Chapter 06: Cultural Aspects of Nursing Care

Chapter 06: Cultural Aspects of Nursing Care

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MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. A home health nurse prepares to teach a Latino patient who neither speaks nor reads English how to measure and administer insulin. Which teaching tool should be the most helpful?

ANS:  C

If the patient has been assessed as not being able to process written or spoken English, providing literature is futile. A nutrition pamphlet has nothing to do with injecting insulin. Pictures and a clock are universal symbols that are readily understood. Return demonstrations with the actual syringe are good learning exercises.

DIF:    Cognitive Level: Application           REF:   p. 68               OBJ:   4

TOP:   Adaptation for Cultural Diversity     KEY:  Nursing Process Step: Implementation

MSC:  NCLEX: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care and Comfort

2. A young Asian wife of a businessman recently transferred to the United States is brought to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. The nurses make every effort to plan correct care. Which term best describes the integration of cultural concepts into the nursing care plan?

ANS:  D

The health team must be sensitive to an Asian patient’s preference for alternative health care measures such as herbalists and medication, as well as understand that pain is endured quietly, without complaint.

DIF:    Cognitive Level: Comprehension     REF:   p. 67               OBJ:   1

TOP:   Transcultural Nursing                      KEY:  Nursing Process Step: Planning

MSC:  NCLEX: Psychosocial Integrity: Coping and Adaptation

3. A nurse is clearing the bedside area to give a bed bath to a Muslim woman the day after a cesarean section. What action should the culturally sensitive nurse implement?

ANS:  D

Muslim women are extremely modest and prefer clothes that cover the entire body. The Koran is not to be handled by any non-Muslim person, and the taviz is worn at all times. Muslim women are excused from prayer for 40 days after childbirth.

DIF:    Cognitive Level: Application           REF:   p. 74               OBJ:   5

TOP:   Assessing Cultural Influences Pertinent to Nursing Care

KEY:  Nursing Process Step: Implementation

MSC:  NCLEX: Psychosocial Integrity: Coping and Adaptation

4. A nurse is caring for a young woman who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon).What should be offered as an appropriate snack by the nurse?

ANS:  A

The Mormon faith abstains from the use of beverages with caffeine such as cola, coffee, and tea. Juice and cookies do not violate the dietary habits.

DIF:    Cognitive Level: Application           REF:   p. 73               OBJ:   2 | 4

TOP:   Dietary Habits                                 KEY:  Nursing Process Step: Planning

MSC:  NCLEX: Physiological Integrity: Basic Care and Comfort

5. Two licensed practical/vocational nurses (LPN/LVNs) are colleagues on the same medical-surgical floor. They went to the same LPN/LVN school. When on break time, they discuss the holistic entries of the nursing care plans they are helping create. What does this behavior exemplify?

ANS:  A

Professional nursing is a subculture that is learned in the professional school and experienced by practitioners in practice settings, such as a hospital break room, where nurses of a similar subculture can address patient care planning issues to provide holistic nursing care.

DIF:    Cognitive Level: Comprehension     REF:   p. 68               OBJ:   5

TOP:   Subculture of Professional Nursing                                   KEY:  Nursing Process Step: N/A

MSC:  NCLEX: N/A