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Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 14e (Hinkle 2017)
Chapter 7 : Overview of Transcultural Nursing Questions
Question 1 of 5
The nurse should consider what phenomenon that tends to occur in patients of all ages when they are ill?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: During illness, patients of all ages tend to regress, and the regression often involves language skills. The other tendencies do not apply in this case.
Question 2 of 5
What aspect of Leiningers theory is the nurse addressing?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Culture care restructuring or repatterning refers to professional actions and decisions that help patients reorder, change, or modify their lifestyles toward new, different, or more beneficial health care patterns. The other listed options are not part of Leiningers theory.
Question 3 of 5
What term would best describe this religions beliefs and their impact on health care for this child?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Cultural taboos are activities or behaviors that are avoided, forbidden, or prohibited by a particular cultural group. The other answers do not apply.
Question 4 of 5
When interacting with patients and families, of what must the nurse be cognizant?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Because the nursepatient interaction is the focal point of nursing, nurses should consider their own cultural orientation when conducting assessments of patients and their families and friends. The nurses health is relevant, but secondary. Similarly, the institutional culture is not a priority. Acculturation is not actively promoted by the nurse.
Question 5 of 5
Which of the following variables are known to underlie health disparities? Select all that apply.
Correct Answer: A,B,C
Rationale: Many reasons are cited for these disparities, including low socioeconomic status, health behaviors, limited access to health care because of poverty or disability, environmental factors, and direct and indirect manifestations of discrimination. Other causes include lack of health insurance; overdependence on publicly funded facilities; and barriers to health care, such as insufficient transportation, geographic location (not enough providers in an area), cost of services, and the low numbers of minority health care providers. Male gender and a patients allergy status are not identified as contributors to health disparities.