Unit VII: Grand Theories Quiz Reviewer

A comprehensive vocabulary reviewer covering Unit VII nursing grand theories, key conceptual lists, and theorist achievements.

Modeling and Role-Modeling Theory

A nursing theory developed by Helen C. Erickson, Evelyn M. Tomlin, and Mary Ann P. Swain emphasizing individualized care, unconditional acceptance, nurturance, and helping patients build on their strengths and self-care abilities from their own viewpoint.

Health as Expanding Consciousness

A theory developed by Margaret A. Newman asserting that health and illness are interconnected components of an individual's life pattern, with nursing focused on pattern recognition and finding meaning through movement, space, and time.

Human Becoming Theory

A nursing theory developed by Rosemarie Rizzo Parse focusing on the person's lived experience and personal meaning of quality of life as individuals create meaning, exist in rhythms, and move beyond present circumstances.

Health Promotion Model

A model formulated by Nola J. Pender that explains variables influencing health-promoting behavior, including perceived benefits, barriers, self-efficacy, personal factors, and past experiences.

Culture Care Diversity and Universality Theory

A theory created by Madeleine M. Leininger stating that nursing care should harmonize with a patient's cultural values, beliefs, and way of life to provide culturally congruent care.

Culturally Congruent Care

Nursing care that fits and aligns with the patient's cultural values, beliefs, and lifeways, as conceptualized in Madeleine M. Leininger's theory.

Nursing as Caring

A theory developed by Anne Boykin and Savina Schoenhofer proposing that all persons are caring by nature and that nursing takes place through relationships supporting personhood.

Transitions Theory

A theory established by Afaf Ibrahim Meleis describing how nurses facilitate and support individuals through developmental, health/illness, situational, or organizational changes toward mastery.

Maternal Role Attainment Theory

A theory formulated by Ramona T. Mercer describing how a mother establishes a maternal identity, attachment, confidence, and competence in caring for her child across four stages.

Uncertainty in Illness Theory

A theory developed by Merle H. Mishel explaining how individuals interpret and cope with uncertainty when they cannot adequately interpret illness-related events or forecast outcomes.

Theory of Comfort

A theory developed by Katharine Kolcaba identifying comfort across relief, ease, and transcendence as an essential nursing outcome that enables patients to cope and engage in health-seeking behaviors.

Preservation / Maintenance

One of Madeleine M. Leininger's three nursing care decisions; involves keeping and supporting cultural practices that are beneficial to the patient.

Accommodation / Negotiation

One of Madeleine M. Leininger's three nursing care decisions; involves collaborating with the patient to modify or negotiate care practices in a culturally respectful manner.

Repatterning / Restructuring

One of Madeleine M. Leininger's three nursing care decisions; involves helping modify or change cultural practices that may be harmful while respecting the patient's core values.

Meaning (Parse)

One of Rosemarie Rizzo Parse's three themes; describes how individuals assign personal significance to their life experiences.

Rhythmicity (Parse)

One of Rosemarie Rizzo Parse's three themes; describes the living patterns and cadences of relating with others and the world.

Transcendence (Parse)

One of Rosemarie Rizzo Parse's three themes; refers to the process of reaching or moving beyond the present situation.

Anticipatory Stage

The initial stage of Ramona T. Mercer's Maternal Role Attainment, occurring during pregnancy as the woman prepares for the maternal role.

Formal Stage

The second stage of Ramona T. Mercer's Maternal Role Attainment, occurring after birth as the mother learns and adheres to structured, expected behaviors of motherhood.

Informal Stage

The third stage of Ramona T. Mercer's Maternal Role Attainment, characterized by the mother establishing her own unique, flexible methods of fulfilling the maternal role.

Personal Stage

The final stage of Ramona T. Mercer's Maternal Role Attainment, marked by internalizing maternal identity, developing full confidence, and experiencing maternal competence.

Relief

A comfort state defined in Katharine Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort wherein a specific, identified comfort need is fulfilled.

Ease

A comfort state defined in Katharine Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort characterized by an overall sense of calm, tranquility, or contentment.

Transcendence (Kolcaba)

A comfort state defined in Katharine Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort wherein a patient is empowered to rise above, overcome, or manage pain and adversity.

Developmental Transitions

One of Afaf Ibrahim Meleis's four types of transitions; involves changes and milestones linked with normal physical maturation and lifecycle stages.

Health/Illness Transitions

One of Afaf Ibrahim Meleis's four types of transitions; involves changes related to diagnosis, clinical disease, recovery, and healthcare management.

Situational Transitions

One of Afaf Ibrahim Meleis's four types of transitions; involves shifts in individual social roles, occupations, or personal life circumstances.

Organizational Transitions

One of Afaf Ibrahim Meleis's four types of transitions; encompasses systemic, policy, or operational changes within larger organizations and social structures.

Transcultural Nursing Society

A professional nursing organization established in 1974 by Madeleine M. Leininger to foster culturally congruent nursing care worldwide.

Institute of Humanbecoming

The academic institute founded by Rosemarie Rizzo Parse to advance research and education around the Human Becoming Theory.

Nursing Science Quarterly

A scholarly nursing journal established and founded by theorist Rosemarie Rizzo Parse.

Girls on the Move

An intervention program developed with contributions from Nola J. Pender focused on research into adolescent health-promoting behaviors.

Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Scale

A clinical assessment instrument formulated by Merle H. Mishel to measure how individuals perceive and handle diagnostic and prognostic uncertainty.

Theoretical Nursing: Development and Progress

A seminal nursing textbook authored by Transitions Theory developer Afaf Ibrahim Meleis.

Nursing as Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice

A theoretical text co-authored by Savina Schoenhofer and Anne Boykin detailing the implementation of their caring model in nursing.