ATI LPN
Timby's Introductory Medical-Surgical Nursing Thirteenth, North American Edition
Chapter 8 : Cultural Care Considerations Questions
Question 1 of 5
The nursing instructor discussed the theory of energy forces existing between organisms and objects in the universe and called this yin-yang. Yin-yang is an example of which societal view of illness?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The naturalistic view espouses that human beings are only one part of nature. The yin-yang theory promotes the idea that energy forces exist between organisms and objects in the universe. The balance between these forces is health. The biomedical or scientific view embraces a cause-and-effect philosophy of human body functions. The magico-religious view believes that supernatural forces dominate.
Question 2 of 5
Which is a process by which the nurse consistently works in the cultural context of the client, family, and community?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Providing culturally competent care is a process by which the nurse consistently endeavors to work in the cultural context and client's family, culture and community. Stereotyping means assuming that all people in a particular cultural, racial, or ethnic group share the same values and beliefs, behave similarly, and are basically like. Ethnicity is the bond or kinship that people feel with their country of birth or place of ancestral origin. Subculture refers to a particular group that shares characteristics identifying the group as a distinct entity.
Question 3 of 5
Which describes the inability to recognize the values, beliefs, and practices of others because of one's strong ethnocentric preferences?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Cultural blindness is an inability to recognize the values, beliefs, and practices of others because of strong ethnocentric preferences. Cultural taboos are activities governed by rules of behavior that a particular cultural group avoids, forbids, or prohibits. Acculturation involves adapting to or taking on the behaviors of another group. Cultural norms are inclination to impose one's cultural beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior on people from a different culture.
Question 4 of 5
A nurse works in a health care setting that serves the Amish community. Members of this community look to the bishop who governs the community to make decisions about health care treatments. The nurse who provides extra time for a client from this community to select a treatment option and to discuss the situation with the community bishop is demonstrating which cultural concept?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Generalization is using the knowledge of the trends within a specific group or community to guide the care of the client without stereotyping. However, the nurse must recognize that generalization can lead to oversimplification and stereotyping. Stereotyping has an end point; the assumption prevents one from seeing another person as unique. Generalization acknowledges common trends in a group while recognizing that more information is needed. Ageism is the stereotyping of older adult behavior or vulnerability based on an individual's prior experiences or anticipation of behaviors. Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's own ethnic heritage is the 'correct' one' and superior to others.
Question 5 of 5
A nurse is completing discharge instructions for a client. The nurse can best evaluate the likeliness that the client will adhere to the instructions by the use of which action?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Some individuals will not openly disagree with people in authority or who possess advanced education, so it is best for the nurse to assess the client's beliefs regarding health maintenance, promotion, and remedies. A client smiling, agreeing to, or promising to comply is not proof of agreement because the client may believe it impolite to disagree with someone seen as being in a position of authority.