Kozier & Erb’s Fundamentals of Nursing, 10/E
Chapter 03
Question 1
Type: MCSA
Nursing students have been assigned to develop their own theory of nursing. What should they include in their
theory, often referred to as the metaparadigm for nursing?
1. Society, medicine, nursing, and biology
2. Patient, facility, health, and nursing
3. Organization, discipline, nursing, and client
4. Client, environment, health, and nursing
Question 2
Type: MCSA
Nursing students are researching how cultural practices affect the dying process of terminal cancer clients. For
their research, which theory will the students most likely explore?
1. Critical theory
2. Midlevel theories
3. Grand theories
4. Stability models
Question 3
Type: MCSA
A nurse is caring for a client with a severe head trauma. Each shift, the nurse pays attention to the lighting,
atmosphere, and surroundings the client is exposed to. The nurse is functioning according to the assumptions of
which nursing theorist?
1. Dorothea Orem
2. Martha Rogers
3. Florence Nightingale
4. Jean Watson
Question 4
Type: MCSA
Nursing staff members from an acute psychiatric unit have been asked to establish a nurse theorist they can easily
identify with in their practice. Understanding the importance of developing a therapeutic relationship between
themselves and their clients, especially in this unit, to which theorist would they most likely be drawn?
1. Florence Nightingale
2. Hildegard Peplau
3. Jean Watson
4. Dorothea Orem
Question 5
Type: MCSA
During a hospital stay, the client has taken control of her recovery and rehabilitation and is utilizing available
resources for her needs. In which level of Peplau’s model should the nurse determine that this patient is
functioning?
1. Orientation
2. Identification
3. Exploitation
4. Resolution
Question 6
Type: MCSA
A Department of Nursing within a medical center is adopting the theory that is founded on 14 fundamental needs
of individuals. Which nurse theorist is this department using to guide client care?
1. Dorothea Orem
2. Florence Nightingale
3. Martha Rogers
4. Virginia Henderson
Question 7
Type: MCSA
A nurse has implemented the use of noncontact therapeutic touch. Which theorist is the nurse using as a basis for
this intervention?
1. Florence Nightingale
2. Martha Rogers
3. Virginia Henderson
4. Rosemarie Parse
Question 8
Type: MCSA
The nurse is teaching health and wellness principles to junior high students. According to Orem’s theory, which
category of self-care requisite is the nurse using to guide this teaching?
1. Universal
2. Developmental
3. Health deviation
4. Deficit
Question 9
Type: MCSA
The nurse is caring for clients in Stage II/III Alzheimer’s disease. If Orem’s theory is applied, which type of
nursing system should the nurse use when providing client care?
1. Supportive
2. Educative
3. Partly compensatory
4. Wholly compensatory
Question 10
Type: MCSA
A nurse educator incorporates stress, power, authority, and personal space along with other concepts and
considers these concepts essential knowledge for use by nurses. From which theorist is the educator applying
principles into the curriculum?
1. Dorothea Orem
2. Imogene King
3. Jean Watson
4. Hildegard Peplau
Question 11
Type: MCSA
The nurse is applying Neuman’s systems model during client care. Which response should the nurse identify as an
intrapersonal stressor to a client?
1. Inadequate health insurance coverage
2. Family members who quarrel frequently about the client’s care
3. Adverse reaction to medication
4. Expectations regarding rehab
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Question 12
Type: MCSA
A client is being seen in the clinic for the final follow-up appointment after an extensive course of rehabilitation.
According to Neuman’s model, which level of intervention should the nurse realize this patient is experiencing?
1. Primary prevention
2. Secondary prevention
3. Resistant prevention
4. Tertiary prevention
Question 13
Type: MCSA
A client with a postoperative infection is afebrile but still receiving IV antibiotics. The nurse should realize that
this client is receiving which level of prevention?
1. Primary
2. Secondary
3. Tertiary
4. Critical
Question 14
Type: MCSA
A group of nursing students is helping to set up an immunization clinic. In which level of prevention are these
students functioning?
1. Educational
2. Primary
3. Secondary
4. Tertiary
Question 15
Type: MCSA
The nurse is preparing to complete a spiritual assessment with a client. Which theorist should the nurse review
before completing this assessment?
1. Roy
2. Neuman
3. Nightingale
4. Peplau
Question 16
Type: MCSA
The nurse observes a client working to include the spouse in the treatment and recovery process of an illness.
Which of Roy’s modes should the nurse recognize that this client is demonstrating?
1. Physiologic
2. Self-concept
3. Role function
4. Interdependence