NURS4516 Professional Practice & Legal-
Ethical Nursing Comprehensive Exam
Questions & Answers 2025/2026 graded
A+
What does Becker's Health Belief Model suggest?
An individual's likelihood of taking recommended
preventative health actions is influenced by their
perceptions of susceptibility to and seriousness of a
disease.
How can a person increase their likelihood chance of
action through the Becker Health Belief Model
A persons perception> can be changed through cues to
action s/a effective external advice which is a modifying
action> which increases likelihood chance of action
through the reward
Giger and Davidhizar coined the term _______? This
involved HMC.
-transcultural nursing involving state of health, marital
status, number of children.
-transcultural nursing has moral issues with regards
to ______?
Unmarried pregnant
transcultural nursing has ethical issues with regards
to ______?
Pain control measures/truth telling/End of life
Racism SDOH's problems
,+Anti-black Racism
+Institutionalized Racism (Service's racism)
+Structural Racism (Rules Racism)
Honourable Murray Sinclair states that
Systems themselves can be racist without the people
within them being racist
Joyce's Principle
Equitible access of indigenous people
Jordan's Principle
First Nations children receive equitable access
Cultural safety
environment free of racism and discrimination, where
people feel safe
Cultural humility
humbly acknowledging oneself as a learner when it comes
to understanding another's experience.
High Communication
Listener knows basic info already
Low Communication
•Listener knows very little
High context communication can be?
•Linear - Monochromic time - North America
•Circular - Polychromic time - Other parts of the world
Emotional Expression can be?
formal/Informal
Bi-directional conversation
information flows from both parties
Indigenous Health and Canadian Health Care
problems
- has perceptions of invisibility
- has societal norms of being poor addicts
,-structural factors of being under-resourced
-sexism
Areas of Cultural Knowledge involves
•Generic
•Specific
•Holding knowledge to understand patterns vs stereotypes
Cultural Resources
Understanding and developing resources is critical
at an Individual and Organizational level
•Leiningers three modes of nursing action and
decisions
•Culture Care Validation/Preservation
•Cultural Care Accommodation/Negotiation
•Cultural Care Reframing/Repatterning
Will nurses be able to prescribe at entry level nursing ? -
100 correct answer as-no, more education is
required
prescribing - 100 correct answer as-the act of writing
an order for a procedure, treatment, drug, etc
directive - 100 correct answer as-a type of written
order that enables nurses to perform an activity or
intervention
how can you tell if you are performing the controlled act of
psychotherapy ? - 100 correct answer as-You are
treating a patient
, You are applying a psychotherapy technique
You have a therapeutic relationship with the patient
The patient has a serious disorder of thought, cognition,
mood, emotional regulation, perception or memory
This disorder may seriously impair the patient's judgment,
insight, behaviour, communication or social functioning
• Nurses may perform elements of psychotherapy, but not
the controlled act of psychotherapy. For example, if only
four of the above components apply, you are not
performing the controlled act.
how can nurses increase the autonomy of practice ? -
100 correct answer as-bill 60- privatization
Civil Law - 100 correct answer as-A law that governs
relationships between individuals and defines their legal
rights.
- rights of citizens
Statutory Law - 100 correct answer as-Statutory Law
is a written law set down by a legislature (Parliament or
Provincial/Territorial Legislature.
is the nursing act civil or statutory law? - 100 correct
answer as-statutory
Common Law - 100 correct answer as-- The defining
characteristic of common law is that it arises as precedent.
Ethical Nursing Comprehensive Exam
Questions & Answers 2025/2026 graded
A+
What does Becker's Health Belief Model suggest?
An individual's likelihood of taking recommended
preventative health actions is influenced by their
perceptions of susceptibility to and seriousness of a
disease.
How can a person increase their likelihood chance of
action through the Becker Health Belief Model
A persons perception> can be changed through cues to
action s/a effective external advice which is a modifying
action> which increases likelihood chance of action
through the reward
Giger and Davidhizar coined the term _______? This
involved HMC.
-transcultural nursing involving state of health, marital
status, number of children.
-transcultural nursing has moral issues with regards
to ______?
Unmarried pregnant
transcultural nursing has ethical issues with regards
to ______?
Pain control measures/truth telling/End of life
Racism SDOH's problems
,+Anti-black Racism
+Institutionalized Racism (Service's racism)
+Structural Racism (Rules Racism)
Honourable Murray Sinclair states that
Systems themselves can be racist without the people
within them being racist
Joyce's Principle
Equitible access of indigenous people
Jordan's Principle
First Nations children receive equitable access
Cultural safety
environment free of racism and discrimination, where
people feel safe
Cultural humility
humbly acknowledging oneself as a learner when it comes
to understanding another's experience.
High Communication
Listener knows basic info already
Low Communication
•Listener knows very little
High context communication can be?
•Linear - Monochromic time - North America
•Circular - Polychromic time - Other parts of the world
Emotional Expression can be?
formal/Informal
Bi-directional conversation
information flows from both parties
Indigenous Health and Canadian Health Care
problems
- has perceptions of invisibility
- has societal norms of being poor addicts
,-structural factors of being under-resourced
-sexism
Areas of Cultural Knowledge involves
•Generic
•Specific
•Holding knowledge to understand patterns vs stereotypes
Cultural Resources
Understanding and developing resources is critical
at an Individual and Organizational level
•Leiningers three modes of nursing action and
decisions
•Culture Care Validation/Preservation
•Cultural Care Accommodation/Negotiation
•Cultural Care Reframing/Repatterning
Will nurses be able to prescribe at entry level nursing ? -
100 correct answer as-no, more education is
required
prescribing - 100 correct answer as-the act of writing
an order for a procedure, treatment, drug, etc
directive - 100 correct answer as-a type of written
order that enables nurses to perform an activity or
intervention
how can you tell if you are performing the controlled act of
psychotherapy ? - 100 correct answer as-You are
treating a patient
, You are applying a psychotherapy technique
You have a therapeutic relationship with the patient
The patient has a serious disorder of thought, cognition,
mood, emotional regulation, perception or memory
This disorder may seriously impair the patient's judgment,
insight, behaviour, communication or social functioning
• Nurses may perform elements of psychotherapy, but not
the controlled act of psychotherapy. For example, if only
four of the above components apply, you are not
performing the controlled act.
how can nurses increase the autonomy of practice ? -
100 correct answer as-bill 60- privatization
Civil Law - 100 correct answer as-A law that governs
relationships between individuals and defines their legal
rights.
- rights of citizens
Statutory Law - 100 correct answer as-Statutory Law
is a written law set down by a legislature (Parliament or
Provincial/Territorial Legislature.
is the nursing act civil or statutory law? - 100 correct
answer as-statutory
Common Law - 100 correct answer as-- The defining
characteristic of common law is that it arises as precedent.
