The nurse views her client as an individual who has self-care deficits that need to be addressed. The nurse works with the client to assist him or her to meet self-care needs, such as personal grooming,
until the client can care for himself or herself independently. This is an example of which of the following theoretical approaches?
A) Parse's Theory of Human Becoming
B) Roy's Theory of Adaptation
C) Orem's Behavioral Nursing Theory
D) Peplau's Interpersonal Theory
Question 2
When the mental health nurse assesses her client, who has been admitted to an inpatient psychiatric unit for depression, she takes into account that the family will not have income while the client is hospitalized.
This assessment by the nurse regarding the impact of client's hospitalization on the family system can best be described as what?
A) A theoretical approach, whereby the nurse uses systems-oriented theory to understand her client and to plan his care
B) A practical approach, wherein the nurse can now work to get some funds for the family
C) An outcome-oriented approach, whereby the nurse sees lack of funds as an outcome
D) A somewhat ineffective way to look at this hospitalization because the client is now ill
Critical thinking involves analysis in which the nurse examines patient data available from a variet
A nurse prepares a client for anesthesia and surgery.
A nurse communicates with her non–English-speaking patient through an interpreter
Health care - patient-centered
The client is positioned for the examination
Overweight individual with acanthosis nigricans