Fundamentals of Nursing

According to Henderson, what is the main focus of nursing?

• Promoting a healthy lifestyle

• Assisting the individual in the performance of activities contributing to health or recovery

• Providing the most favorable environment for nature to act

• Curing and healing

Who defined nursing as 'caring'?

• Henderson

• Nightingale

• Watson

• Peplau

Fill in the blank: Nightingale defined nursing as providing the most ______ environment to an individual for nature to act in order to promote 'reparativeness' and maintenance of health and well-being.

• favorable

• sterile

• artificial

• hostile

Which of the following is NOT a goal of nursing?

• Promotion of health

• Prevention of illness

• Restoration of health

• Environmental protection

Fill in the blank: The scope of nursing care includes Individual, Families, and ________.

• Communities

• Hospitals

• Doctors

• Diseases

According to the modern definition, nursing is a science and an art that focuses on promoting quality of life as determined by persons and families throughout their life experiences from birth until the end of life.

• True

• False

Which theorist focused on organizing and manipulating the physical, social, and psychological environment to put the person in the best possible conditions for nature to act?

• Florence Nightingale

• Hildegard Peplau

• Virginia Henderson

• Watson

Fill in the blank: Hildegard Peplau presents nursing as an ______ process of therapeutic interactions between the nurse and the patient.

• interpersonal

• mechanical

• solitary

• automatic

Virginia Henderson identifies how many components of nursing care that need to be considered?

• 10

• 12

• 14

• 16

Which theorist focused around the three components of care, core, and cure in nursing?

• Lydia Hall

• Dorothea Orem

• Dorothy E. Johnson

• Faye G. Abdellah