NURS 373 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | NURS
373 FINAL STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE TEST 2026/2027
What is social determinants of health? - correct answer ✔✔- The living and working conditions are
primary factors that shape the health of Canadians
- Canada has contributed to this concept extensively and is recognized internationally
What is our health shaped by? - correct answer ✔✔- How income & wealth is distributed
- If we are employed & those working conditions
- Our ability obtain education, food, housing etc
What are the 17 social determinants of health? - correct answer ✔✔- Disability
- Early child development
- Education
- Employment & working conditions
- Food insecurity
- Gender
- Geography
- Globalization
- Health services
- Housing
- Immigration
- Income & income distribution
- Indigenous ancestry
- Race
- Social exclusion
- Social safety net
- Unemployment & job security
What is resiliency? - correct answer ✔✔The ability to bounce back
"Process of adapting well in the face in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or even significant
sources of stress - such as family and relationships problems, serious health problems, or workplace and
financial stressors. It means 'bouncing back' from difficult experiences"
- Includes the idea of emerging even stronger than before and experience personal growth
What are the contributing factors for developing resilience? - correct answer ✔✔- Primary factor
includes having caring and supportive relationships within and outside the family
Additional protective factors include:
- Having the capacity to make realistic plans & carry them out
- Positive self-regard and confidence in personal abilities
- Good communication and problem solving skills
,- Ability to effectively manage strong feelings and emotions
What are protective factors? - correct answer ✔✔Allows individuals to be able to feel more resilient
- Helps increase relationships that will strengthen resilience in families
What are the four interventions that the beliefs and illness model consist of? - correct answer ✔✔1.
Creating a context for changing beliefs
2. Distinguishing illness beliefs
3. Challenging constraining beliefs
4. Strengthening facilitating beliefs
What are beliefs determined by? (3) - correct answer ✔✔- Bio-psychosocial-spiritual make-up
- Unique genetic make-up
- History of interactions
What are core beliefs? - correct answer ✔✔- Beliefs are fundamental to how we approach the world -
they dictate how we live
- Beliefs form our IDENTITY
- CORE beliefs are very personal and often invisible
- Truth and certainty are the hallmark of a core belief
- Such beliefs results in the development of rules that dictate behaviour
- Core beliefs have a profound influence on the family system and its functioning
- Core beliefs are influential in how family members cope and/or suffer with illness
What are beliefs? - correct answer ✔✔Heart of healing
What are constraining beliefs? - correct answer ✔✔- Decrease the possibility for discovery of solutions
or resolutions to challenges
- Increase illness suffering
- Decreases the possibilities for resolutions to challenges
What are facilitating beliefs? - correct answer ✔✔- Increase solution possibilities
- Decrease illness suffering and invite healing
What is composed in the circle of intersection of beliefs? - correct answer ✔✔- Beliefs of family
members
- Beliefs of patient
- Beliefs of HCP
How to distinguish illness beliefs? - correct answer ✔✔Invite, listen, and be witness to illness narratives
Exploring beliefs surrounding:
- Illness suffering
- Diagnosis, etiology, prognosis
- Healing and treatment
- Mastery, control, and influence
- Religion/spirituality
, - The place of illness in lives and relationships
Explain empathy and sympathy. - correct answer ✔✔- Empathy fuels connection (choice)
- Sympathy drives connection
What are the four qualities of empathy? - correct answer ✔✔1. Perspective taking
2. Staying out of judgement
3. Recognizing emotion in others
4. Communicating that
What is pediatric palliative care? - correct answer ✔✔Prevents, identifies and treats suffering in children
with serious illnesses, their families, and the teams that care for them. It is appropriate at any stage of
the illness, and can be provided together with disease-directed treatment
- NOT limited to end-of-life care
- Supportive care that is built in at the initiation of any tx plan
- Can and should be integrated early with curative care
What are patient populations that should be considered during palliative care? - correct answer ✔✔-
Oncology
- Cardiac
- Cystic fibrosis
- Cerebral palsy
- Muscular palsy
- Neonatal population-prematurity
- Congenital anomalies
- Renal disease
What is symptom management for patients with palliative care? - correct answer ✔✔- Pain
- Fatigue
- Nausea & vomiting
- Dysphagia, xerostomia, & hiccups
- Bowel management (constipation)
- Dyspnea, cough
- Urinary tract disorders
- Skin
- Neurological disturbances
- Anxiety & depression
- Delirium
What are the roles of the family for a patient with palliative care? - correct answer ✔✔- "The family is
the patient"
- Siblings ~ development based
- Parents ~ marital relationship
- Solidarity of nuclear family prior to illness
- Grandparents
