The nurse has established a relationship with a patient in whom asthma was recently diagnosed. Through their interactions, the nurse helps the patient understand the mechanism of asthma and develop the skills to use a spacer with the inhaler
The nurse could be basing care on the theory of
a.
Leininger.
b.
Peplau.
c.
Orlando.
d.
Neuman.
ANS: B
A
Leininger encouraged nurses to use creativity to discover cultural aspects of human needs and use these findings to make culturally congruent therapeutic decisions.
B
Peplau focused on what happens between the nurse and patient in a therapeutic relationship. It is through the relationship that the patient is helped to deal with health issues.
C
Orlando's theory proposes how nurses process their observations of patient behavior and how they react to patients based on inferences from patients' behavior.
D
Neuman focused on the person and the environment as systems.
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