Chapter 05: Cultural Issues

Chapter 05: Cultural Issues

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

MULTIPLE CHOICE

 

1. Culture is defined as a group’s shared:

a.	race and ethnicity.
b.	values, beliefs, and norms.
c.	biologic variations and psychological characteristics.
d.	patterned behavioral responses that developed over time.

 

 

ANS:  B

Culture is the internal and external manifestation of a person’s, group’s, or community’s learned and shared values, beliefs, and norms that are used to help individuals function in life and understand and interpret life occurrences. None of the other responses provides an adequate explanation of culture, because all are too narrow in scope.

 

DIF:    Cognitive level: Understanding        REF:   p. 50

TOP:   Nursing process: Implementation     MSC:  NCLEX: Safe, Effective Care Environment

 

2. A nurse begins work at an agency that provides care to members of a minority ethnic population. The nurse will be better able to demonstrate cultural competence after:

a.	identifying culture-bound issues.
b.	implementing scientifically proven interventions.
c.	correcting inferior health practices of the population.
d.	exploring commonly held beliefs and values of the population.

 

 

ANS:  D

Cultural competence is dependent on understanding the beliefs and values of members of a different culture. A nurse who works with an individual or group of a culture different from his or her own must be open to learning about the culture. The other options have little to do with cultural competence or represent only a portion of the answer.

 

DIF:    Cognitive level: Applying                REF:   p. 50

TOP:   Nursing process: Implementation     MSC:  NCLEX: Safe, Effective Care Environment

 

3. A nurse cares for a first-generation American whose family emigrated from Germany one generation ago. This patient would probably have which worldview about the source of knowledge?

a.	Knowledge is acquired through use of affective or feeling senses.
b.	Knowledge is acquired according to proof of existence.
c.	Knowledge develops by striving for transcendence of the mind and body.
d.	Knowledge evolves from an individual’s relationship with a supreme being.

 

 

ANS:  B

The European-American perspective of acquiring knowledge evolves through acquiring proof that something exists using the personal senses. The distracters describe the beliefs of other cultural groups.

 

DIF:    Cognitive level: Understanding        REF:   p. 51

TOP:   Nursing process: Assessment           MSC:  NCLEX: Psychosocial Integrity

 

4. The nurse administers medications to a culturally diverse group of patients on a psychiatric unit. What expectation should the nurse have about pharmacokinetics?

a.	Patients of different cultural groups may metabolize medications at different rates.
b.	Metabolism of psychotropic medication is consistent among various cultural groups.
c.	Differences in hepatic enzymes will influence the rate of elimination of psychotropic medications.
d.	It is important to provide patients with oral and written literature about their psychotropic medications.

 

 

ANS:  A

Cytochrome P-450 enzyme systems, which vary among different cultural groups, influence the rate of metabolism of psychoactive drugs. Renal function influences elimination of psychotropic medication; hepatic function influences metabolism rates. Information about medication is important but does not apply to pharmacokinetics.

 

DIF:    Cognitive level: Understanding        REF:   p. 53

TOP:   Nursing process: Assessment           MSC:  NCLEX: Psychosocial Integrity