The nursing instructor is teaching a class on nursing theory. One ...

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The nursing instructor is teaching a class on nursing theory. One of the students asks, Why do we need to know this stuff? It doesn't really affect patients. What is the instructor's best response?
 
  a. You are correct, but we have to learn it anyway.
  b. This keeps the focus of nursing narrow.
  c. Theories help explain why nurses do what they do.
  d. Exposure to theories will help you later in graduate school.

Question 2

Which community-based nursing activities indicate the nurse is working in the role of educator? (Select all that apply.)
 
  a. Offers prenatal classes
  b. Offers a child safety program
  c. Offers to defend patients' decisions
  d. Offers creative solutions to local problems
  e. Offers coordinate resources after discharge

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
Theories offer well-grounded rationales for how and why nurses perform specific interventions and for predicting and/or prescribing nursing care measures. Although nursing theory will help the nurse in graduate school, it is also an important basis for the nurse's approach to daily patient care, and it expands scientific knowledge of the profession.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A, B
Prenatal classes, infant care, child safety, and cancer screening are just some of the health education programs provided in a community practice setting. Offers to defend patients' decisions is the role of patient advocate. Offers creative solutions to local problems indicates a change agent. Collaborator will offer to coordinate resources after discharge.

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