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abarnes · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

A nurse educator believes that teaching students without caring about them is an exercise in futility. This educator also believes that in meeting the students' needs, educators must also work to take care of themselves and care for their own needs.

From which stage of Gilligan's theory is the educator approaching the teaching of students?
1. Stage 1
2. Stage 2
3. Stage 3
4. Stage 4

Question 2

A nurse educator is working with students and assisting them in addressing their clients' spiritual needs.

The educator understands that most traditional, second-year college students are aware of their own spiritual development or working to develop their own system of spirituality. The educator realizes that the students are in which stage of Fowler's developmental theory?
1. Mythic-lyrical
2. Intuitive-projective
3. Universalizing
4. Individuating-reflexive

tandmlomax84 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: 3
Rationale 1: Stage 1 is caring for oneself.
Rationale 2: Stage 2 is caring for others.
Rationale 3: Gilligan's stage 3caring for self and othersis the last stage of development, where a person sees the need for a balance between caring for others and caring for the self.
Rationale 4: Gilligan does not describe more than three stages in her theory.

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: 4
Rationale 1: Mythical-lyrical describes the person between ages 7 and 12, in a private world of fantasy and wonder.
Rationale 2: The intuitive-projective stage, ages 4 to 6 years, is a combination of images and beliefs given by trusted others, mixed with the child's own experience and imagination.
Rationale 3: Universalizing, which may never be reached by an individual, is a stage of becoming incarnate of the principles of love and justice.
Rationale 4: Fowler describes this as a stage in which the person is constructing his or her own explicit system with a high degree of self-consciousness.