NURS 3510 Midterm Exam with All
Correct Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
Why Should We Address the Whole Person? - Answer To maintain our patients' dignity -
dignity is associated with quality of life
What is Dignity? - Answer Inherent to all of us
Highly individualized
Common elements:
Feeling valued and important - self-worth; State of physical, emotional, social, and spiritual
comfort
What Impacts Dignity? - Answer Nature and quality of interaction with others
Illness-related concerns
Personal perspectives and practices to conserve dignity
Getting to Know the Whole Person - Answer Formal assessment tools
Observation - person, interactions, environment
Conversation - with patient, family, healthcare team
Ask open-ended questions, Talk about things other than illness, Biographical approaches,
Storytelling and story sharing
Unhelpful Assessment Techniques - Answer Focusing on only one domain
Using inappropriate or technical language
Changing the subject or interrupting
Jumping to conclusions
, Asking leading questions that suggest right answers
Assessing Physical Domain - Answer Understand diagnosis and treatments
Head-to-toe assessment
Symptom assessment
Assessing Emotional Drain - Answer Anxiety/fear, Sadness, Anger/irritability, Positive
motivation, Burden, Disengagement/withdrawal, Coping
Assessing Social Domain - Answer Relationships, Ability to engage in leisure activities, Ability
to perform household chores, Ability to perform ADLs, Living accommodations, Ability to work
Caregiving role
Assessing Spiritual Domain - Answer Sources of help or support, Beliefs and spirituality,
Source of hope, Meaning in life
Personhood - Answer Respect that each patient is an individual person - personhood!
When we ignore expressions of personhood, dignity can be compromised
When we promote expressions of personhood, dignity can be upheld
Factors that Influence Illness Experience - Answer Disease-focused vs. whole-person
approach to care, Available health services, Education and literacy, Physical environment, Social
support networks, Personal health practices and coping skills, Social environments, Culture,
Employment/working conditions, Financial and social status, Age
Taking Care Of vs. Caring For - Answer Taking Care Of = "emphasizes objective, professional
care, such as the medical and psychological aspects of nursing."
Caring For = "a humanistic way of interacting with patients that demonstrates sincere care and
concern for patients simply because they are human beings."
Why Should I Care About Caring? - Answer Nurse:
Correct Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
Why Should We Address the Whole Person? - Answer To maintain our patients' dignity -
dignity is associated with quality of life
What is Dignity? - Answer Inherent to all of us
Highly individualized
Common elements:
Feeling valued and important - self-worth; State of physical, emotional, social, and spiritual
comfort
What Impacts Dignity? - Answer Nature and quality of interaction with others
Illness-related concerns
Personal perspectives and practices to conserve dignity
Getting to Know the Whole Person - Answer Formal assessment tools
Observation - person, interactions, environment
Conversation - with patient, family, healthcare team
Ask open-ended questions, Talk about things other than illness, Biographical approaches,
Storytelling and story sharing
Unhelpful Assessment Techniques - Answer Focusing on only one domain
Using inappropriate or technical language
Changing the subject or interrupting
Jumping to conclusions
, Asking leading questions that suggest right answers
Assessing Physical Domain - Answer Understand diagnosis and treatments
Head-to-toe assessment
Symptom assessment
Assessing Emotional Drain - Answer Anxiety/fear, Sadness, Anger/irritability, Positive
motivation, Burden, Disengagement/withdrawal, Coping
Assessing Social Domain - Answer Relationships, Ability to engage in leisure activities, Ability
to perform household chores, Ability to perform ADLs, Living accommodations, Ability to work
Caregiving role
Assessing Spiritual Domain - Answer Sources of help or support, Beliefs and spirituality,
Source of hope, Meaning in life
Personhood - Answer Respect that each patient is an individual person - personhood!
When we ignore expressions of personhood, dignity can be compromised
When we promote expressions of personhood, dignity can be upheld
Factors that Influence Illness Experience - Answer Disease-focused vs. whole-person
approach to care, Available health services, Education and literacy, Physical environment, Social
support networks, Personal health practices and coping skills, Social environments, Culture,
Employment/working conditions, Financial and social status, Age
Taking Care Of vs. Caring For - Answer Taking Care Of = "emphasizes objective, professional
care, such as the medical and psychological aspects of nursing."
Caring For = "a humanistic way of interacting with patients that demonstrates sincere care and
concern for patients simply because they are human beings."
Why Should I Care About Caring? - Answer Nurse:
