NURS 3320 EVALUATION 2026 EXAM TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔cultural brokering - ✔✔bridging the gap between the client's culture and the health
care culture on behalf of the client
✔✔cultural repatterning - ✔✔assisting the client to change or modify a non-beneficial
cultural practice while respecting cultural values
✔✔barriers to culturally competent care? - ✔✔ethnocentrism and cultural imposition
✔✔ethnocentrism - ✔✔tendency to view our own group or culture as superior or better
than others
✔✔cultural imposition - ✔✔imposing one's own cultural values, beliefs , and practices
on others
✔✔stereotyping? - ✔✔categorizing or labeling a person based on race, ethnicity, or
culture
✔✔prejudice? - ✔✔a belief or attitude toward a group of people based on race, ethnicity
or culture; can be conscientious or unconscientious; an unconscientious prejudice is
called implicit bias
,✔✔discrimination? - ✔✔an action or behavior taken toward an individual (or group)
based on race, ethnicity or culture
✔✔religion, sprirituality and nursing care? - ✔✔to provide holistic care to pts and
families, nurses must support not only the physical concerns, but also the
mental/emotional and spiritual needs
✔✔religion? - ✔✔the service and worship of God or the supernatural; a personal set or
institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices
✔✔spirituality? - ✔✔something different to everyone; for some, it is faith and practice of
a particular religion
for others spirituality is a non-religious experience that varies from person to person,
some practice spirituality without particular religious faith (compassion, transcendence)
an example is the spirt of forgiveness or spirit of harmony
✔✔why do nurses neglect spiritual needs of their pts? - ✔✔religion and spirituality is
viewed as a private matter
nurses are uncomfortable with their own beliefs or deny having any religious/spiritual
beliefs
lack of knowledge regarding different religions and beliefs
psychosocial needs are mistaken for spiritual needs
meeting the religious or spiritual needs are not seen as a nursing responsibility
✔✔Buddhism general beliefs? - ✔✔foundation is based on four noble truths
1. truth of suffering
2. truth of the origin of suffering
3. suffering can be destroyed
4. the way that leads to the cessation of pain
eightfold path leads to Nirvana and includes
- understand suffering
- renounce all attachments
- express oneself lovingly
- behave correctly
- avoid hurting others
- work towards spiritual growth
- develop the ability to reflect on personal experience
- establish perfect intellectual concentration
✔✔Buddhism birth? - ✔✔Reincarnation allows for the opportunity to reach Nirvana
✔✔Buddhism death? - ✔✔Euthanasia is allowed if life cannot be prolonged. This allows
the person to be reincarnated and continue their path to enlightenment
, Peace and quiet should be provided at time of death
The more composed and calm the mind is at death, the greater opportunity for a better
rebirth
After death the body is kept in peaceful state for 3 days- the body is taken home and is
untouched
Following death, the spirit enters a "Bardo" or intermediary spirit for up to 49 days
before the new life begins
Mourning periods are not usual as reincarnation allows the person to be "reborn"
✔✔Buddhism dietary practices? - ✔✔some are vegetarians some are not
moderation is encouraged
✔✔Buddhism health care practices? - ✔✔- Believe in Karma and that for every action
there is a consequence in this life or a future life. Illness may be attributed to poor
choices in this or a previous life
- Spiritual peace and liberation from anxiety promote healing and recovery
- No restrictions on medications, vaccines or other medical interventions. As long as the
therapy aids in the person's path to enlightenment it is allowed.
