Chapter 7: Overview of Transcultural Nursing - Nurselytic

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Many Islamic people abstain from eating pork. Members of other religions also proscribe the consumption of meat in general, or pork in particular, but the other listed religions are not among these.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Policies that promote culturally competent care establish flexible regulations pertaining to visitors, provide translation services for nonEnglish-speaking patients, and train staff to provide care for patients with different cultural values. Writing instructions, having the patient demonstrate the procedure, and asking the patient to repeat instructions do not adequately compensate for the communication barrier that exists.

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Assessment of a patients culture should include the patients country of origin, language (communication style), food preferences or restrictions, health maintenance practices, and religious practices. This aspect of assessment does not explicitly include the patients support systems, marital status, or age, though each of these parameters would be assessed at different points.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Culturally competent policies are developed to promote an environment in which the traditional healing, spiritual, and religious practices of patients are respected and encouraged and to recognize the special dietary practices of patients from selected cultural groups.
To promote spirituality and transcultural nursing, the nurse should make or help to make the arrangements. The nurse should not attempt to dissuade the family or to relegate the ceremony to a site outside the hospital.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: The nurses behavior is an example of cultural imposition, defined as the tendency to impose ones cultural beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior on a person from a different culture. Acculturation is the process by which members of a cultural group adapt to or learn how to take on the behaviors of another group. Cultural blindness is the inability of people to recognize their own values, beliefs, and practices and those of others because of strong ethnocentric tendencies. Cultural taboos are activities or behaviors that are avoided, forbidden, or prohibited by a particular cultural group.