ATI LPN
Foundations and Adult Health Nursing Test Bank
Chapter 6 : Cultural and Ethnic Considerations Questions
Question 1 of 5
What is the term for a group of people who share a common social and cultural heritage based on shared traditions national origin and physical and biological characteristics?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Ethnicity refers to a group of people who share a common social and cultural heritage based on shared traditions, national origin, and physical and biological characteristics.
Question 2 of 5
A nurse is caring for a neonate born to observant Orthodox Jewish parents. Who can the nurse anticipate will name the neonate?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: For observant Jews, babies are named by the father.
Question 3 of 5
A nurse is caring for a male neonate born to observant Orthodox Jewish parents. Who will the nurse anticipate will circumcise the neonate?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Male children are named 8 days after birth, when ritual circumcision is done. A mohel performs the circumcision.
Question 4 of 5
A nurse is caring for a female neonate born to observant Orthodox Jewish parents. What book does the nurse know will be used when naming this neonate?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: For observant Jews, female babies are usually named during a reading of the Holy
Torah.
Question 5 of 5
A nurse is caring for an Orthodox Jewish woman immediately after she has given birth. What can the nurse expect regarding the spouse's participation in his wife's care?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: For observant Jews, a woman is considered to be in a ritual state of impurity whenever blood is coming from her uterus, such as during menstrual periods and after the birth of a child. During this time, her husband will not have physical contact with her. When this time is completed, she will bathe herself in a pool called a mikvah. Nurses need to be aware of this practice and be sensitive to the husband and wife because the husband will not touch his wife.