?
This commonly accepted screening practice came about as a result of the Framingham study
What is mammography in breast cancer screening?