Author Question: A patient is angry and frustrated and is complaining bitterly to the nurse about these feelings. The ... (Read 56 times)

storky111 · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

A patient is angry and frustrated and is complaining bitterly to the nurse about these feelings. The nurse sits quietly and listens attentively, nodding occasionally. What Watson caritas process is the nurse using?

a. Creating a healing environment
b. Developing helping, trusting, and caring relationships
c. Practicing loving kindness
d. Promoting and accepting positive and negative feelings

Question 2

The nursing instructor explains that a theory, at its simplest, aims to do what?

a. Describe, explain, or predict relationships among concepts.
b. Explain nursing in the broadest terms possible.
c. Generate knowledge to be tested in practice situations.
d. Predict what people will do in certain situations.

olivia_paige29 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

D
Promoting and accepting positive and negative feelings as you listen to another's story is being demonstrated by this nurse. The other options are other caritas processes, but allowing the patient to reveal his or her narrative while not shutting down the negative feelings is the prime activity.

Answer to Question 2

A
Nursing theories aim to describe, explain, or predict relationships among the four main concepts of nursing: person, environment, health/illness, and nursing. They are not all broad theories; some are quite specific and limited to particular situations. Not all theories aim to generate knowledge. Theories cannot predict what all people will do in a certain situation.