The nurse who uses his or her whole self to achieve the moral ideal when caring for the patient with mental illness is providing care most closely associated with which nursing theorist?
1. Patricia Benner
2. Martha Rogers
3. Hildegard Peplau
4. Florence Nightingale
Answer: 4
Explanation: Florence Nightingale believed that the nurse achieves "the moral ideal" when using
"the whole self " to establish a caring relationship with the patient. While the other answer choices were nurse theorists, these individuals did not emphasize "the moral ideal" as Nightingale did.
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