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Timby's Introductory Medical-Surgical Nursing Thirteenth, North American Edition
Chapter 8 : Cultural Care Considerations Questions
Question 1 of 5
While providing personal care for a client, the nurse observes that the client is not comfortable with the close physical proximity. How will the nurse alleviate the discomfort of the client during personal care?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Simple explanations of the need for physical proximity during clinical procedures and personal care help alleviate the discomfort that the client may experience. Maintaining sufficient distance and ensuring that the client's family member is present may not help alleviate the discomfort the client is experiencing. Speaking words or phrases in the client's language will help in communicating with clients who do not speak the dominant language, but this action is not related to proximity.
Question 2 of 5
Which describes thinking that one's values and beliefs are superior to others?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's ethnic heritage is the 'correct' one and superior to others. Acculturation involves the process of adapting to or taking on the behaviors of another group. Cultural imposition is the inclination to impose one's cultural beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior on people of a different culture. Cultural taboos are activities governed by rules of behavior that a particular cultural group avoids, forbids, or prohibits.
Question 3 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 4 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 5 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.