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Chapter 6: Environmental Control

Transcultural Nursing Assessment and Intervention, 6th Edition by Joyce Newman Giger

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Chapter 6: Environmental Control

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

MULTIPLE CHOICE

  1. The nurse suspects that the client has nontraditional health beliefs and often uses nontraditional remedies to treat various illnesses. What is the best approach for obtaining this information from the client?
A

.

 “What are your favorite foods?”
B

.

 “Have you been taking any remedies that your family taught you to use?”
C

.

 “Would you like to keep wearing that gold cross while you are in the hospital?”
D

.

 “You haven’t been eating any of those funny herbs your people use, have you?”

ANS:   B                     DIF: Cognitive Level: Application

KEY:   Nursing Process: Analysis

MSC:   NCLEX Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance

  1. If people have a fatalistic attitude toward life, they are likely to seek medical attention:
A

.

 More readily.
B

.

 Less readily.

ANS:   B                     DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge

KEY:   Nursing Process: Planning

MSC:   NCLEX Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance

  1. An individual’s feelings of environmental control will affect beliefs about compliance with a medical regimen. Which of the following is most likely to be true?
A

.

 A person with internal locus of control will be more likely to feel personal actions

that can influence future health.
B

.

 A person with external locus of control will be more likely to feel personal ac-

tions that can influence future health.
C

.

 A person who believes in fate and change as an important determinant of nature

has an internal locus of control.
D

.

 A belief that the natural course of nature cannot be affected by individuals indi-

cates belief in internal locus of control.

 

ANS:   A                     DIF:     Cognitive Level: Knowledge

KEY:   Nursing Process: Analysis

MSC:   NCLEX Category: Health Promotion and Maintenance

  1. The nurse is admitting a 40-year-old female patient newly emigrated from Mexico. The patient has hypertension. As this is the initial visit to the clinic, the best approach to assess what, if any, folk medicine the patient may have used is for the nurse to ask:
A

.

 “What have you been doing to treat your symptoms?”
B

.

 “Have you been using any remedies that come from Mexico?”
C

.

 “Would you like to keep wearing that garlic necklace while you are in the hospi-

tal?”
D

.

 “Have you been using herbs to treat your illness?”

ANS:   A                     DIF:     Cognitive Level: Application

KEY:   Nursing Process: Assessment

MSC:   NCLEX Category: Psychosocial Integrity

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