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Test Questions & Answers Theories and Models of Nursing Ch.3

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Chapter 3: Theories and Models of Nursing

Questions

1. The nursing profession tends to use which term when attempting to explain apparent relationships between observed behaviors and their effects on a client’s health?

1. Model

2. Theory

3. Hypothesis

4. Evidence

2. Which of the following is a very important element in the Roy adaptation model because it provides baseline data about the client that the nurse obtains through assessment techniques?

1. Input

2. Output

3. Feedback

4. Throughput

3. Factors in the client’s past, such as personality characteristics, past experiences, religious beliefs, and social norms, that have an indirect effect on the client’s health status are referred to as which type of stimuli?

1. Focal stimuli

2. Contextual stimuli

3. Residual stimuli

4. Factual stimuli

4. The current widely accepted practice of establishing health-care goals for clients and directing client care to meet these goals has its origins in which model?

1. Roy adaptation model

2. Orem self-care model

3. King model of goal attainment

4. Watson model of human caring

5. Which element of the King model of goal attainment refers to a life situation in which perceivers and things perceived are encountered and entered into as active participants?

1. Action

2. Reaction

3. Interaction

4. Transaction

6. According to which model, illness is the client’s inability to integrate life experiences and the failure to achieve full potential or inner harmony?

1. Roy adaptation model

2. Orem self-care model

3. King model of goal attainment

4. Watson model of human caring

7. According to the Johnson behavioral system model, nurturing and promoting self-image is the primary type of activity of which behavioral subsystem?

1. Security

2. Dependency

3. Taking in

4. Eliminative behavior

8. Select from the following the model in which the client-system’s boundaries are called lines of defense and resistance and may be represented graphically as a series of concentric circles that surround the basic core of the individual.

1. Orem self-care model

2. Neuman health-care systems model

3. King model of goal attainment

4. Watson model of human caring

9. According to the Neuman health-care systems model, which type of stressors occur within the client and include physiological responses, psychological reactions, and internal thought processes?

1. Extrapersonal stressors

2. Interpersonal stressors

3. Intrapersonal stressors

4. Transpersonal stressors

10. According to the Neuman health-care system model, teaching clients about stress management, giving immunizations, and encouraging aerobic exercise to prevent heart disease are examples of which type of intervention?

1. Primary intervention

2. Secondary intervention

3. Tertiary intervention

4. Quaternary intervention

11. Teaching a client how to care for a colostomy bag at home after discharge from the hospital is an example of a nursing activity at which level?

1. Primary level

2. Secondary level

3. Tertiary level

4. Quaternary level

12. Formulated in 1987, which model is widely used as the theoretical framework for research on prenatal care and pregnancy?

1. Parse model

2. Pender’s health promotion model

3. Swanson’s theory of caring

4. Orem self-care model

13. Although originally studied in the perinatal setting, which of the following has been adopted into many other health-care settings, including critical care, mental health, public health, hospice, gerontology, and oncology?

1. Parse model

2. Pender’s health promotion model

3. Swanson’s theory of caring

4. Orem self-care model

14. In which model is nursing an activity that helps the individual achieve and maintain an optimal level of behavior through the manipulation and regulation of the environment?

1. Parse model

2. Johnson behavioral system model

3. Swanson’s theory of caring

4. Orem self-care model

15. The main concern in the development of which model was to balance the impersonal aspects of nursing care that are found in the technological and scientific aspects of practice with the personal and interpersonal elements that grow from a humanistic belief in life?

1. Watson model of human caring

2. Johnson behavioral system model

3. Swanson’s theory of caring

4. Orem self-care model

Questions, Answers, and Rationales

1. The nursing profession tends to use which term when attempting to explain apparent relationships between observed behaviors and their effects on a client’s health?

1. Model

2. Theory

3. Hypothesis

4. Evidence

Page: 2

 

Feedback

1.

2.

3.

4.

2. Which of the following is a very important element in the Roy adaptation model because it provides baseline data about the client that the nurse obtains through assessment techniques?

1. Input

2. Output

3. Feedback

4. Throughput

Page: 20

 

 

Feedback

1.

