A patient who emigrated from India is admitted to the medical step-down unit with a bowel obstruction. A nasogastric (NG) tube is inserted to decompress her stomach. She asks the nurse if her daughter can bring in garlic to administer through her NG tube
The nurse tells the patient that she will ask the physician when she makes rounds. This nurse is utilizing the theory developed by which nurse theorist?
1) Betty Neuman
2) Dorothea Orem
3) Callista Roy
4) Madeline Leininger
ANS: 4
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