NUR 106 EXAM 2 questions and answers A+ Grade 2026\2027
Empathy
- correct answer Identifying with the way another person feels Being sensitive to the feelings and
problems of the client, but remaining objective enough to help the client work to attain a positive
outcome
Sympathy
- correct answer Shifts the emphasis from the patient to the nurse when the nurse shows personal
feeling or concerns
These personal feelings or concerns get projected onto the patient and limit the ability of the nurse to
focus on the patient's needs
Enabling Negative [avoid!]
- correct answer Can support abusive or destructive behavior ◦Can encourage dependence on the
caregiver
ENABLING - Positive [promote!!]
- correct answer ◦ Facilitating another's passage through life transitions or unfamiliar events ◦Goal of
facilitating development ◦Includes coaching, informing, explaining, supporting, assisting, guiding,
focusing, validating
Human Caring Theory
- correct answer Caring is the essence and moral ideal of nursing
Caring is the basis for nursing's role in society
Nurses have a moral commitment to human care
Spirituality
- correct answer Anything that pertains to a person's relationship with a nonmaterial life force or higher
power, creative force, divine being or infinite source of energy
, Unifying life force, life principle, essence of being ■ Expressed or experienced through connectedness
with nature, the earth, the environment, the cosmos; connectedness with other people ■ Shapes self-
becoming; is reflected in one's being, knowing, doing ■ Permeates life; provides purpose, meaning,
strength, guidance
that part of being human that seeks meaningfulness through intra, inter, and transpersonal connection.
Faith
- correct answer A confident belief in something for which there is no proof or material evidence ■
Involves a person, idea or thing and involves action related to the ideals or values of the belief ■ Can
also describe a cultural or institutional religion ■ Atheist vs. agnostic
Religion
- correct answer Organized system of beliefs about a higher power ■ Characterized by set forms of
worship, spiritual practices, codes of conduct ■ Can directly influence a patient's response to illness,
suffering, self-care practices, birth and death rituals, gender roles, spiritual practices, moral codes
CULTURE
- correct answer A shared system of beliefs, values and behavioral expectations that provides social
structure for daily living • Defines roles and interactions with families, communities • Visible in the
attitudes and institutions unique to particular groups
SUBCULTURE
- correct answer • A large group of people, members of a larger culture, but who have certain ethnic,
occupational or physical characteristics not common to the larger culture
Assimilation or acculturation
- correct answer • When a minority culture group lives within a larger dominant group and some loss of
cultural characteristics may occur with values being replaced by the values of the dominant culture
ETHNICITY
- correct answer A sense of identification with a collective cultural group based on the group's common
heritage • Happens through birth or adoption of characteristics of the group • An ethnic group shares
unique cultural and societal beliefs and behavior patterns
Empathy
- correct answer Identifying with the way another person feels Being sensitive to the feelings and
problems of the client, but remaining objective enough to help the client work to attain a positive
outcome
Sympathy
- correct answer Shifts the emphasis from the patient to the nurse when the nurse shows personal
feeling or concerns
These personal feelings or concerns get projected onto the patient and limit the ability of the nurse to
focus on the patient's needs
Enabling Negative [avoid!]
- correct answer Can support abusive or destructive behavior ◦Can encourage dependence on the
caregiver
ENABLING - Positive [promote!!]
- correct answer ◦ Facilitating another's passage through life transitions or unfamiliar events ◦Goal of
facilitating development ◦Includes coaching, informing, explaining, supporting, assisting, guiding,
focusing, validating
Human Caring Theory
- correct answer Caring is the essence and moral ideal of nursing
Caring is the basis for nursing's role in society
Nurses have a moral commitment to human care
Spirituality
- correct answer Anything that pertains to a person's relationship with a nonmaterial life force or higher
power, creative force, divine being or infinite source of energy
, Unifying life force, life principle, essence of being ■ Expressed or experienced through connectedness
with nature, the earth, the environment, the cosmos; connectedness with other people ■ Shapes self-
becoming; is reflected in one's being, knowing, doing ■ Permeates life; provides purpose, meaning,
strength, guidance
that part of being human that seeks meaningfulness through intra, inter, and transpersonal connection.
Faith
- correct answer A confident belief in something for which there is no proof or material evidence ■
Involves a person, idea or thing and involves action related to the ideals or values of the belief ■ Can
also describe a cultural or institutional religion ■ Atheist vs. agnostic
Religion
- correct answer Organized system of beliefs about a higher power ■ Characterized by set forms of
worship, spiritual practices, codes of conduct ■ Can directly influence a patient's response to illness,
suffering, self-care practices, birth and death rituals, gender roles, spiritual practices, moral codes
CULTURE
- correct answer A shared system of beliefs, values and behavioral expectations that provides social
structure for daily living • Defines roles and interactions with families, communities • Visible in the
attitudes and institutions unique to particular groups
SUBCULTURE
- correct answer • A large group of people, members of a larger culture, but who have certain ethnic,
occupational or physical characteristics not common to the larger culture
Assimilation or acculturation
- correct answer • When a minority culture group lives within a larger dominant group and some loss of
cultural characteristics may occur with values being replaced by the values of the dominant culture
ETHNICITY
- correct answer A sense of identification with a collective cultural group based on the group's common
heritage • Happens through birth or adoption of characteristics of the group • An ethnic group shares
unique cultural and societal beliefs and behavior patterns
