Deck 20: Spirituality in Health Care

Question 1

Which of the following may be regarded as the driving force that pervades all aspects of and gives meaning to an individual's life?
1) Holism
2) Religion
3) Morality
4) Spirituality

Answer 1

4

Question 2

Which of the following cannot exist without consideration of the spiritual aspects that create individuality and give meaning to people's lives?
1) Holism
2) Religion
3) Morality
4) Mysticism

Answer 2

1

Question 3

Religious traditions of India and other Eastern cultures teach that the human energy system contains seven energy centers, or chakras. The root chakra is located in which part of the body, and its energy has to do with the material world?
1) Head
2) Chest
3) Perineum
4) Spine

Answer 3

3

Question 4

In the context of a person's spiritual growth and development, a series of four developmental stages have been proposed for human spirituality. Which stage has an emphasis on rationality, materialism, and humaneness?
1) The chaotic stage
2) The formal stage
3) The skeptic stage
4) The mystical stage

Question 5

Which principle is centered on humans and looks to science and rational thought as a way to understand the world?
1) Holism
2) Buddhism
3) Hinduism
4) Secularism

Question 6

Second-person and third-party praying, also identified as which of the following, is a type of prayer used by those who pray to saints to intercede with God on their behalf?
1) Communion prayer
2) Supplication prayer
3) Intercessory prayer
4) Prayer of agreement

Question 7

Which emotion is a way of living that is born out of an awareness of one's relationship to all living creatures, a sensitivity to the pain and brokenness of others?
1) Empathy
2) Sympathy
3) Compassion
4) Kindness

Question 8

Which of the following, as an institutionally based organized system of beliefs, represents only one specific means of spiritual expression?
1) Holism
2) Religion
3) Morality
4) Spirituality

Question 9

Rather than viewing the world as sets of objects that bump into or interact with each other, which type of philosophy believes that the experiences of persons should be explored through the gathering of conscious experience rather than just objective data?
1) Theology
2) Deontology
3) Phenomenology
4) Epistemology

Question 10

Nurses who spend much of their time working with clients who are near death, such as which type of nurses, are most likely to have witnessed the experience of deathbed visions and gained a glimpse of a different realm of reality?
1) Parish nurses
2) Hospice nurses
3) Holistic nurses
4) Critical care nurses

Question 11

Which of the following is an example of a therapy that capitalizes on knowledge of the soul and the movement of a divinely generated energy?
1) Acupuncture
2) Aromatherapy
3) Therapeutic touch
4) Interactive imagery

Question 12

The nocebo effect creates a difficult ethical dilemma for the nurse, who is caught between the obligation of which ethical principle and the obligation of informed consent?
1) Justice
2) Autonomy
3) Beneficence
4) Nonmaleficence

Question 13

Any disruption in the life principle that pervades a person's entire being and that integrates and transcends one's biological and psychosocial nature can be considered and recognized as which nursing diagnosis?
1) Mental distress
2) Physical distress
3) Spiritual distress
4) Emotional distress

Question 14

The ability of people to participate in their own healing through prayer or meditation may use a source of healing power referred to as which of the following?
1) Spiritual wellness
2) Holistic wellness
3) Religious wellness
4) Remembered wellness

Question 15

Telling a patient that chemotherapy will drain his or her energy and cause more of his or her hair to fall out is one example of which of the following?
1) Nocebo effect
2) Placebo effect
3) Direct effect
4) Indirect effect