week 6: chapter 22

Question 1

Why are Aboriginal people in Canada a vulnerable population?
a. More likely to take health for granted
b. Live north of the 60th parallel
c. More likely to have adverse health outcomes
d. Live in a sensitive physical environment

Answer 1

c. More likely to have adverse health outcomes

Question 2

What was the purpose of the Northwest Coast tribes’ traditional potlatch? a. Celebration marking the transition from boyhood to manhood
b. The post-hunt community meal
c. Ceremonial welcoming of a new life into the tribe
d. Method of redistributing resources

Answer 2

d. method of redistributing resources

Question 3

What does it mean to be a status Indian?
a. Consider one’s ethnic status to be Inuit
b. Recognized Indian under the federal Indian Act and has a treaty number
c. Has mixed heritage because one parent was Aboriginal and the other non-
Aboriginal
d. Culturally an Indian, but the individual’s tribe did not sign a treaty

Answer 3

b. Recognized Indian under the federal Indian Act and has a treaty number

Question 4

What was the purpose of establishing First Nations health authorities?
a. Force the provincial governments to give up control of First Nations health care b. Allow regional health authorities to absorb First Nations health care
c. Ensure the federal government would always provide First Nations health care
d. Prepare for the transfer of control of health services to First Nations

Answer 4

d. Prepare for the transfer of control of health services to First Nations

Question 5

What disease is currently epidemic among First Nations people?
a. Breast cancer
b. Trauma
c. Diabetes
d. Smallpox

Answer 5

c. Diabetes

Question 6

What would a nurse working in a First Nations community be prepared to do? a. Be an independent care provider needing few networks or contacts
b. Work to reduce fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
c. Work with preventable conditions such as typhoid
d. Combat the effects of a long life expectancy among seniors

Answer 6

b. Work to reduce fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

Question 7

What was the purpose of the White Paper in 1969?
a. To recognize the Métis Nation of Canada
b. To set up the current reserve system
c. To abolish treaties and the Indian Act
d. To allow women who married non-Aboriginals to apply for status

Answer 7

c. To abolish treaties and the Indian Act

Question 8

A nurse is working as a program planner for the federal department responsible for managing the reserves and treaty Indians. What agency does the nurse work for?
a. Public Health Agency of Canada
b. Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development
c. First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB)
d. Health Canada

Answer 8

b. Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development

Question 9

Mrs. Crowfoot attended a residential school in northern Alberta in the 1960s. What was she likely to have experienced during this time?
a. Regular visits from her parents
b. Traditional language classes
c. High-quality education
d. Hunger

Answer 9

d. Hunger

Question 10

Spottedfawn, 55 years old, is an Aboriginal woman living on reserve in a rural northern community. She is a survivor of the residential school experience. Which of the following intergenerational issues is Spottenfawn most likely to have experienced?
a. Appropriate use of prescription medications
b. Loss of parenting skills
c. Ability to take care of nutritional needs
d. Smaller social support networks

Answer 10

b. Loss of parenting skills

Question 11

Spottedfawn, 55 years old, is an Aboriginal woman living on reserve in a rural northern community. She is a survivor of the residential school experience. Spottedfawn lives with her extended family of 10 in a small house. The adults in the home are all female. What health challenge is she most likely trying to manage?
a. Obesity
b. Breast cancer
c. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
d. Respiratory tract infection

Answer 11

a. Obesity

Question 12

Spottedfawn, 55 years old, is an Aboriginal woman living on reserve in a rural northern community. She is a survivor of the residential school experience. A nurse is working with Spottedfawn. How can the nurse enhance Spottedfawn’s experience with the health care system?
a. Affirming the client’s personal and cultural identity
b. Understanding the community’s oral history
c. Being informed of the values and norms of the community
d. Using expert nursing knowledge to select appropriate resources for the client

Answer 12

a. Affirming the client’s personal and cultural identity

Question 13

A nurse is planning a presentation on diet and diabetes to a First Nations community. What dissemination strategy would be most culturally appropriate?
a. Incorporate one’s own experiential knowledge into the information session
b. Have all pamphlets translated into the local language
c. Provide the statistics for diabetes in First Nations communities
d. Use family and community networks to share information

