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All members of a culture will not have the same behavior. These variations are based on individual differences. Interventions that would address these differences include (select all that apply): |
1)Schedule patient care around prayer time, 2)provide teaching in the language spoken, 3)encourage family to participate in patient care |
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When assessing a patient from a different culture, the most important area to consider is: |
Language spoken |
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A Muslim patients visiting the physicians office was told she will have to remove her clothes and put an examination gown. The patient became upset and refused to do so. Then nurse allows the patient to remain in history close because she knows: |
As a Muslim, the patient must keep as much of her body covered as possible |
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When the patient, a native of Mexico, comes to the clinic, she asks the nurse to allow her 10-year-old daughter to remain with her in the examination room. The nurse should: |
Consider that the child may be there to serve as an interpreter for her mother |
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The student nurse tells her instructor that she does not understand why a Chinese American family is not grieving they're dying father. The instructor's response is based on knowing that the student nurse is: |
Ethnocentric |
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A female nurse who is black is assigned to care for a 86 year old resident in a nursing home. When she enters the room, he makes several racially offensive remarks. What would be the appropriate response? |
Understand that he is possibly less tolerant of other races because of his own cultural experiences or he perhaps has disturbed cognitive functions |
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The nurse is assigned to care for a Muslim patient. When the nurse enters the room, he realizes that the patient is praying. The nurse should: |
Quietly leave the room and give the patient privacy to pray |
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A 72-year-old black woman from Mississippi has been diagnosed with type two diabetes and hypertension. The student nurse tells the patient that her vegetables should be steamed and served plain. The patient responds , but honey I always cook my green beans with ham and salt/pepper. How can I eat them plain? A culturally sensitive response might be: |
You must follow the physicians order if you want to get better |
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When the nurse is aware of his or her own culture beliefs, the beliefs and practices of other cultures, and has ability to interact effectively with individuals from other cultures, the nurses said to be: |
Culturally competent |
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The first step to becoming culturally competent is to: |
Know your own culture |
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Before implementation of any newly procedure, the nurse notices that the family of an older adult patient always consults the eldest son. The social organization of this family is most likely: |
Patriarchal |
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Subculture |
Have characteristics patterns that distinguish them from the rest of the culture |
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Ethnicity |
Refers to a group of people who share a common social and cultural heritage based on shared traditions, national origin and physical and biological characteristics |
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Proprietary |
Agencies Operate for profit |
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Nonmaleficience |
to do no harm |
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Benificience |
Doing good or acting for someone's good |
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Malpractice |
Failing to meet your legal duty and causing harm because of it |
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Negligence |
The commission of an act that a reasonable person would have done |
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autonomy |
Freedom to make your own choices/decision |
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Confidentiality |
Protecting the information in the patient's record, it is an ethical responsibility |
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Patriarchal |
Social group the father or eldest male makes most decisions |
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Behaviorism |
The learning style correct choices are rewarded and behaviors that are incorrect need to be avoided or ignored |
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Cognitivism |
Learning style define learning as a complex thinking process |
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Constructivism |
Learning process is an active constructive process |
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Stereotype |
A generalization about a form of behavior |
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Ethnocentrism |
The believe that your ethnic group way of doing things is better than everyone else's |
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Agnostic |
Hold the believe that the existence of God can neither be proven nor disproven |
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Discrimination |
The unfair of unequal treatment of others |
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Atheist |
Believe that God does not exist |
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Culture |
The set of learned values, beliefs, customs, and practices |
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Leaninger |
She wrote the transcultural nursing theory |
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Copayment |
This is the amount of an insured person must pay at the time of an office visit, when picking up a prescription or before hospital service |
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Third world belief, as planned by God, evil spirits, rituals, supernatural forces |
Folk |
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Diseases can be manipulated, treatments, medications |
Biomedical |
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The old is faith that believes in one God |
Judaism |
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Focuses on restoring balance with the physical social and metaphysical world |
Hollistic |
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Asians view of our contact with authority figures |
Disrespectful |
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Religious group that refuses blood transfusions |
Jehovah witness |
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Therapies such as therapeutic touch, aromatic therapy , meditation |
Alternative |
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Characteristics patterns that distinguish them from the rest of the culture |
Subculture |