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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
When categorizing this particular complementary therapy, the nurse should identify it as which of the following?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Therapeutic touch is an example of an energy therapy. Biologically based therapies include herbal therapies, special diet therapies, orthomolecular therapies, and biologic therapies. Mind-body interventions include meditation, dance, music, art therapy, prayer, and mental healing. Manipulative and body-based methods include chiropractic, massage therapy, osteopathic manipulation, and reflexology.
Question 2 of 5
Based on her cancer diagnosis and her yin/yang beliefs, which meal will the patient most likely order for lunch?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Foods are classified as cold (yin) and hot (yang) in the naturalistic or holistic perspective. In this theory, foods are transformed into yin and yang energy when metabolized by the body. Hot foods are eaten when a person has a cold illness such as cancer, headache, stomach cramps, and a cold. Based on this information, the patient would select chicken noodle soup with crackers, fruit crisp, and hot tea as these are hot foods. The other options are cold foods and are eaten when a patient has a hot illness such as a fever, rash, sore throat, ulcer, or infection.
Question 3 of 5
What is the nurses best response to the patients indication that his care provider is a shaman?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Native American patients may seek assistance from a shaman or medicine man or woman. The nurses best approach is not to disregard the patients belief in folk healers or try to undermine trust in the healers. Nurses should make an effort to accommodate the patients beliefs while also advocating the treatment proposed by health science.
Question 4 of 5
This belief is an example of which paradigm explaining the cause of disease and illness?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The biomedical or scientific perspective assumes that all events in life have a cause and effect and that all of reality can be observed and measured. One example of the biomedical or scientific view is the bacterial or viral explanation of communicable diseases. The naturalistic or holistic view states that forces of nature must be kept in natural balance or harmony. Factual is not a recognized category of beliefs.
Question 5 of 5
Which of the following diseases would you likely address? Select all that apply.
Correct Answer: A,B,C
Rationale: Ethnic and racial minorities are disproportionately burdened with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), infection/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and other conditions. COPD and Alzheimers disease are incorrect because health care disparities have not been noted with these two diseases.