A nurse enters a client's room and introduces herself as the nurse who will be taking care of him today. The client discusses with the nurse the fact that he has been sick to his stomach for the last several hours.
After discussing the client's nausea, the nurse and the client decide that medication might be helpful to alleviate the client symptoms. Which interpersonal process theory focuses on the interpersonal relationship between the client and the nurse and incorporates the orientation, identification, exploitation, and resolution phases?
A) Parse's Human Becoming Theory
B) Paterson and Zderad's Humanistic Theory
C) Peplau's Interpersonal Relations Model
D) Newman's Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Question 2During postconference, the clinical instructor reviews theories that utilize the nursing process and how they differ in their approach to the nursing process.
Which of the following theories delineates assessment by including perception, communication, and interaction of the nurse and the client in the definition of the assessment phase?
A) King's Theory of Goal Attainment
B) Paterson and Zderad's Humanistic Theory
C) Newman's Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
D) Parse's Human Becoming Theory
Question 3A nursing preceptor is reviewing the nursing process during the first day together with his preceptee. The steps of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation are reviewed,
and the preceptor stresses that the process has the advantage of keeping nurses organized and provides structure for problem solving. While strengths were listed, what is one of the weaknesses of the nursing process that has been discussed in the literature?
A) The nursing process is time efficient.
B) The nursing process is inconsistent with real-world practice.
C) The nursing process focuses on a client's strengths, not problems.
D) The nursing process is controversial for beginning nursing practice.
Question 4A nurse on a busy cardiac unit experiences her first code, and the client is sent to the coronary care intensive-care unit for further care. The nurse feels that her participation in the code could have been performed in a more efficient manner.
What type of thinking was utilized in this scenario?
A) Critical thinking
B) Negative thinking
C) Intuition
D) Reflection
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