Upon the client's arrival on the patient care unit, the nurse begins implementation of the nursing process. Of which nursing theorist should the nurse's practice be most reflective?
1. Ida Jean Orlando
2. Jean Watson
3. Dorothea Orem
4. Hildegard Peplau
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Rationale: Some say that the phases of Peplau's therapeutic nurse–client relationship are ancestors of the phases of the nursing process. While Orem, Watson, and Orlando guide the nurse in areas for assessment, analysis, planning, intervention, evaluation, etc., they do not identify specific phases or steps of the nurse–client interaction process.
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Which of the following signifies the strongest relationship?
A) r = -0.64 B) M = 0.99 C) t = 1.44 D) r = 0.57
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