According to Paterson and Zderad, Why Is Nursing a Call

question 10

Multiple Choice

According to Paterson and Zderad, why is nursing a call and response relationship?

• A) Nursing theories call for nursing practice to change and the discipline responds by reforming educational standards.
• B) Nurses call for revisions of theory reflective of their experience and theorists respond with new theoretical explanations.
• C) Patients call for care with the expectation that unmet needs will be satisfied and nurses respond with intention of providing that care.
• D) Health care systems call for more efficient nursing care that is less expensive and nurses respond by turning back to older theories of care.

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