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Themember4 · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

A nurse shows an understanding of the practical nursing application of Watson's Assumptions of Caring philosophy when:

1. Asking the client to explain the impact that his culture and religion will have on required nursing care.
2. Asking clients when they prefer to be given the opportunity to bathe.
3. Feeling empathy towards the client's loss of mobility as a result of a fractured hip.
4. Always assuring the client has an unobstructed view out his room's window.
5. Arranging to fulfill a client's request to stay with him during a painful diagnostic test.

Question 2

A nurse shows an understanding of the central concepts of nursing when:

1. Including a client's family in discussions regarding the client's discharge health needs.
2. Assessing a physically dependent client's spouse for indications of caregiver stress.
3. Asking the clients to define what healthy and well' means to them.
4. Suggesting wound care supplies with the priority of cost.
5. Advocating for a client who is not responding to current pain control treatment.

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

Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: 2,3,5
Rationale 1: This is more relevant to Leininger's Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory.
Rationale 2: Watson proposes that a caring environment offers the development of potential while allowing the person to choose the best action for the self at a given point in time.
Rationale 3: Watson proposes that human caring in nursing is not just an emotion, concern, attitude, or benevolent desire. Caring connotes a personal response such as empathy.
Rationale 4: This is more relevant to Roy's Adaptation Model.
Rationale 5: Watson proposes that caring occasions involve action and choice by nurse and client. If the caring occasion is transpersonal, the limits of openness expand, as do human capacities.

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: 1,2,3,5
Rationale 1: One of the recognized central concepts of nursing is that the recipients of nursing care include individuals, families, groups, and communities.
Rationale 2: One of the recognized central concepts of nursing is that the nurse addresses the client's environmental surroundings, including people in the physical environment, such as families, friends, and significant others, for unmet needs that ultimately affect the client.
Rationale 3: One of the recognized central concepts of nursing is that health is the degree of wellness or well-being that the client experiences.
Rationale 4: While important, economic frugality is not a central concept of nursing care.
Rationale 5: One of the recognized central concepts of nursing is that the nurse provides care on behalf of, or in conjunction with, the client.