Ch. 2 (Cultural Assessment)

Question 1

What describes the exchanges that take place when people from two different cultures interact?

Answer 1

acculturation

Question 2

What describes the process of adopting the culture and behavior of the majority culture?

Answer 2

acculturation

Question 3

What is described as the learned and shared beliefs, values, and life ways of a group that are transmitted intergenerationlaly and influence one’s thinking and actions?

Answer 3

culture

Question 4

What are the basic characteristics of culture?

Answer 4

• learned
• shared
• adapted
• dynamic

Question 5

What are some examples of subculture?

Answer 5

• religion
• occupation
• sexual orientation

Question 6

What is the tendency to view your own way of life as the most desirable, acceptable or best and to act in a superior manner toward another culture’s way of life?

Answer 6

ethnocentrism

Question 7

What describes the tendency to impose your beliefs, values and patterns of your behavior on individuals from another culture?

Answer 7

cultural imposition

Question 8

When you’re a nurse and you are interviewing a patient with a medical interpreter, what are some important things to keep in mind?

Answer 8

• talk directly to the patient, not the interpreter
• look at the patient, not the interpreter

Question 9

What is the first step in a cultural assessment of a patient?

Answer 9

1. check on your own biases and beliefs (cultural self-assessment)

Question 10

What is one of the big questions apart of Kleinman’s Tool of Elicit Health Beliefs in Clinical encounters that should always be asked during the patient interview?

Answer 10

What do you think caused your problem? Why?

Question 11

broader term that encompasses something larger than one’s own existence with a belief in transcendence

Answer 11

spirituality

Question 12

refers to an organized system of beliefs as a shared experience that can assist in meeting one’s individual spiritual needs

Answer 12

religion

Question 13

There are three different types of disease causation theories.

What type of disease causation theory believes cause and effect can provide physical and psychological illnesses?

Answer 13

biomedical or scientific

Question 14

There are three different types of disease causation theories.

What type of disease causation theory believes in the germ theory?

Answer 14

biomedical or scientific

Question 15

There are three different types of disease causation theories.

What type of disease causation theory believes in the forces of nature and that there is balance in the universe and that health exists when there is harmony betweeen a person and their environment?

Answer 15

naturalistic or holistic

Question 16

There are three different types of disease causation theories.

What type of disease causation theory would make a patient believe their illness is caused by disharmony with the universe or forces of nature?

Answer 16

naturalistic or holistic

Question 17

There are three different types of disease causation theories.

What type of disease causation theory would make a patient believe their illness is caused by an imbalance of yin/yang?

Answer 17

naturalistic or holistic

Question 18

There are three different types of disease causation theories.

What type of disease causation theory believes supernatural forces inflict illness on humans?

Answer 18

magico-religious

Question 19

There are three different types of disease causation theories.

What type of disease causation theory would make a patient believe their illness is caused as a punishment for sins?

Answer 19

magico-religious

Question 20

There are three different types of disease causation theories.

What type of disease causation theory would make a patient believe their illness is caused by disease-bearing foreign objects and evil spirits?

Answer 20

magico-religious

Question 21

What are the three main tips when it comes to cultural diversity?

Answer 21

1. respect differences
2. ask questions
3. do not stereotype