NUR 106 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT RATED
A+
Empathy
a. Projecting personal emotional reactions onto the patient during care delivery
b. Identifying with the way another person feels; being sensitive to the client's
feelings and problems while remaining objective enough to help them attain a
positive outcome ✔✔
c. Experiencing identical physical and psychological symptoms as the client
d. Feeling pity or sorrow for a patient's circumstances while taking over their
decision-making
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.) ✔✔
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Sympathy
a. Understanding a patient's emotional perspective while maintaining professional
boundaries
b. Shifts the emphasis from the patient to the nurse when the nurse shows personal
feelings or concerns, which get projected onto the patient and limit the ability to
focus on the patient's needs ✔✔
c. The therapeutic technique of actively reflecting a client's spoken words without
bias
d. Demonstrating total neutrality and detachment during patient encounters
Answer: Shifts the emphasis from the patient to the nurse when the nurse shows
personal feelings 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!] -ANSWER ✔✔Can support abusive or destructive
behavior ◦Can encourage dependence on the caregiver
ENABLING - Positive [promote!!] -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 -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 -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 -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
ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT RATED
A+
Empathy
a. Projecting personal emotional reactions onto the patient during care delivery
b. Identifying with the way another person feels; being sensitive to the client's
feelings and problems while remaining objective enough to help them attain a
positive outcome ✔✔
c. Experiencing identical physical and psychological symptoms as the client
d. Feeling pity or sorrow for a patient's circumstances while taking over their
decision-making
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.) ✔✔
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Sympathy
a. Understanding a patient's emotional perspective while maintaining professional
boundaries
b. Shifts the emphasis from the patient to the nurse when the nurse shows personal
feelings or concerns, which get projected onto the patient and limit the ability to
focus on the patient's needs ✔✔
c. The therapeutic technique of actively reflecting a client's spoken words without
bias
d. Demonstrating total neutrality and detachment during patient encounters
Answer: Shifts the emphasis from the patient to the nurse when the nurse shows
personal feelings 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!] -ANSWER ✔✔Can support abusive or destructive
behavior ◦Can encourage dependence on the caregiver
ENABLING - Positive [promote!!] -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 -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 -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 -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
