Chapter 6 Flashcards
Culture varies from patient to patient. Why is it important that the nurse understand and accept each person as an individual?
a. To develop a plan of care
b. To provide holistic care
c. To identify differences
d. To support each patient
b. To provide holistic care
What is a fixed concept that describes how all members of an ethnic group act or think?
a. Variations within a cultural group
b. Identical practices
c. Holistic nursing
d. Ethnic stereotypes
d. Ethnic stereotypes
All nurses should work to provide culturally appropriate nursing care. What is the integration of cultural knowledge into all aspects of care?
a. Cultural competence
b. Transcultural nursing
c. Nursing process
d. Team nursing
b. Transcultural nursing
What is the term for when members of a particular ethnic group believe that their beliefs and practices are the best?
a. Prejudice
b. Separatism
c. Ethnocentrism
d. Bias
c. Ethnocentrism
What is the term used to describe cultures in which women make decisions about health care and provide the care and discipline to the children?
a. Biological
b. Matriarchal
c. Cultural
d. Patriarchal
b. Matriarchal
What basic philosophy in the United States is relevant to health care?
a. Folk remedies
b. Biomedical therapy
c. Holistic therapy
d. Spiritual intervention
b. Biomedical therapy
What is a set of learned values, beliefs, customs, and practices shared by a group ?
a. Race
b. Ethnicity
c. Culture
d. Religion
c. Culture
A nurse is American-born and works in a large hospital with patients from many cultures. What must this nurse develop to provide the best care?
a. Another language
b. Assessment skills
c. Cultural competence
d. Care planning ability
c. Cultural competence
The nurse from New York City is caring for a patient from Atlanta, Georgia. What difference between the nurse and patient may cause them to experience difficulty in communicating?
a. Race
b. Subculture
c. Ethnic group
d. Culture
b. Subculture
The father of an American Indian has just died. What should the nurse do immediately after death?
a. Provide privacy so that the family may touch and kiss the deceased goodbye
b. Ask about providing help with the death ceremony
c. Carefully wrap the deceased’s clothing for the family to take home
d. Mention the deceased by name frequently
b. Ask about providing help with the death ceremony
What is the term for a generalization about a form of behavior, an individual, or a group? a. Dialect
b. Religion
c. Ethnicity
d. Stereotype
d. Stereotype
What is the term for a group of people who share biological physical characteristics?
a. Race
b. Culture
c. Religion
d. Social organization
a. Race
What is the term for a group of people who share a common social and cultural heritage based on shared traditions, national origin, and physical and biological characteristics?
a. Race
b. Culture
c. Religion
d. Ethnicity
d. Ethnicity
A nurse is caring for a neonate born to observant Orthodox Jewish parents. Who can the nurse anticipate will name the neonate?
a. Father
b. Mother
c. Grandfather
d. Grandmother
a. Father
A nurse is caring for a male neonate born to observant Orthodox Jewish parents. Who will the nurse anticipate will circumcise the neonate?
a. A bishop
b. A mohel
c. His father
d. His health care provider
b. A mohel