Community As Partner Theory And Practice in Nursing 7th edition by Anderson
Community As Partner Theory And Practice in Nursing 7th edition by Anderson
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Chapter 07 Community As Partner Theory And Practice in Nursing 7th Edition
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| 1. | A community health nurse is working in a large urban city, situated in a culturally diverse area of the country. What does the nurse need to do to be culturally competent? | |
| A) | Recognize that people with cultural backgrounds different from our own have unique values, life ways, health practices, and interpersonal styles. | |
| B) | Understand and address the total context of the client’s situation, using knowledge, attitudes, and skills. | |
| C) | Be aware that people adapt to and borrow traits from another culture and change their own cultural patterns to those of the host society. | |
| D) | Remember that an individual’s own traditional beliefs and practices of their culture must always be observed. | |
| Ans: | A | |
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| Being culturally competent means that we understand how cultural beliefs and practices influence our daily lives and recognize that people with cultural backgrounds different from our own have unique values, life ways, health practices, and interpersonal styles. Cultural appropriateness occurs when a nurse understands and addresses the total context of the client’s situation, using knowledge, attitudes, and skills. Cultural acculturation is being aware that people adapt to and borrow traits from another culture and change their own cultural patterns to those of the host society. Heritage consistency relates to the observance of beliefs and practices of an individual’s traditional cultural system that may be observed. | ||
| 2. | Which of the following best describes ethnocentric views? | |
| A) | Dual patterns of identification of two cultures, lifestyles, and sets of values | |
| B) | Belief that one’s own culture or ways of life are better than those of others | |
| C) | Belonging to a specific group of individuals who share a common social and cultural heritage | |
| D) | Research framework that is used to provide the ability to focus on the culture of the community where the nurse is practicing | |
| Ans: | B | |
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| Ethnocentric views come about through believing that one’s own culture or way of life is better than that of others. Biculture describes an individual with dual patterns of identification of two cultures, lifestyles, and sets of values. Being an ethnical individual occurs when one belongs to a specific group of individuals who share a common social and cultural heritage. Ethnography is a research that provides a framework to focus on the culture of a group of individuals. | ||
| 3. | Which of the following is an overarching goal of Healthy People 2020? | |
| A) | Developing partnerships between individuals and community health | |
| B) | Believing that individual health is closely related to community health | |
| C) | Decreasing disparities among subgroups of the population | |
| D) | Increasing the length and improving the quality of healthy life | |
| Ans: | D | |
| Feedback: | ||
| Healthy People 2020 initiatives are guided by two overarching goals: to increase the length and improve the quality of healthy life; and to eliminate disparities among subgroups of the population. | ||
| 4. | Which of the following is a major reason that health disparities exist? | |
| A) | No sensitivity to the needs of the individuals to be served | |
| B) | Problems experienced in accessing and effectively utilizing health services | |
| C) | Belief that individual’s health is not closely related to community health. | |
| D) | Common ground exists among clients and communities to encourage culturally competent health care partnerships. | |
| Ans: | B | |
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| Health disparities exist and are due, at least in part, to problems experienced in accessing and effectively utilizing health services. Reducing and eventually eliminating disparities depends on building common ground among clients, providers, agencies, and communities so that culturally competent health care partnerships can grow in number and quality of services. | ||
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