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Questions
1. Why is the development of theoretical knowledge important to nursing as a professional discipline? Select all that apply.
A. Creates an organizing structure to understand the complexity of practice
B. Promotes clarity around phenomena of evolving interest to nursing practice
C. Guides the planning of nursing interventions to promote best practice
D. Defines nursing and the role of nurses within the healthcare team
2. When caring for a patient recovering from a post-operative wound infection, which one of the following would Watson identify as essential to the healing process? interacting with the patient
1. Communicating empathy when interacting with the patient
2. Encouraging the patient to mobilize and shower independently
3. Educating the patient to avoid removal of dressings for 72 hours
4. Administering Cefazolin to the patient intravenously
3. What is the focus for the nurse who approaches their practice with a simultaneity or unitary-transformative paradigm lens? Select all that apply.
1. Manipulating the client's environment to promote health and prevent disease
2. Supporting the client's health rhythms in mutual reciprocity with their environment
3. Identifying the client's health patterns and subjective interpretation of quality of life
4. Providing interventions that help the client adapt and care for self
4. A nurse is critically reflecting on the adequacy of a specific theory as they consider how the theory might contribute to their practice. Which of the following evaluative comments reflects the theory's importance?
a. The nursing metaparadigm concepts are evident within the theory
b. A number of concepts in the theory appear to have similar meanings
c. The theory applies to critical care settings exclusively
d. Proposed relationships between concepts are organized but limited
5. Which statement best reflects how nursing theoretical knowledge has evolved over the past century?
1. Understanding the nurse-person relationship as one of connectedness and partnership has gained prominence
2. Theoretical models with a biomedical interpretation of health have become less applicable to nursing practice
3. The acceptance of a theory to guide practice is grounded in how well the theory describes the nurse-health relationship
4. Nursing's theory development work has resulted in newer theories that are more abstract and complex in guiding practice
6. Which behaviour best reflects the application of Nightingale's Environmental Theory in today's nursing practice?
1. Ensuring all patients understand discharge instructions before being released from hospital
2. Advocating for patients to have greater access to their personal health information
3. Educating patients about the importance of appropriate nutrition for wound healing
4. Promoting the implementation of peer-mentorship programs for nurses in the coronary care unit
7. Which of the following reflects the aesthetic pattern of knowing in nursing?
1. Used when drawing upon previous experience in new clinical situations
2. Developed through opening and centering activities
3. Has an important role in a nurse's technical care of patients
4. Practice that reflects a critical awareness of oppressive social structures
8. Which of the following statements reflect Nightingale's theoretical assumptions in contemporary nursing practice? Select all that apply.
1. Accurate charting is essential for quality patient care when using an electronic medical record
2. Nurses advocate for condensing the content in nursing degree programs to better address the nursing shortage
3. Nurses engage with government officials to advocate for clean drinking water on reserves in Ontario
4. The Canadian Nurses Association lobbies to promote equitable care for refugees in Canada
9. Which of the following statements are true about the history or current utility of grand nursing theory for nursing practice? Select all that apply.
A. Grand theories have helped to shape nursing knowledge development and articulate what is important to nursing as a discipline
B. Grand theories are easily applied to practice and thus are in a robust phase of development
C. Grand theories are outdated and not appropriate beyond academic settings
D. Grand theories may be suitable in addressing complex health care issues like climate change and planetary health.