Answer 13

d. Use family and community networks to share information

Question 14

Mathew is a nurse working in a remote First Nations community. The client is using traditional medicine to treat a wound. Mathew is experiencing moral distress because he believes that a Western therapy is required to treat the wound. How should Mathew resolve his moral distress?
a. Ask another nurse to take on this client so that Mathew does not have to compromise his standards of practice
b. Contact the Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada for guidance
c. Transfer care to a Shaman or herbalist in keeping with the client’s belief system
d. Tell the client that Western medicine is needed because the wound is not
healing with the traditional approach

Answer 14

b. Contact the Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada for guidance

Question 15

Which of the following statements is true of health care delivery and Aboriginal people?
a. Health care services are delivered to First Nations and Inuit people the same way
they are delivered to non-Aboriginal people
b. Health care services are delivered to First Nations and Metis people the same
way they are delivered to non-Aboriginal people
c. Health care services are delivered to Inuit and Metis people in a different way
than they are delivered to non-Aboriginal people
d. Health care services are delivered to First Nations and Inuit people in a different
way than they are delivered to non-Aboriginal people

Answer 15

d. Health care services are delivered to First Nations and Inuit people in a different
way than they are delivered to non-Aboriginal people

Question 16

Which of the following represents a linguistic and cultural grouping of Aboriginal people?
a. Eastern Subarctic
b. Southern Artic
c. Western Woodlands
d. Northeast Atlantic

Answer 16

a. Eastern Subarctic

Question 17

Which of the following statements is true of the way of life of Aboriginal people before
colonization?
a. Childcare and education were the responsibility of the women
b. Elders provided for the community
c. Sharing of resources was expected
d. Transgression was dealt with by the provincial leader

Answer 17

c. Sharing of resources was expected

Question 18

Which of the following are examples of diseases that Europeans brought to Canada?
a. Heart disease, tuberculosis, and cancer
b. Smallpox, tuberculosis, and measles
c. Hypertension, rubella, and mumps
d. Syphilis, cancer, and measles

Answer 18

b. Smallpox, tuberculosis, and measles

Question 19

Why were Aboriginal people relegated to living on reserves?
a. Because they wanted to live together with people who understood their culture and language
b. Because they did not trust the European settlers and did not want to live with them
c. Because Britain developed the treaty method to claim land that the Aboriginal people occupied
d. Because they decided the European settlers might come want to live close by to experience Aboriginal culture

Answer 19

c. Because Britain developed the treaty method to claim land that the Aboriginal people occupied

Question 20

What was the purpose of residential schools?
a. To promote and preserve Aboriginal culture and heritage
b. To provide Aboriginal children with a more comfortable living space c. To ensure Aboriginal children had acquired immunity to diseases
d. To assimilate Aboriginal children into the general population

Answer 20

d. To assimilate Aboriginal children into the general population

Question 21

Which of the following statements is true of Inuit people?
a. They are treated in the same manner as registered Indians by the federal government
b. They are treated differently than status Indians by the federal government
c. They are treated in the same manner as non-status Indians by the federal government
d. They are treated in the same manner as Metis by the federal government

Answer 21

a. They are treated in the same manner as registered Indians by the federal government

Question 22

Which of the following statements is true of Aboriginal people in Canada?
a. Metis make up 53% of Aboriginal people
b. First Nations make up 61% of Aboriginal people
c. Inuit make up 15% of Aboriginal people
d. First Nations make up 85% of Aboriginal people

Answer 22

b. First Nations make up 61% of Aboriginal people

Question 23

Which province/territory has the highest proportion of Aboriginal people in comparison to the total population?
a. British Columbia
b. Manitoba
c. Yukon
d. Nunavut

Answer 23

d. Nunavut

Question 24

The rate of tuberculosis is how many times higher in the Aboriginal population than in
the non-Aboriginal population?
a. 10 times higher
b. 4 times higher
c. 6 times higher
d. 12 times higher

Answer 24

c. 6 times higher

Question 25

Why is healthy child development an important health indicator for Aboriginal populations?
a. Because the infant morbidity rate is three times higher than non-Aboriginal populations
b. Because one third of the Aboriginal population are classified as children
c. Because there is enough food for all of the Aboriginal children
d. Because the high immunization rates are a strength of Aboriginal communities

Answer 25

b. Because one third of the Aboriginal population are classified as children