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JGIBBSON · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

Nursing staff members from an acute psychiatric unit have been asked to establish a nurse theorist they can easily identify with in their practice.

Understanding the importance of developing a therapeutic relationship between themselves and their clients, especially in this unit, to which theorist would they most likely be drawn?
1. Florence Nightingale
2. Hildegard Peplau
3. Jean Watson
4. Dorothea Orem

Question 2

A nurse is caring for a client with a severe head trauma. Each shift, the nurse pays attention to the lighting, atmosphere, and surroundings the client is exposed to. The nurse is functioning according to the assumptions of which nursing theorist?

1. Dorothea Orem
2. Martha Rogers
3. Florence Nightingale
4. Jean Watson

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

Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: Florence Nightingale's theory focused on environmental controls.
Rationale 2: Hildegard Peplau, a psychiatric nurse, introduced a theory in which a therapeutic relationship between the nurse and client is central.
Rationale 3: Jean Watson's theory has caring as its central theme.
Rationale 4: Dorothea Orem's theory focused on self-care deficit.

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: 3
Rationale 1: Dorothea Orem's theory focused on self-care and doesn't apply here.
Rationale 2: Rogers's theory is the science of unitary human beings and doesn't apply here.
Rationale 3: Florence Nightingale defined nursing more than 100 years ago as the act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery. Attending to the client's surroundings, including the lighting and atmosphere, is being attentive to the client's environment. Deficiencies in environmental factors (especially air, water, drainage, cleanliness, and light) have produced lack of health or illness.
Rationale 4: Jean Watson defined nursing in relationship to caring and doesn't apply here.