Chapter 08: Cultural and Ethnic Considerations

Chapter 08: Cultural and Ethnic Considerations

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

MULTIPLE CHOICE

 

1. Culture varies from patient to patient, so the nurse must understand and accept each person as an individual to:

a.	develop a plan of care.
b.	provide holistic care.
c.	identify differences.
d.	support each patient.

 

ANS:   B

Accepting each person as an individual is the first step in providing holistic care.

 

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2. A fixed concept of how all members of an ethnic group act or think is identified as:

a.	variations within a cultural group.
b.	identical practices.
c.	holistic nursing.
d.	ethnic stereotype.

 

ANS:   D

Ethnic stereotypes are fixed concepts of how all members of an ethnic group act or think.

 

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3. All nurses should work to provide culturally appropriate nursing care. The integration of cultural knowledge into all aspects of care is known as:

a.	cultural competence.
b.	transcultural nursing.
c.	nursing process.
d.	team nursing.

 

ANS:   B

All nurses should provide transcultural nursing.

 

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4. When members of a particular ethnic group believe that their beliefs and practices are the best, this is called:

a.	prejudice.
b.	separatism.
c.	ethnocentrism.
d.	bias.

 

ANS:   C

When members of a particular ethnic group believe that their practices and beliefs are the best, it is referred to as ethnocentrism.

 

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5. The term used to describe cultures in which women make decisions about health care and provide the care and discipline to the children is:

a.	biological.
b.	matriarchal.
c.	cultural.
d.	patriarchal.

 

ANS:   B

In a matriarchal society, women make the decisions about health care.

 

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