Living with Disability

Question 1

Problems with human functioning are categorized in three overlapping domains:

Answer 1

• Impairments
• Activity limitations
• Participation restrictions

Question 2

Disability is

Answer 2

refer to the negative aspects of the interaction between an individual (with a health condition) and that individual’s contextual factors (environmental and personal factors)

Question 3

Disability is a human rights issues related to:

Answer 3

• Experience inequities
• Denial of autonomy (confining to institutions, involuntary sterilization, regarded as incompetent)
• Subject to violations of dignity (violence, abuse)

Question 4

2 main models to understand disability:

Answer 4

• Medical model

- Social model

Question 5

Medical model of disability:

Answer 5

• Focused on the individual

- Focused on disability

Question 6

Social nodel of disability:

Answer 6

• Focused on society’s barriers
• Focused on person
• Expert on their requirements

Question 7

Ableism is

Answer 7

refer to discrimination and social prejudice against people with disabilities. (Also know as anapirophobia, anaprirism, and disability discrimination)

Question 8

Common types of negative encounters: toward people living with disability :

Answer 8

• Ignoring/minimizing their knowledge
• Detached interpersonal interactions
• Placing a negative skew on their quality of life
• Power differential
• Lack of HCP knowledge and difficulty taking them holistically
• Assumption of asexuality and childlessness

Question 9

Disability-related competencies needed as nurses: Langage and communication

Answer 9

• Address the person and ask about his/her preferred method to communication.
• Be aware of and use preferred vocabulary regarding disability
• Use alternative interviewing strategies (yes/no instead of open-ended questioning) to facilitate communication
• Avoid assumptons about cognitive or intellectual limitations based on physical disabilities.
• Use alternative communication strategies
• Understand alternative communication methods (eg. for phone communication with patient who are deaf)

Question 10

One conceptual framework through which disability-related content and experiences can be understood by nurses and use as an approach to the individual who has a disability:

Answer 10

Cultural competency

Question 11

Vulnerability factors for people living with disability

Answer 11

-low-paying work
-twice likely to be unemployed
-barriers to breast, colon and cervical cancer screening
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