Answer to Question 1
Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: Aesthetic knowledge is the art of nursing and is expressed by nurses in their creativity and style in meeting the needs of clients.
Rationale 2: Empirical knowing ranges from factual, observable phenomena to theoretical analysis. Empirical knowledge is systematic and helps to describe, explain, and predict phenomena.
Rationale 3: Personal knowledge is concerned with the knowing, encountering, and actualizing of the concrete, individual self.
Rationale 4: Creativity is part of aesthetic knowledge.
Answer to Question 2
Correct Answer: 3
Rationale 1: Roach's theory focuses on caring as a philosophical concept and proposes that caring is the human mode of being, or the most common, authentic criterion of humanness.
Rationale 2: Ray's theory of caring focuses on caring in organizations and is influenced by the organizational structure.
Rationale 3: Boykin and Schoenhofer emphasize the importance of the nurse knowing oneself as caring. Through knowing oneself as a caring person, the nurse can be authentic to self, freeing oneself to truly be with others.
Rationale 4: Watson views caring as the essence and the moral ideal of nursing.
The patient and his family meet with the nurse to discuss progress on the patient care plan.
Testing Visual Fields by Confrontation: The nurse and patient should be approximately at an eye to e
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The nurse uses a noninvasive bladder ultrasound to measure the client’s bladder volume.
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Greet a First-Time Client With a Firm Handshake.