- Birth control is accepted
✔✔Buddhism Holidays? - ✔✔- Saga Dawa is the observation of Buddha's birth
- Fasting may be observed
✔✔Christianity general beliefs? - ✔✔Began as a sect of Judaism. Followers believed
Jesus was the promised messiah
Many denominations exist within Christianity
Belief in one God and most believe in the three dimensions of God (trinity) known as
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The death and resurrection of Jesus provides an opportunity for salvation
The sacrament of baptism signifies the passage into Christianity
The sacrament of communion (practiced by some branches) is a symbol of the body
and blood of Jesus Christ
✔✔Christianity birth? - ✔✔considered a time of celebration
many denominations prohibit the use of birth control
✔✔Christianity death? - ✔✔believe in an afterlife
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔cultural brokering - ✔✔bridging the gap between the client's culture and the health
care culture on behalf of the client
✔✔cultural repatterning - ✔✔assisting the client to change or modify a non-beneficial
cultural practice while respecting cultural values
✔✔barriers to culturally competent care? - ✔✔ethnocentrism and cultural imposition
✔✔ethnocentrism - ✔✔tendency to view our own group or culture as superior or better
than others
✔✔cultural imposition - ✔✔imposing one's own cultural values, beliefs , and practices
on others
✔✔stereotyping? - ✔✔categorizing or labeling a person based on race, ethnicity, or
culture
✔✔prejudice? - ✔✔a belief or attitude toward a group of people based on race, ethnicity
or culture; can be conscientious or unconscientious; an unconscientious prejudice is
called implicit bias
,✔✔discrimination? - ✔✔an action or behavior taken toward an individual (or group)
based on race, ethnicity or culture
✔✔religion, sprirituality and nursing care? - ✔✔to provide holistic care to pts and
families, nurses must support not only the physical concerns, but also the
mental/emotional and spiritual needs
✔✔religion? - ✔✔the service and worship of God or the supernatural; a personal set or
institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices
✔✔spirituality? - ✔✔something different to everyone; for some, it is faith and practice of
a particular religion
for others spirituality is a non-religious experience that varies from person to person,
some practice spirituality without particular religious faith (compassion, transcendence)
an example is the spirt of forgiveness or spirit of harmony
✔✔why do nurses neglect spiritual needs of their pts? - ✔✔religion and spirituality is
viewed as a private matter
nurses are uncomfortable with their own beliefs or deny having any religious/spiritual
beliefs
lack of knowledge regarding different religions and beliefs
psychosocial needs are mistaken for spiritual needs
meeting the religious or spiritual needs are not seen as a nursing responsibility
✔✔Buddhism general beliefs? - ✔✔foundation is based on four noble truths
1. truth of suffering
2. truth of the origin of suffering
3. suffering can be destroyed
4. the way that leads to the cessation of pain
eightfold path leads to Nirvana and includes
- understand suffering
- renounce all attachments
- express oneself lovingly
- behave correctly
- avoid hurting others
- work towards spiritual growth
- develop the ability to reflect on personal experience
- establish perfect intellectual concentration
✔✔Buddhism birth? - ✔✔Reincarnation allows for the opportunity to reach Nirvana
✔✔Buddhism death? - ✔✔Euthanasia is allowed if life cannot be prolonged. This allows
the person to be reincarnated and continue their path to enlightenment
, Peace and quiet should be provided at time of death
The more composed and calm the mind is at death, the greater opportunity for a better
rebirth
After death the body is kept in peaceful state for 3 days- the body is taken home and is
untouched
Following death, the spirit enters a "Bardo" or intermediary spirit for up to 49 days
before the new life begins
Mourning periods are not usual as reincarnation allows the person to be "reborn"
✔✔Buddhism dietary practices? - ✔✔some are vegetarians some are not
moderation is encouraged
✔✔Buddhism health care practices? - ✔✔- Believe in Karma and that for every action
there is a consequence in this life or a future life. Illness may be attributed to poor
choices in this or a previous life
- Spiritual peace and liberation from anxiety promote healing and recovery
- No restrictions on medications, vaccines or other medical interventions. As long as the
therapy aids in the person's path to enlightenment it is allowed.
- Birth control is accepted
✔✔Buddhism Holidays? - ✔✔- Saga Dawa is the observation of Buddha's birth
- Fasting may be observed
✔✔Christianity general beliefs? - ✔✔Began as a sect of Judaism. Followers believed
Jesus was the promised messiah
Many denominations exist within Christianity
Belief in one God and most believe in the three dimensions of God (trinity) known as
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The death and resurrection of Jesus provides an opportunity for salvation
The sacrament of baptism signifies the passage into Christianity
The sacrament of communion (practiced by some branches) is a symbol of the body
and blood of Jesus Christ
✔✔Christianity birth? - ✔✔considered a time of celebration
many denominations prohibit the use of birth control
✔✔Christianity death? - ✔✔believe in an afterlife