- Other extended family, friends, supports
373 FINAL STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE TEST 2026/2027
What is social determinants of health? - correct answer ✔✔- The living and working conditions are
primary factors that shape the health of Canadians
- Canada has contributed to this concept extensively and is recognized internationally
What is our health shaped by? - correct answer ✔✔- How income & wealth is distributed
- If we are employed & those working conditions
- Our ability obtain education, food, housing etc
What are the 17 social determinants of health? - correct answer ✔✔- Disability
- Early child development
- Education
- Employment & working conditions
- Food insecurity
- Gender
- Geography
- Globalization
- Health services
- Housing
- Immigration
- Income & income distribution
- Indigenous ancestry
- Race
- Social exclusion
- Social safety net
- Unemployment & job security
What is resiliency? - correct answer ✔✔The ability to bounce back
"Process of adapting well in the face in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or even significant
sources of stress - such as family and relationships problems, serious health problems, or workplace and
financial stressors. It means 'bouncing back' from difficult experiences"
- Includes the idea of emerging even stronger than before and experience personal growth
What are the contributing factors for developing resilience? - correct answer ✔✔- Primary factor
includes having caring and supportive relationships within and outside the family
Additional protective factors include:
- Having the capacity to make realistic plans & carry them out
- Positive self-regard and confidence in personal abilities
- Good communication and problem solving skills
,- Ability to effectively manage strong feelings and emotions
What are protective factors? - correct answer ✔✔Allows individuals to be able to feel more resilient
- Helps increase relationships that will strengthen resilience in families
What are the four interventions that the beliefs and illness model consist of? - correct answer ✔✔1.
Creating a context for changing beliefs
2. Distinguishing illness beliefs
3. Challenging constraining beliefs
4. Strengthening facilitating beliefs
What are beliefs determined by? (3) - correct answer ✔✔- Bio-psychosocial-spiritual make-up
- Unique genetic make-up
- History of interactions
What are core beliefs? - correct answer ✔✔- Beliefs are fundamental to how we approach the world -
they dictate how we live
- Beliefs form our IDENTITY
- CORE beliefs are very personal and often invisible
- Truth and certainty are the hallmark of a core belief
- Such beliefs results in the development of rules that dictate behaviour
- Core beliefs have a profound influence on the family system and its functioning
- Core beliefs are influential in how family members cope and/or suffer with illness
What are beliefs? - correct answer ✔✔Heart of healing
What are constraining beliefs? - correct answer ✔✔- Decrease the possibility for discovery of solutions
or resolutions to challenges
- Increase illness suffering
- Decreases the possibilities for resolutions to challenges
What are facilitating beliefs? - correct answer ✔✔- Increase solution possibilities
- Decrease illness suffering and invite healing
What is composed in the circle of intersection of beliefs? - correct answer ✔✔- Beliefs of family
members
- Beliefs of patient
- Beliefs of HCP
How to distinguish illness beliefs? - correct answer ✔✔Invite, listen, and be witness to illness narratives
Exploring beliefs surrounding:
- Illness suffering
- Diagnosis, etiology, prognosis
- Healing and treatment
- Mastery, control, and influence
- Religion/spirituality
, - The place of illness in lives and relationships
Explain empathy and sympathy. - correct answer ✔✔- Empathy fuels connection (choice)
- Sympathy drives connection
What are the four qualities of empathy? - correct answer ✔✔1. Perspective taking
2. Staying out of judgement
3. Recognizing emotion in others
4. Communicating that
What is pediatric palliative care? - correct answer ✔✔Prevents, identifies and treats suffering in children
with serious illnesses, their families, and the teams that care for them. It is appropriate at any stage of
the illness, and can be provided together with disease-directed treatment
- NOT limited to end-of-life care
- Supportive care that is built in at the initiation of any tx plan
- Can and should be integrated early with curative care
What are patient populations that should be considered during palliative care? - correct answer ✔✔-
Oncology
- Cardiac
- Cystic fibrosis
- Cerebral palsy
- Muscular palsy
- Neonatal population-prematurity
- Congenital anomalies
- Renal disease
What is symptom management for patients with palliative care? - correct answer ✔✔- Pain
- Fatigue
- Nausea & vomiting
- Dysphagia, xerostomia, & hiccups
- Bowel management (constipation)
- Dyspnea, cough
- Urinary tract disorders
- Skin
- Neurological disturbances
- Anxiety & depression
- Delirium
What are the roles of the family for a patient with palliative care? - correct answer ✔✔- "The family is
the patient"
- Siblings ~ development based
- Parents ~ marital relationship
- Solidarity of nuclear family prior to illness
- Grandparents
- Other extended family, friends, supports
