NUR 380 Exam
NUR 380 Exam 3 Questions and
Solutions 2025
The nurse is caring for a client who has traditional Native American beliefs about health
and illness. What is the most appropriate action by the nurse?
a. Avoid questions unless the client brings it up to prevent client anxiety.
b. Ask the client if it is important that cultural healers are contacted.
c. Explain the usual hospital routines for meals, care, and family visits.
d. Obtain information about the client's cultural beliefs from family members. - b. Ask the
client if it is important that cultural healers are contacted.
Clients from Portland are liberal, wear shorts in the winter with Birkenstock sandals,
drink coffee from Starbucks and eat at Voodoo donuts. This sentence is an example of
which term?
a. Ethnocentrism
b. Generalization
c. Stereotyping
d. Ethnicity - c. Stereotyping. Stereotyping is making an assumption about people.
True or False: The goal of helping clients achieve the same level of health as everyone
else is called "health equity." - False because health equity focuses on giving everyone
the opportunity to be healthy and remove barriers but may not be able to get all clients to
the same level.
What is the difference between acculturation and assimilation? -
What is cultural competence? What is cultural congruence? -
NUR 380 Exam
, NUR 380 Exam
A group of immigrants live in the same area of town and still speak their first language
primarily. They enjoy eating the foods from the country they immigrated from. The group
does enjoy going to the Portland Trail Blazers games and hanging out at coffee shops
which was not their habit before moving to Portland. Is this acculturation, assimilation, or
cultural congruence? - Acculturation
Acculturation - occurs when the minority culture changes but is still able to retain unique
cultural markers of language, food and customs
Assimilation - a two-way process, and the majority culture is changed as well as the
minority culture.
cultural congruence - treatment that is consistent with cultural beliefs and expectations
The client's family brings in magnets for the client to wear "to help them heal." The nurse
would know that this is a symbolic example to promote ____________ health.
Body/physical
Mind/mental
Spirit/spiritual - Body/physical
A client wears a necklace with a crystal to keep herself healthy. What type of health belief
is this? - Magico-religious
A client is dealing with stomach problems but begins to mend after forgiving a long-time
grudge and taking a med to decrease the stomach acid. What type of health belief is this?
- Holistic
A belief that health and illness are controlled by a series of physical and biochemical
processes that can be analyzed and manipulated by humans. - Scientific health belief or
biomedical health belief
NUR 380 Exam
NUR 380 Exam 3 Questions and
Solutions 2025
The nurse is caring for a client who has traditional Native American beliefs about health
and illness. What is the most appropriate action by the nurse?
a. Avoid questions unless the client brings it up to prevent client anxiety.
b. Ask the client if it is important that cultural healers are contacted.
c. Explain the usual hospital routines for meals, care, and family visits.
d. Obtain information about the client's cultural beliefs from family members. - b. Ask the
client if it is important that cultural healers are contacted.
Clients from Portland are liberal, wear shorts in the winter with Birkenstock sandals,
drink coffee from Starbucks and eat at Voodoo donuts. This sentence is an example of
which term?
a. Ethnocentrism
b. Generalization
c. Stereotyping
d. Ethnicity - c. Stereotyping. Stereotyping is making an assumption about people.
True or False: The goal of helping clients achieve the same level of health as everyone
else is called "health equity." - False because health equity focuses on giving everyone
the opportunity to be healthy and remove barriers but may not be able to get all clients to
the same level.
What is the difference between acculturation and assimilation? -
What is cultural competence? What is cultural congruence? -
NUR 380 Exam
, NUR 380 Exam
A group of immigrants live in the same area of town and still speak their first language
primarily. They enjoy eating the foods from the country they immigrated from. The group
does enjoy going to the Portland Trail Blazers games and hanging out at coffee shops
which was not their habit before moving to Portland. Is this acculturation, assimilation, or
cultural congruence? - Acculturation
Acculturation - occurs when the minority culture changes but is still able to retain unique
cultural markers of language, food and customs
Assimilation - a two-way process, and the majority culture is changed as well as the
minority culture.
cultural congruence - treatment that is consistent with cultural beliefs and expectations
The client's family brings in magnets for the client to wear "to help them heal." The nurse
would know that this is a symbolic example to promote ____________ health.
Body/physical
Mind/mental
Spirit/spiritual - Body/physical
A client wears a necklace with a crystal to keep herself healthy. What type of health belief
is this? - Magico-religious
A client is dealing with stomach problems but begins to mend after forgiving a long-time
grudge and taking a med to decrease the stomach acid. What type of health belief is this?
- Holistic
A belief that health and illness are controlled by a series of physical and biochemical
processes that can be analyzed and manipulated by humans. - Scientific health belief or
biomedical health belief
NUR 380 Exam