2.

3.

4.

3. Factors in the client’s past, such as personality characteristics, past experiences, religious beliefs, and social norms, that have an indirect effect on the client’s health status are referred to as which type of stimuli?

1. Focal stimuli

2. Contextual stimuli

3. Residual stimuli

4. Factual stimuli

Page: 22

Feedback

1.

2.

3.

4.

4. The current widely accepted practice of establishing health-care goals for clients and directing client care to meet these goals has its origins in which model?

1. Roy adaptation model

2. Orem self-care model

3. King model of goal attainment

4. Watson model of human caring

Page: 28

Feedback

1.

2.

3.

4.

5. Which element of the King model of goal attainment refers to a life situation in which perceivers and things perceived are encountered and entered into as active participants?

1. Action

2. Reaction

3. Interaction

4. Transaction

Page: 31

Feedback

1.

2.

3.

4.

6. According to which model, illness is the client’s inability to integrate life experiences and the failure to achieve full potential or inner harmony?

1. Roy adaptation model

2. Orem self-care model

3. King model of goal attainment

4. Watson model of human caring

Page: 33

Feedback

1.

2.

3.

4.

7. According to the Johnson behavioral system model, nurturing and promoting self-image is the primary type of activity of which behavioral subsystem?

1. Security

2. Dependency

3. Taking in

4. Eliminative behavior

Page: 37

Feedback

1.

2.

3.

4.

8. Select from the following the model in which the client-system’s boundaries are called lines of defense and resistance and may be represented graphically as a series of concentric circles that surround the basic core of the individual.

1. Orem self-care model

2. Neuman health-care systems model

3. King model of goal attainment

4. Watson model of human caring

Page: 41

Feedback

1.

2.

3.

4.

9. According to the Neuman health-care systems model, which type of stressors occur within the client and include physiological responses, psychological reactions, and internal thought processes?

1. Extrapersonal stressors

2. Interpersonal stressors

3. Intrapersonal stressors

4. Transpersonal stressors

Page: 42

Feedback

1.

2.

3.

4.

10. According to the Neuman health-care system model, teaching clients about stress management, giving immunizations, and encouraging aerobic exercise to prevent heart disease are examples of which type of intervention?

1. Primary intervention

2. Secondary intervention

3. Tertiary intervention

4. Quaternary intervention

Page: 43

Feedback

1.

2.

3.

4.

11. Teaching a client how to care for a colostomy bag at home after discharge from the hospital is an example of a nursing activity at which level?

1. Primary level

2. Secondary level

3. Tertiary level

4. Quaternary level

Page: 43

Feedback

1.

2.

3.

4.

12. Formulated in 1987, which model is widely used as the theoretical framework for research on prenatal care and pregnancy?

1. Parse model

2. Pender’s health promotion model

3. Swanson’s theory of caring

4. Orem self-care model

Page: 46

Feedback

1.

2.

3.

4.

13. Although originally studied in the perinatal setting, which of the following has been adopted into many other health-care settings, including critical care, mental health, public health, hospice, gerontology, and oncology?

1. Parse model

2. Pender’s health promotion model

3. Swanson’s theory of caring

4. Orem self-care model

Page: 47

Feedback

1.

2.

3.

4.

14. In which model is nursing is an activity that helps the individual achieve and maintain an optimal level of behavior through the manipulation and regulation of the environment?

1. Parse model

2. Johnson behavioral system model

3. Swanson’s theory of caring

4. Orem self-care model

Page: 40

Feedback

1.

2.

3.

4.

15. The main concern in the development of which model was to balance the impersonal aspects of nursing care that are found in the technological and scientific aspects of practice with the personal and interpersonal elements that grow from a humanistic belief in life?

1. Watson model of human caring

2. Johnson behavioral system model

3. Swanson’s theory of caring

4. Orem self-care model

Page: 32

Feedback

1.

2.

3.

4.

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Chapter Number:
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Created Date:
Aug 21, 2025
Chapter Name:
Chapter 3 Theories and Models of Nursing
Author:
Joseph T. Catalano

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