PRE LIM QUIZ 2

Question 1

Giger and Davidhizar’s transcultural assessment model focuses on the six phenomena they believe shapes care:
Select the correct response:

• Communication, space, social organization, time, environment control and biologic variations
• Communication, space, social organization, time, care and thought
• Communication, space, social organization, time, care and instruction
• Social organization, time, environment control, biologic variations, instruction and sociological variations

Answer 1

Communication, space, social organization, time, environment control and biologic variations

Question 2

Immigration and birth rate statistics suggest that cross-cultural encounters between and among patients and healthcare workers are expected to:
Select the correct response:
* decrease
* stay about the same
* increase slightly
* increase greatly

Answer 2

• increase greatly

Question 3

Question 3 of 15
1 Point

Which one of the following nursing actions is most likely to reduce a patients anxiety and enhance the patient’s personal security as it relates to the concept of personalspace needs?
Select the correct response:
* Providing explanations when performing tasks
* Making eye contact as much as possible
* Touching the patient before and during procedures
* Reducing the need for the patient to make decisions

Answer 3

• Providing explanations when performing tasks

Question 4

Question 4 of 15
1 Point

A nurse is preparing a plan of care for a client who is a Jehovah’s Witness. The client has been told that the surgery is necessary. The nurse considers the client’s religious preferences in developing the plan of care and documents that:
Select the correct response:
* Surgery is strictly prohibited
* Blood products can not be administered
* Giving any medication is not allowed
* Alternative medicines can be advised

Answer 4

• Blood products can not be administered

Question 5

Question 5 of 15
1 Point

Members of the LGBT population sometimes avoid seeking medical care because:
Select the correct response:
* they discriminate against non-LBGT healthcare workers
* they tend to be healthier than members of the general population
* they believe in and practice homeopathic healthcare
* of insensitivity and discrimination among some healthcare workers

Answer 5

• of insensitivity and discrimination among some healthcare workers

Question 6

Question 6 of 15
1 Point

_______________is the way by which culture is transmitted and preserved:
Select the correct response:
* Communication
* Gestures
* Lessons in school
* Media

Answer 6

• Communication

Question 7

Question 7 of 15
1 Point

Mr. Johansen, born in Sweden, is fair-skinned, blond, and blue-eyed and has little body hair. Mr. Stavros, born in Greece, is olive-skinned, has dark brown hair and eyes, and has thick, dark body hair. This is an example of:
Select the correct response:
* Biological variations in racial groups.
* Environmental control of culture.
* Social organization of a culture.
* Variation in space orientation of a culture

Answer 7

• Biological variations in racial groups.

Question 8

Question 8 of 15
1 Point

Homosexuality is:
Select the correct response:
* a mental illness
* an expression of cultural pain
* a treatable medical condition
* a type of sexual identity.

Answer 8

• a type of sexual identity.

Question 9

Question 9 of 15
1 Point

The nurse is admitting a 40-year-old female patient who newly emigrated from Mexico. The patient has hypertension. As this is the initial visit to the clinic, the best approach to assess what, if any, folk medicine the patient may have used is for the nurse to ask:
Select the correct response:
* “Would you like to keep wearing that garlic necklace while you are in the hospital?”
* “Have you been using herbs to treat your illness?”
* “What have you been doing to treat your symptoms?”
* “Have you been using any remedies that come from Mexico?”

Question 10

Question 10 of 15
1 Point

The nurse is providing instructions to a Chinese-American client about the frequency and dosages of the take home medicines. When conducting the teaching, the client continuously turns away from the nurse. The nurse should do which of the following appropriate action?
Select the correct response:
* Walk around the client so that the nurse can constantly face the client.
* Continue with the instructions, then confirming client’s understanding.
* Call the attention of the client by speaking loudly.
* Hand over a written instruction and discuss only what the client doesn’t understand

Answer 10

• Continue with the instructions, then confirming client’s understanding.

Question 11

Question 11 of 15
1 Point

A clinic nurse is preparing to examine a Hispanic child who was brought by the mother for his first physical check-up. While assessing the child, the nurse would avoid doing which of the following?
Select the correct response:
* Having an interpreter if necessary
* Admiring the child
* Asking the mother questions about the child
* Weighing the client

Answer 11

• Admiring the child

Question 12

Question 12 of 15
1 Point

An American nurse tries to speak with a Korean client who cannot understand the English language. To effectively communicate to a client with a different language, which of the following should the nurse implement?
Select the correct response:
* Speak to the client and family together.
* Have an interpreter to translate.
* Speak loudly and closely to the client.
* Speak slowly.

Answer 12

• Have an interpreter to translate.

Question 13

Question 13 of 15
1 Point

Often, the motivation for __________ is the search for a better life or as a way out of poverty.
Select the correct response:
* Immigration
* Moving
* Bi-culturism
* Crime

Answer 13

Immigration

Question 14

Question 14 of 15
1 Point

The nurse suspects that the client has nontraditional health beliefs and often uses nontraditional remedies to treat various illnesses. What is the best approach for obtaining this information from the client?
Select the correct response:
* “You haven’t been eating any of those funny herbs your people use, have you?”
* “What are your favorite foods?”
* “Would you like to keep wearing that gold cross while you are in the hospital?”
* “Have you been taking any remedies that your family taught you to use?”

Answer 14

• “Have you been taking any remedies that your family taught you to use?”

Question 15

Question 15 of 15
1 Point

Quality care is not possible if the provider lacks sensitivity to the patient’s _________.
Select the correct response:
* Complaints
* Culture
* Ethnicity
* Insurance situation

Answer 15

culture