All Free Nursing Management and Ethics MCQs with Answers

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  • A. Completing physical care quickly before documenting findings
  • B. Using a caring presence while supporting the patient's meaning and dignity
  • C. Following the medical prescription without discussing personal concerns
  • D. Limiting communication to questions about symptoms and vital signs

Explanation: Watson emphasizes a transpersonal caring relationship, respect for human dignity and attention to the person's meaning of the experience.

Correct answer: Using a caring presence while supporting the patient's meaning and dignity
Moderate
  • A. Mutual goal setting through nurse-patient interaction
  • B. Environmental control through improved ventilation
  • C. Replacement of all self-care by the nurse
  • D. Reduction of anxiety through free association

Explanation: King's theory focuses on interaction, communication and transactions that help the nurse and patient set mutually agreed goals.

Correct answer: Mutual goal setting through nurse-patient interaction
  • A. Nursing helps a person perform activities contributing to health or recovery
  • B. Nursing mainly prevents stressors from reaching an open system
  • C. Nursing is primarily a therapeutic interpersonal relationship
  • D. Nursing focuses mainly on adaptation to internal and external stimuli

Explanation: Henderson described nursing as assisting individuals with activities they would perform independently if they had the strength, will or…

Correct answer: Nursing helps a person perform activities contributing to health or recovery
Fairly easy
  • A. The person is viewed as an integrated, holistic system
  • B. The person is viewed only as a collection of symptoms
  • C. The environment is viewed as unrelated to health outcomes
  • D. The nurse is viewed as the sole source of treatment decisions

Explanation: Major nursing theories commonly view the person as a whole whose physical, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions interact.

Correct answer: The person is viewed as an integrated, holistic system
Moderate
  • A. Roy's adaptation model
  • B. Nightingale's environmental theory
  • C. Peplau's interpersonal relations theory
  • D. Orem's self-care deficit theory

Explanation: Roy's model guides nursing toward promoting adaptation to health changes by assessing stimuli and adaptive responses.

Correct answer: Roy's adaptation model
  • A. It contains related concepts and statements explaining their relationships
  • B. It gives one instruction for completing a clinical procedure
  • C. It lists only the normal range of a laboratory value
  • D. It describes one patient's response without broader meaning

Explanation: A nursing theory is an organized set of concepts and propositions that explains or predicts nursing-related phenomena.

Correct answer: It contains related concepts and statements explaining their relationships
Fairly easy
  • A. To provide an organized framework for nursing practice
  • B. To replace clinical judgment with fixed instructions
  • C. To ensure every patient receives identical interventions
  • D. To restrict assessment to physical findings only

Explanation: Nursing theories organize assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation around related concepts.

Correct answer: To provide an organized framework for nursing practice
  • A. The person as a behavioral system with organized subsystems
  • B. The person as a collection of independent physical organs
  • C. The person as a passive receiver of medical treatment
  • D. The person as a set of separate environmental responses

Explanation: Johnson viewed the person as a behavioral system made up of interacting subsystems, such as attachment, dependency and achievement.

Correct answer: The person as a behavioral system with organized subsystems
Fairly easy
  • A. Levine's conservation model
  • B. Rogers' unitary human beings model
  • C. Peplau's interpersonal relations theory
  • D. Pender's health promotion model

Explanation: Levine's conservation model emphasizes conservation of energy, structural integrity, personal integrity and social integrity.

Correct answer: Levine's conservation model
  • A. An irreducible whole in continuous interaction with the environment
  • B. A group of separate systems that function independently
  • C. A passive recipient who depends on nursing direction
  • D. A collection of behaviors controlled mainly by social rules

Explanation: Rogers described people and environments as irreducible energy fields that are continuously changing and interacting.

Correct answer: An irreducible whole in continuous interaction with the environment
  • A. Orlando's nursing process theory
  • B. Levine's conservation model
  • C. Johnson's behavioral system model
  • D. Rogers' unitary human beings theory

Explanation: Orlando's theory requires the nurse to explore the patient's behavior, identify the nurse's immediate reaction and validate its meaning…

Correct answer: Orlando's nursing process theory
  • A. Factors that influence health-promoting behaviors
  • B. Stages of adaptation after a stressful stimulus
  • C. Protection from environmental stressors and instability
  • D. The nurse's role in restoring physical independence

Explanation: Pender's model explains how personal experiences, perceived benefits, perceived barriers and self-efficacy influence health-promoting…

Correct answer: Factors that influence health-promoting behaviors
Moderate
  • A. Meaning
  • B. Homeostasis
  • C. Dependency
  • D. Environmental control

Explanation: Parse's theory emphasizes that people create meaning, pattern their relationships and transcend situations.

Correct answer: Meaning
  • A. Joyce Travelbee
  • B. Dorothy Johnson
  • C. Myra Levine
  • D. Dorothea Orem

Explanation: Travelbee described nursing as a human-to-human relationship in which the nurse helps the person find meaning in illness and suffering.

Correct answer: Joyce Travelbee
Moderate
  • A. Primary prevention
  • B. Secondary prevention
  • C. Tertiary prevention
  • D. Rehabilitative prevention

Explanation: Primary prevention occurs before a stressor reaction develops and aims to strengthen the person's defenses.

Correct answer: Primary prevention
  • A. Henderson's basic needs approach
  • B. Orem's wholly compensatory system
  • C. Roy's cognator coping subsystem
  • D. Peplau's resolution phase

Explanation: Henderson identified basic needs that support independence, including breathing, nutrition, movement and communication.

Correct answer: Henderson's basic needs approach
Moderate
  • A. A theory is generally more specific and testable than a conceptual model
  • B. A conceptual model always includes more measurable variables than a theory
  • C. A theory is only a personal opinion and cannot guide nursing practice
  • D. A conceptual model is limited to one patient and cannot organize nursing care

Explanation: Conceptual models provide broad, organized views of nursing phenomena, whereas theories usually state more specific relationships that can…

Correct answer: A theory is generally more specific and testable than a conceptual model
Fairly easy
  • A. Novice
  • B. Advanced beginner
  • C. Competent
  • D. Proficient

Explanation: A novice has little or no experience in the clinical situation and relies on rules and supervision.

Correct answer: Novice
Fairly easy
  • A. Leininger's transcultural nursing theory
  • B. Benner's skill acquisition model
  • C. Hall's care, core and cure model
  • D. Abdellah's nursing problems model

Explanation: Leininger's theory focuses on culturally congruent care that fits the patient's values, beliefs and lifeways.

Correct answer: Leininger's transcultural nursing theory
Moderate
  • A. Orlando's nursing process theory
  • B. Rogers' unitary human beings theory
  • C. Levine's conservation model
  • D. Pender's health promotion model

Explanation: Orlando's theory emphasises the nurse's reaction to patient behaviour, validation of its meaning and deliberate nursing action.

Correct answer: Orlando's nursing process theory