CHAPTER 20: CULTURAL DIVERSITY

CHAPTER 20: CULTURAL DIVERSITY

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. The nurse groups people based on biological similarities. This is practice is grouping people according to:

ANS:  A

Race refers to a grouping of people based on biological similarities. Ethnicity is a cultural group’s perception of themselves. Culture refers to knowledge, beliefs, behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, habits, customs, languages, symbols, rituals, ceremonies, and practices that are unique to a particular group of people. Nationality is a term used by some to describe the culture of origin.

PTS:   1                    DIF:    Analysis         REF:   Concepts of Culture

2. The nurse makes a conscious decision to not believe that one’s own ethnic beliefs, customs and attitudes are correct and superior. This nurse is consciously avoiding:

ANS:  C

Ethnocentrism is the belief that one’s own culture is superior to all others. Racism is discrimination toward individuals who are misperceived to be inferior due to biologic differences. Stereotyping is the expectation that all people within the same racial, ethnic, or cultural group act alike and share the same beliefs and attitudes. Acculturation is the process of assuming the characteristics of the dominant culture.

PTS:   1                    DIF:    Application    REF:   Labeling and Stereotyping

3. The nurse is reviewing characteristics of different cultural groups and recalls that a person from which group is most likely to make eye contact with the nurse?

ANS:  B

Members of the European American culture believe eye contact indicates trustworthiness. With the other cultural groups listed, eye contact is either rude or disrespectful.

PTS:   1                    DIF:    Analysis

REF:   Table 20-2 Application of Cultural Phenomena to Nursing Care

4. The nurse recalls that an individual from which group is most likely to view health as an absence of disease or illness?

ANS:  A

Members of the European American culture usually define health as the absence of disease or illness. Asian Americans view health as a state of physical and spiritual harmony with nature. Hispanic Americans view health as a reward from God or the result of good luck. African Americans view health as harmony with nature.

PTS:   1                    DIF:    Analysis

REF:   Table 20-2 Application of Cultural Phenomena to Nursing Care

5. The nurse who is caring for a terminally ill infant asks the parents if they want their clergyman called to baptize the child. The parents reply that they do not believe in infant baptism. The nurse believes the infant must be baptized before it dies. Which action is most appropriate for the nurse to take?

ANS:  C

The nurse should use a nonjudgmental approach with the family of the terminally ill child and respect and accept the directives of the parents. The nurse should not try to convince the parents to baptize the child nor should the nurse baptize the child. The nurse should not call the clergyman of the nurse’s faith to baptize the child.

PTS:   1                    DIF:    Application    REF:   Nonjudgmental Approach