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NursingFundamentals NursingNursing Active LearningPractice Set 6
NursingFundamentals NursingNursing Active LearningPractice Set 6Ethnicity And Cultural Assessment
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Question 1
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Multiple Choice
A faculty member is contrasting culture and ethnicity to students. Which statement is most accurate?
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Culture is biologically determined; ethnicity is chosen.
Culture is socially transmitted; ethnicity is identification with a group.
Culture is a chosen identity whereas ethnicity is biologically based.
Culture and ethnicity are similar constructs used interchangeably.
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Question 2
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Multiple Choice
A nursing student wants to observe enculturation practices of an ethnic minority community. What action by the student is best?
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Attend a community dance.
Learn to cook an ethnic meal.
Visit the group's worship service.
Observe a grandmother teaching a child.
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Question 3
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The student learns that which item is the most important symbolic aspect of culture?
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Flags
Language
Art
Music
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Question 4
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A charge nurse works on an inpatient unit in a diverse city. Knowing some generalizations about different ethnic groups, which action is best?
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Assign a female nurse to a female Muslim patient.
Allow the family to stay when the Russian patient is told he has cancer.
Start a meeting with a Hispanic family promptly on time.
Have the Amish patient watch patient education podcasts.
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Question 5
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A nurse has been told he has many obvious stereotypes about a specific cultural group. What action by the nurse is best?
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Ask to not care for members of this cultural group.
Ask to take care of as many members of this group as possible.
Begin to educate himself on aspects of this cultural group.
Vow to not allow his stereotypes to show when providing care.
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Question 6
Multiple Choice
A nurse is caring for a homeless patient and tells the manager, "I will make sure he doesn't steal food from our nourishment center." What action by the manager is best?
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Tell the nurse she is right to monitor the patient's activity.
Inform the nurse that not all homeless people will steal.
Educate the nurse that hunger might make the patient steal.
Remind the nurse to initiate a social work consultation.
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Question 7
Multiple Choice
The new nurse tells the preceptor that since she is not prejudiced against ethnic minorities, they will not be discriminated against while in the hospital. What statement by the preceptor is most appropriate?
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Discrimination can occur at the societal level.
The hospital needs more nurses like her.
Prejudice and discrimination are not the same thing.
There is always some discrimination against minorities.
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Question 8
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What does the nursing student learn about race?
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It is biologically based.
It is a social construct.
It is chosen by the person.
It helps establish superiority.
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Question 9
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The nurse is caring for a patient from a culture that is unfamiliar. The patient nodded her head "yes" when asked if she will take her prescriptions as ordered, but the nurse discovers the patient does not take the medication, but uses herbs for treatment. What action by the nurse is best?
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Warn the patient of the consequences on non-compliance.
Tell the patient how the medication will help the condition.
Ask the patient why herbal preparations are preferred.
Ask the patient to explain the meaning of the herbal products.
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Question 10
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A nurse is caring for a refugee patient who wants the community shaman to perform a healing ritual at the bedside. What action by the nurse is best?
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Work with the patient to allow the shaman to perform the ritual.
Investigate whether the ritual will harm the patient.
Check to see if the ritual breaks laws or policies.
Offer to call the hospital chaplain instead.
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Question 11
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A new graduate nurse tells the manager that she does not believe she needs more in-service training on culturally congruent care because she already recognizes that there are significant differences among cultures to take into account when providing care. What response by the manager is best?
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"You have done a great job becoming culturally competent."
"Providing culturally congruent care takes ongoing work and effort."
"That is a great start, but be sure to sign up for the in-service."
"Cultural sensitivity and cultural competence are not the same."
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Question 12
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A nurse is working with a patient who has limited English proficiency. What action by the nurse is best?
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Use a qualified interpreter.
Ask family members to translate.
Use drawings and pictures.
Speak in simple sentences.
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Question 13
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The nurse is working with a patient from an unfamiliar culture. After assessing the patient and the patient's cultural beliefs related to health care, what action by the nurse is best?
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Create a nursing plan of care for the patient.
Recheck cultural beliefs with the patient.
Use a standard plan of care for consistency.
Have an interpreter validate the information.
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Question 14
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A patient from an unfamiliar culture appears disinterested when the physician is telling her about options for treatment of a new diagnosis. After the physician leaves, the nurse attempts to talk to the patient and notices the same behavior. What action by the nurse is best?
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Give the patient the information in writing to read later.
Ask the patient about the meaning of the patient's behavior.
Investigate nonverbal communication patterns of this group.
Leave the patient alone to come to terms with the diagnosis.
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Question 15
Multiple Choice
A patient in the emergency department needs an emergency operation. The patient refuses to consent and wants the nurse to call a respected elder in the community for consent. What action by the nurse is best?
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Explain that this violates privacy laws.
Call the elder to get consent for the operation.
Tell the woman she has the right to consent.
Arrange for admission without the operation.
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Question 16
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A patient refuses to take his blood pressure medication because "I feel totally fine and don't need it." What action by the nurse is best?
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Assess the patient's time orientation.
Document the patient's non-compliance.
Educate the patient about the medication.
Warn the patient about possible complications.
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Question 17
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The nurse is caring for a patient from a different cultural background. What action by the nurse best demonstrates cultural maintenance?
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Assist the patient with a healing ritual.
Teach the patient a heart healthy diet.
Instruct the patient on monitoring blood glucose.
Discuss what self-care activities the patient is willing to do.
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Question 18
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A student nurse is caring for a patient who is a refugee. The patient will take his own blood glucose readings and will self-administer a set dose of insulin but will not follow a sliding scale regimen in which the patient has to choose what dose of insulin to give. What action by the student nurse is best?
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Ask the provider to prescribe only a set insulin regimen.
Instruct the patient on the benefits of sliding scale insulin.
Teach the patient that strict carbohydrate limits are needed.
Ask the patient to explain the meaning of making this decision.
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Question 19
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A home health care nurse is visiting the home of a patient whose culture is totally unfamiliar to the nurse. What action by the nurse is best?
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Perform nursing care with a high degree of professionalism.
Watch family interaction patterns closely and try to copy them.
Tell the family you need to learn about their culture.
Apologize after performing tasks that make the patient uncomfortable.
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Question 20
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The nurse is caring for a patient from a different culture. After assessing the patient and formulating the care plan, what action by the nurse is best?
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Review the care plan for acceptance by the patient.
Delegate appropriate tasks to unlicensed assistive personnel.
Go over the care plan with the charge nurse.
Begin implementing the planned interventions.
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