Chapter 09: Cultural Diversity in Health Care

Chapter 09: Cultural Diversity in Health Care

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. According to Leininger, “cultural imposition” is a major concern in nursing because nurses have a tendency to impose their values, beliefs, and practices on those of other cultures. The discussion topic most likely to be without cultural imposition would be:

ANS:   B

Abortion, blood transfusion, and advance directives are heavily imbued with values, beliefs, and practices that may be different between patients and nurses.

REF:    Pages 167, 168

TOP:    AONE competency: Communication and Relationship-Building

2. Cultural diversity is the term used to describe a vast range of cultural differences. Events have symbolic meanings for the nurse manager and the staff. The event that would be most likely to provide symbolic meaning to a nurse manager and staff is a:

ANS:   C

Symbols define and reflect a culture. Nursing week, with a focus on nursing interests, reflects the culture of nursing.

REF:    Page 161

TOP:    AONE competency: Communication and Relationship-Building

3. One of the staff nurses on your unit makes the comment, “All this time I thought Mary was black. She says she is Jamaican.” The best response would be to say:

ANS:   B

The response of the nurse manager invites cultural awareness, which involves self-examination and in-depth exploration of one’s own biases, prejudices, and assumptions.

REF:    Page 164

TOP:    AONE competency: Communication and Relationship-Building

4. As a nurse manager, you notice that Maria, a Hispanic nurse aide, is visibly upset. When you ask her if something is wrong, she becomes tearful and says, “Why is it that when John and I work together in giving patients care, he jokes about my being “a little fat Mexican”? The nurse manager’s best response is, “Do you think he:

ANS:   D

Stereotyping and prejudice enable us to predict behaviors and make sense of situations but constrain our understanding and development of new insights.

REF:    Page 164

TOP:    AONE competency: Communication and Relationship-Building

5. The nurse manager of a unit is asked by a family member of a dying Native American patient if it is possible to have the patient’s eight-member family recite the rosary by the bedside. The manager responds affirmatively. The nurse manager is most likely exhibiting behavior related to:

ANS:   D

Cultural sensitivity involves the capacity to feel or react to ideas, customs, and traditions unique to a group of people.

REF:    Pages 162, 163

TOP:    AONE competency: Communication and Relationship-Building