ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What are cultural actions based on? - CORRECT ANSWER - on implicit cues rather than
written or spoken rules.
What makes it hard to generalize from one cultural situation to the next? - CORRECT
ANSWER - cultural influences
What is cultrally competent care? - CORRECT ANSWER - Delivery of health care with
skill, knowledge, and sensitivity to cultural factors.
According to the National Center for Cultural Competency what continuum level refers to the
unintentional practices that may be harmful to patients due to ignorance? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Cultrual incapacity.
What are Betancourt's componets for developing cultural sensitivity? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Open mindedness, awareness of one's own cultural values, understanding of
differences, knowledge, adaption skills.
What is stereotyping? - CORRECT ANSWER - Consigning cultural attributes to a group
of people based on assumptions, opinions, or attitudes.
What happens in the precompetence stage of cultural competency development? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Providing translators, developing health education aimed at specific cultural
groups, and creating programs that address diverse groups and acces to care.
What is Xenophobia? - CORRECT ANSWER - An extreme form of ethnocentrism, and an
inherent fear of cultural differences which often leads people to bolster their security in their own
values by demeaning the beliefs and traditions of others. This usally takes form of prejudice or
racist.
, In Madeleine Leininger three modes of intervention related to clinical decision making that
focuses on cultural practices which mode refers to the professional actions that assist in making
changes, but not discarding practices that may be harmful? - CORRECT ANSWER -
cultural repatterning and restructuring
What is an example of how knoledge was passed on by oral means through stories, poetry and
parables? - CORRECT ANSWER - Cultural wisdom?
what is the meaning of matriachal - CORRECT ANSWER - when the mother of the family
holds the primary power position
what is the meaning of patriarchal? - CORRECT ANSWER - When the father figure of the
family holds the primary power position
Give examples of cultures that adhere to matriachal and patriarchal - CORRECT
ANSWER - African american have strong matriacral family units, while Asian Americans
have strong patriarchal family units
How do some Native Americans feel about healthcare workers outsideof their culture? -
CORRECT ANSWER - They have a huge mistrust
How has the electronic culture impacted the beliefs, values, and behaviors of contemporary
society and what challenge does this present to healthcare providers? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Helping patients interpret information and make appropriate choices
Define ethics - CORRECT ANSWER - moral principles that govern a person's behavior or
the conducting of an activity.
Who does the Code of Ethics for nursing publiched by the American Heart Association act as a
guide for? - CORRECT ANSWER - Nurses