Author Question: With respect to the concept of caring, most nursing theories a. Embrace the disease orientation ... (Read 43 times)

stephzh · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

With respect to the concept of caring, most nursing theories

a. Embrace the disease orientation to health care as Watson does.
b. Recognize Leininger's theory and reject culture as a caring force.
c. Identify caring as highly relational involving patient and nurse.
d. Stress the universality of the expression of caring.

Question 2

Which of these findings, if identified in a plan of care, should the registered nurse revise because it is not characteristic of critical thinking and the nursing process?

a. Patient's reactions to diagnostic testing
b. Nurse's assumptions about hospital discharge
c. Identification of five different nursing diagnoses
d. Documentation of patient's ability to cope with loss

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

Answer to Question 1

C
Nursing caring theories have common themes. Caring is highly relational. Caregiving relationships open up possibilities or close them down. Watson's transpersonal caring theory rejects the disease orientation to health care and places care before cure. Leininger stresses the importance of nurses' understanding of cultural caring behaviors. Caring is very personal, thus expression of caring differs for each patient.

Answer to Question 2

B
The nurse should not assume when a patient is going to be discharged and document this information in a plan of care. Making assumptions is not an example of a critical thinking skill. The patient's reactions to testing, having several nursing diagnoses, and a description of the patient's coping abilities are all appropriate to document in the nursing plan of care.