Week 2 Exam 1 bias

Question 1

Define caring

Answer 1

Caring is displaying kindness or concern towards others.

Caring is the work or practice of looking after those unable to care for themselves, especially sick and elderly people.

Question 2

Know that you have a bias and how to address them

Question 3

Define Ethnicity-

Answer 3

Groups who share common social and cultural heritages

Question 4

What is race?

Answer 4

Race identifies someone by traits such as skin color, blood type, and bone structure.

Question 5

What is culture?

Answer 5

Culture is a concept that includes social norms, behaviors and beliefs by a group of people. It includes attitudes, beliefs, values, and customs.

Question 6

How does culture affect health?

Answer 6

-personal Values:
-Belief:
-Traditional and -Alternative Healing: Folk medicine,
-holistic healthcare
-Dealing with pain
-Seeking healthcare
-Trusting healthcare -providers and hospitals

Question 7

What is socioeconomic Status

Answer 7

Economic Instability
Unisuranced patients

Question 8

What is health literacy?

Answer 8

Can patients or do they know what they need to be healthy?

Question 9

What is cultural competence?

Answer 9

Cultural Competence is the ability to effectively incorporate culture into the provision of care, so as to show respect and accept differences in decision making.

Question 10

What is a bias?

Answer 10

Bias occurs when a person has an inclination against or in favor of something.

Question 11

What is implicit bias?

Answer 11

Implicit Bias refers to the automatic beliefs and assumptions we make based on our history, personal experiences, and exposure to social messages through things like media and entertainment.

Question 12

What is a microaggression?

Answer 12

are the everyday slights, insults, putdowns, invalidations, and offensive behaviors that people experience in daily interactions with generally well-intentioned individuals who may be unaware that they have engaged in demeaning ways.

Question 13

What is racial microinvalidations?

Answer 13

Racial microinvalidations excludes, negates,or nullifies a personof color’s reality.

Question 14

What are sterotypes?

Answer 14

a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

Question 15

Judaism: What nurse needs to know

Answer 15

Judaism: Foundation on which Christianity and Islam were built

Celebrate Yom Kippur: includes fasting
Nurse needs to consider: food, meds, insulin…ask patient.

Kosher Foods: Maybe no meat and diary, ask patient

Orthodox Jewish people do not traditionally believe in organ transplant.

Question 16

Christianity: What the nurse needs to know

Answer 16

1. Christianity: One God, Old and New Testament Bible
2. Many other denominations: Roman Catholicism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, Seventh Day Adventism
   Baptism
3. Some abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent and some abstain from alcohol. Some fast for the day.
4. Traditional Catholics maynot believe in contraception or sterilization.
5. Mormons typically prohibit alcohol, coffee, tea, and tobacco.
   7.Adventist believe in contraception among married couples and abortion may be acceptable in the case of rape or incest.

EXAM: 5. Jehovah’s Witnesses may not accept blood transfusion.

Question 17

Islam/muslim

Answer 17

Muslims may not believe in organ transplantation.May or may not accept blood transfusions.
May not eat pork.
Ramadan: Muslims traditionally fast between sunrise and sunset. Essential medications allowed during hours for most.
What about insulin? Is made from pig sometimes

Question 18

Hinduism

Answer 18

Mnay gods. May have a prayer cloth, don’t remove.

May not eat beef. Consume milk. no eggs.

Question 19

Buddhism

Answer 19

May eat vegetarian diet but may include eggs and milk.
May accept contraception – condemn abortion
May accept blood transfusions.

Question 20

Reflect and Know Yourself

Answer 20

Be a nurse who knows her bias

Question 21

Nursing Process- ADPIE

Answer 21

Physical assessment – Pain is expressed differently by everyone. Culture can affect this experience.

Question 22

Exam Questions

Answer 22

-Jehovah- no blood transfusions
-be aware of own bias
-Use an interperter- no apps, nurse friend, no phone.
-Khoser food- cant eat certain animals, pork ect.
Muslim celebrate-Ramadan- no pork