Rasmussen College MDC 1 Exam 1
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Desire to understand and be sensitive to feelings, beliefs and situation. -
✔✔Empathy
This is the expression of value and flexibility to meet the patients' needs based
on their unique situation. - ✔✔Respect
Ability to respond truthfully. - ✔✔Genuineness
Ability to respond using specific terms - ✔✔Concreteness
This is used to clarify the message received or decoding the actual meaning. -
✔✔Confrontation
Be aware of cultural preferences related to eye contact, space, and touch. -
✔✔Therapeutic communication within cultures
Socially transmitted behaviors, arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and other
characteristics that guide decision making. - ✔✔Culture
- Provide identity and sense of belonging
- Consist of common beliefs & practices
- Material (clothing, art) and non-material (language, beliefs).
- Dynamic & adaptive
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,- Complex
- Diverse
- Influences thinking and activities - ✔✔Culture Characteristics
Member share a common social & cultural heritage (race, physical
chrematistics) - ✔✔Ethnicity
Learning how to become a member of a society or a group. - ✔✔Socialization
An individual assumes the characteristics of a culture they just immigrated to. -
✔✔Acculturation
A new member learn and take essential values, beliefs and behaviors of the
dominant culture gradually. - ✔✔Assimilation
Considering everyone are the same under their racial or ethnic group. -
✔✔Stereotype
Something recurrent that assumes that everyone has under the same racial or
ethical group. - ✔✔Archetype
Initiative to provide care to everyone with the goal to eliminate any disparities
in care. - ✔✔Culture competent care
Perception of own-ability to control nature or environment. - ✔✔Environmental
care
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, Are the genetics and physical aspects that makes use different. - ✔✔Biological
variations
Individual perception of health - ✔✔Health belief system
- Scientific (Hospitals, clinics, medications, etc)
o Magico-religious= "alternative or indigenous" (supernatural forces of healing,
rituals).
o Holistic= need for harmony and balance of the body with nature (yoga,
meditation, etc.) - ✔✔3 major health beliefs
- Monitor labs (albumin & pre-albumin determine malnutrition)
- Ensure proper intake of proteins (Proteins=Building blocks)
- Promote proper hygiene keeping the skin dry and clean
- Inspect skin daily
- Use moisturizers
- Encourage repositions every 1 to 2 hours, especially for chair or bed bound
patients
- Apply pressure redistribution surfaces (mattresses, overlay, or gel pads)
- Use an EB screening tools (Braden scale, Norton, etc)
- Involved the patient and family in the education and care
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Questions and Answers 100% Solved
Desire to understand and be sensitive to feelings, beliefs and situation. -
✔✔Empathy
This is the expression of value and flexibility to meet the patients' needs based
on their unique situation. - ✔✔Respect
Ability to respond truthfully. - ✔✔Genuineness
Ability to respond using specific terms - ✔✔Concreteness
This is used to clarify the message received or decoding the actual meaning. -
✔✔Confrontation
Be aware of cultural preferences related to eye contact, space, and touch. -
✔✔Therapeutic communication within cultures
Socially transmitted behaviors, arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and other
characteristics that guide decision making. - ✔✔Culture
- Provide identity and sense of belonging
- Consist of common beliefs & practices
- Material (clothing, art) and non-material (language, beliefs).
- Dynamic & adaptive
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,- Complex
- Diverse
- Influences thinking and activities - ✔✔Culture Characteristics
Member share a common social & cultural heritage (race, physical
chrematistics) - ✔✔Ethnicity
Learning how to become a member of a society or a group. - ✔✔Socialization
An individual assumes the characteristics of a culture they just immigrated to. -
✔✔Acculturation
A new member learn and take essential values, beliefs and behaviors of the
dominant culture gradually. - ✔✔Assimilation
Considering everyone are the same under their racial or ethnic group. -
✔✔Stereotype
Something recurrent that assumes that everyone has under the same racial or
ethical group. - ✔✔Archetype
Initiative to provide care to everyone with the goal to eliminate any disparities
in care. - ✔✔Culture competent care
Perception of own-ability to control nature or environment. - ✔✔Environmental
care
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, Are the genetics and physical aspects that makes use different. - ✔✔Biological
variations
Individual perception of health - ✔✔Health belief system
- Scientific (Hospitals, clinics, medications, etc)
o Magico-religious= "alternative or indigenous" (supernatural forces of healing,
rituals).
o Holistic= need for harmony and balance of the body with nature (yoga,
meditation, etc.) - ✔✔3 major health beliefs
- Monitor labs (albumin & pre-albumin determine malnutrition)
- Ensure proper intake of proteins (Proteins=Building blocks)
- Promote proper hygiene keeping the skin dry and clean
- Inspect skin daily
- Use moisturizers
- Encourage repositions every 1 to 2 hours, especially for chair or bed bound
patients
- Apply pressure redistribution surfaces (mattresses, overlay, or gel pads)
- Use an EB screening tools (Braden scale, Norton, etc)
- Involved the patient and family in the education and care
3|Page
©KERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
