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NSG 411 Exam 2 Questions with Answers (100%
Correct Answers)
culture Answer: - design for living
- provides a set of norms and values that offer stability and security for
members of a society
race Answer: - biologically designated groups of people whose
distinguishing features such as skin color, are inherited
ethnic group Answer: - collection of people who have common origins
and a shared culture and identity
- may share a common geographic origin, race, language, religion,
traditions, values, and food preferences
ethnicity Answer: - group who share cultural and/or physical
characteristics including one or more of the following: history, political
system, religion, language, geographical origin, traditions, myths,
behaviors, foods, genetic similarities, and physical features
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ethnocentrism Answer: - bias that person's own culture is best and
others are wrong or inferior
- can block effective communication by creating biases and
misconceptions about human behavior
- this can cause serious damage to interpersonal relationships and
interfere with the effectiveness of nursing interventions
ethnorelativism Answer: - seeing all behaviors in a cultural context
cultural humility Answer: - lifelong commitment to self evaluation and
self critique; ever-changing dependent upon what is going on with us
and our patients
- humble about our knowledge of patients' beliefs and values
- aware of our own assumptions and prejudices
- address power imbalance in the provider-patient relationship
culture shock Answer: - a state of anxiety that results from cross-
cultural misunderstanding and an inability to interact appropriately in
the new context
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- entering a new culture and anxiety and frustration occur due to
unfamiliarity with foods, language, expectations for dress, gestures and
even facial expression may be misunderstood
- nurses working in unfamiliar countries
cultural adaptation Answer: - successful adjustment to cultural changes
- ex: using chopsticks
what are the 5 characteristics of culture Answer: - learned from others:
beliefs, dress, diet, language, expressions of emotions such as sadness,
grief, joy and happiness
- integrated system of customs and traits: social norms and religious
beliefs
- shared: values- what is good, right, just and fair. ex: catnip tea for
wellbeing, working with community leaders and educating regarding
amount
- mostly tacit (ingrained): mostly unexpressed at the unconscious level.
ex: food offered, touching, nurses must bring to conscious to develop
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awareness, patience and acceptance of cultural differences when doing
a cultural assessment
- dynamic: cultures change over time
biomedical view of health Answer: - Western Society
- relies on scientific principles and sees diseases and injuries as life
events controlled by physical and biochemical processes
- treatments can be aggressive including medication, surgery and even
genetic engineering
magicoreligious view of health Answer: - control of health and illness by
supernatural forces
- disease occur as a result of "committing sins" or "going against God's
will"
- prayer to god or other religious figures used to cope with illness. evil
eye
holistic view of health Answer: - harmonious balance
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NSG 411 Exam 2 Questions with Answers (100%
Correct Answers)
culture Answer: - design for living
- provides a set of norms and values that offer stability and security for
members of a society
race Answer: - biologically designated groups of people whose
distinguishing features such as skin color, are inherited
ethnic group Answer: - collection of people who have common origins
and a shared culture and identity
- may share a common geographic origin, race, language, religion,
traditions, values, and food preferences
ethnicity Answer: - group who share cultural and/or physical
characteristics including one or more of the following: history, political
system, religion, language, geographical origin, traditions, myths,
behaviors, foods, genetic similarities, and physical features
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ethnocentrism Answer: - bias that person's own culture is best and
others are wrong or inferior
- can block effective communication by creating biases and
misconceptions about human behavior
- this can cause serious damage to interpersonal relationships and
interfere with the effectiveness of nursing interventions
ethnorelativism Answer: - seeing all behaviors in a cultural context
cultural humility Answer: - lifelong commitment to self evaluation and
self critique; ever-changing dependent upon what is going on with us
and our patients
- humble about our knowledge of patients' beliefs and values
- aware of our own assumptions and prejudices
- address power imbalance in the provider-patient relationship
culture shock Answer: - a state of anxiety that results from cross-
cultural misunderstanding and an inability to interact appropriately in
the new context
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- entering a new culture and anxiety and frustration occur due to
unfamiliarity with foods, language, expectations for dress, gestures and
even facial expression may be misunderstood
- nurses working in unfamiliar countries
cultural adaptation Answer: - successful adjustment to cultural changes
- ex: using chopsticks
what are the 5 characteristics of culture Answer: - learned from others:
beliefs, dress, diet, language, expressions of emotions such as sadness,
grief, joy and happiness
- integrated system of customs and traits: social norms and religious
beliefs
- shared: values- what is good, right, just and fair. ex: catnip tea for
wellbeing, working with community leaders and educating regarding
amount
- mostly tacit (ingrained): mostly unexpressed at the unconscious level.
ex: food offered, touching, nurses must bring to conscious to develop
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awareness, patience and acceptance of cultural differences when doing
a cultural assessment
- dynamic: cultures change over time
biomedical view of health Answer: - Western Society
- relies on scientific principles and sees diseases and injuries as life
events controlled by physical and biochemical processes
- treatments can be aggressive including medication, surgery and even
genetic engineering
magicoreligious view of health Answer: - control of health and illness by
supernatural forces
- disease occur as a result of "committing sins" or "going against God's
will"
- prayer to god or other religious figures used to cope with illness. evil
eye
holistic view of health Answer: - harmonious balance
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