Chapter 14: Values and Beliefs

Chapter 14: Values and Beliefs

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. It is believed that a person’s value system is well established by age:

ANS:   C

The value system, developed in early childhood, is well established by the age of 10 years.

DIF:    Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF:    234      OBJ:    1

TOP:    Value System                          KEY:   Nursing Process Step: N/A

MSC:   NCLEX: N/A

2. The culturally sensitive nurse is aware that in caring for a patient with a different value system, the nurse should:

ANS:   A

Persons are prone to view those with a different value system from their own in a negative and prejudicial manner.

DIF:    Cognitive Level: Comprehension       REF:    236      OBJ:    1

TOP:    Value Systems Differences    KEY:   Nursing Process Step: Planning

MSC:   NCLEX: Psychosocial Integrity: Psychosocial Adaptation

3. When the 80-year-old Orthodox Jewish man dies in the hospital, the nurse should:

ANS:   A

A synagogue member will come to pray and read scripture from the time of death to the time of burial, which must take place 24 hours after death. The reader will accompany the body to the morgue, mortuary, and burial site. Jewish persons are forbidden to be cremated or embalmed.

DIF:    Cognitive Level: Analysis      REF:    235, Cultural Considerations

OBJ:    5          TOP:    Jewish Culture

KEY:   Nursing Process Step: Implementation

MSC:   NCLEX: Psychosocial Integrity: Psychosocial Adaptation

4. The nurse is careful not to remove the yarmulke from the head of the Jewish man during care because it is a symbol of:

ANS:   B

The yarmulke is worn by Jewish men to remind them that God is higher than man.

DIF:    Cognitive Level: Application REF:    235, Cultural Considerations

OBJ:    4          TOP:    Jewish Culture

KEY:   Nursing Process Step: Planning

MSC:   NCLEX: Psychosocial Integrity: Psychosocial Adaptation