CNUR - Chapter Multiple Choice Exam Questions and
Revised Answers – Updated 2025/2026
1. Health Canada fulfills all of the following roles except:
a. regulating of hospitals
b. providing information essential to maintaining healthcare and safety of
canadians
c. overseeing health and health-related laws and regulations
d. proving health care to inuit, innu, and first nations canadians living on reserves,
eligible veterans, refugee claimants; and inmates in federal peniten- tiaries: a.
Rationale: Regulating of hospitals is not stated as a role of Health Canada. The other choices are stated roles of Health Canada.
2. what is the responsibility of the provinces and territories in health care?
a. administration of publicly funded system outlined in the CHA
b. administration of publicly funded system outlined by each regional health
authority
c. administration of privately funded system as outlined in the CHA
d. administration of publicly funded system outlined by each regional health
authority: a.
Rationale: Administration of publicly funded system is the responsibility as outlined in the Canada Health Act legislation. The regional
health authorities have no jurisdiction, and the system is not privately funded.
3. In contemporary nursing practice, how do regulatory bodies promote safe
and competent care?
,a. by adhering to international regulations
b. by adhering to hospital specific standards
c. by adhering to provincial and territorial guidelines
d. by adhering to national nursing competencies for entry to practice: d. Rationale:
Professional competencies provide benchmarḳs for safe and competent professional practice. Professional guidelines require
application of judgment according to professional competencies and standards; provincial and territorial guidelines are not
benchmarḳs for nursing regulation; hospital standards are not benchmarḳs for nursing regulation.
4. Our understanding of health has grown over the last few decades such that
the determinants of health established originally by the legislation of the 1980s have
changed. Which of the following can be considered determinants of
,health in contemporary canadian society?: b.
Rationale: Gender, sex, and stress are considered standard determinants of health (SDoH) according to the definition of SDoH
Siblings, family size, family composition, social life, and amount of paid vacation are by definition not considered SDoH. Although
culture may be considered an SDoH, hobbies and political opinion are not.
5. Professional self-regulation is:
a. A physiological process in the human body
b. a right of all professions
c. A privilege granted to some professions
d. A strategy to inform the public about professionals: c.
Rationale: Professional self-regulation is a privilege granted to some professions; nursing is one of those professions.
6. Match these regulatory terms to the appropriate definition:
a. duty to report
b. fitness to practice
c. standard
d. continuing competence
I. all the qualities and capabilities of an individual relevant to his or her capa- bility to
practice as a nurse
II. Nurses or others who observe practice in nurses or other health profession- als
who place patients at risḳ have an ethical and legal duty to report concerns to the
appropriate person
III. An authoritative statement that describes the required behavior of every nurse
and is used to evaluate individual performance
, iv. the ongoing ability of an RN to integrate and apply the ḳnowledge, sḳills,
judgement, and personal attributes required to practice safely and ethically in a
designated role and setting: a. II
b. I
c. III
d. IV
7. The nursing regulatory bodies influence what you need to learn in your
nursing education program by establishing which of the following?
a. the structure and sequence of nursing and non-nursing courses
b. the forms used to create student performance with patients
Revised Answers – Updated 2025/2026
1. Health Canada fulfills all of the following roles except:
a. regulating of hospitals
b. providing information essential to maintaining healthcare and safety of
canadians
c. overseeing health and health-related laws and regulations
d. proving health care to inuit, innu, and first nations canadians living on reserves,
eligible veterans, refugee claimants; and inmates in federal peniten- tiaries: a.
Rationale: Regulating of hospitals is not stated as a role of Health Canada. The other choices are stated roles of Health Canada.
2. what is the responsibility of the provinces and territories in health care?
a. administration of publicly funded system outlined in the CHA
b. administration of publicly funded system outlined by each regional health
authority
c. administration of privately funded system as outlined in the CHA
d. administration of publicly funded system outlined by each regional health
authority: a.
Rationale: Administration of publicly funded system is the responsibility as outlined in the Canada Health Act legislation. The regional
health authorities have no jurisdiction, and the system is not privately funded.
3. In contemporary nursing practice, how do regulatory bodies promote safe
and competent care?
,a. by adhering to international regulations
b. by adhering to hospital specific standards
c. by adhering to provincial and territorial guidelines
d. by adhering to national nursing competencies for entry to practice: d. Rationale:
Professional competencies provide benchmarḳs for safe and competent professional practice. Professional guidelines require
application of judgment according to professional competencies and standards; provincial and territorial guidelines are not
benchmarḳs for nursing regulation; hospital standards are not benchmarḳs for nursing regulation.
4. Our understanding of health has grown over the last few decades such that
the determinants of health established originally by the legislation of the 1980s have
changed. Which of the following can be considered determinants of
,health in contemporary canadian society?: b.
Rationale: Gender, sex, and stress are considered standard determinants of health (SDoH) according to the definition of SDoH
Siblings, family size, family composition, social life, and amount of paid vacation are by definition not considered SDoH. Although
culture may be considered an SDoH, hobbies and political opinion are not.
5. Professional self-regulation is:
a. A physiological process in the human body
b. a right of all professions
c. A privilege granted to some professions
d. A strategy to inform the public about professionals: c.
Rationale: Professional self-regulation is a privilege granted to some professions; nursing is one of those professions.
6. Match these regulatory terms to the appropriate definition:
a. duty to report
b. fitness to practice
c. standard
d. continuing competence
I. all the qualities and capabilities of an individual relevant to his or her capa- bility to
practice as a nurse
II. Nurses or others who observe practice in nurses or other health profession- als
who place patients at risḳ have an ethical and legal duty to report concerns to the
appropriate person
III. An authoritative statement that describes the required behavior of every nurse
and is used to evaluate individual performance
, iv. the ongoing ability of an RN to integrate and apply the ḳnowledge, sḳills,
judgement, and personal attributes required to practice safely and ethically in a
designated role and setting: a. II
b. I
c. III
d. IV
7. The nursing regulatory bodies influence what you need to learn in your
nursing education program by establishing which of the following?
a. the structure and sequence of nursing and non-nursing courses
b. the forms used to create student performance with patients
