OpenStax Medical Surgical Test Bank
Chapter 2: Culturally Competent Care
OpenStax Medical-Surgical Nursing Test
Bank
Chapter 2: Culturally Competent Care
Review Questions
Multiple Choice
1. What concept enables nurses to be aware of differences among people from varied
backgrounds and understand how these differences affect each patient’s beliefs, behaviors,
and experiences?
A. bias
B. ethnicity
C. cultural sensitivity *
D. stereotyping
LO: 02.1.1
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember; Understand
AACN: 1.1a
2. What are the characteristics, beliefs, values, customs, traditions, behaviors, history, and
artifacts shared by a particular group of people?
A. ethnicity
B. culture *
C. race
D. stereotype
LO: 02.1.1
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember; Understand
AACN: 1.1a
3. What is a widely held, oversimplified assumption about a particular group of people?
A. ethnicity
B. culture
C. race
D. stereotype *
LO: 02.1.1
Difficulty: Easy
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Blooms: Remember; Understand
AACN: 1.1a
4. Your clinic includes a staff member who speaks several languages and provides
interpretation services when patients speak little or no English. This person also pays
attention to patients’ body language and strives to help you and others on the clinic’s staff
understand the sociocultural differences affecting each patient. What process is this staff
member using?
A. cultural brokering *
B. cultural competence
C. cultural humility
D. cultural sensitivity
LO: 02.1.2
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply; Analyze; Evaluate
AACN: 1.1b
5. You meet a new patient and ask several questions intended to help you understand more
about the patient’s personal background, particularly their religious beliefs and values
regarding healthcare. What process are you using?
A. cultural sensitivity
B. cultural brokering
C. cultural competence
D. cultural assessment *
LO: 02.2.1
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply
AACN: 1.1b
6. Your patient is Native American and relies extensively on nonverbal cues to communicate.
What is your patient’s preferred communication style?
A. direct
B. dialect
C. indirect *
D. slang
LO: 02.2.1
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply
AACN: 1.1a
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7. Your patient is a high school student who communicates using informal phrases that you
find confusing. What is your patient’s communication style?
A. direct
B. dialect
C. indirect
D. slang *
LO: 02.2.1
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply
AACN: 1.1a
8. Your patient has a nervous system disorder that was inherited from their mother. What
cultural concept has impacted your patient?
A. environmental control
B. biological variation *
C. social organization
D. social determinants of health
LO: 02.2.1
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply
AACN: 1.1b
9. One of your patients owns a car and anytime she needs healthcare, she simply drives about
a mile to the clinic. Your other patient rides the bus and since she lives several blocks from
the nearest bus stop, she sometimes misses the bus and therefore misses her appointments
at the clinic. What is this an example of?
A. health disparity *
B. environmental control
C. health equity
D. social organization
LO: 02.3.1
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply; Analyze; Evaluate
AACN: 1.1b
10. What is the condition in which all individuals in a community have fair opportunities to
achieve optimal health and receive appropriate, high-quality care regardless of their social
or demographic characteristics?
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Chapter 2: Culturally Competent Care
OpenStax Medical-Surgical Nursing Test
Bank
Chapter 2: Culturally Competent Care
Review Questions
Multiple Choice
1. What concept enables nurses to be aware of differences among people from varied
backgrounds and understand how these differences affect each patient’s beliefs, behaviors,
and experiences?
A. bias
B. ethnicity
C. cultural sensitivity *
D. stereotyping
LO: 02.1.1
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember; Understand
AACN: 1.1a
2. What are the characteristics, beliefs, values, customs, traditions, behaviors, history, and
artifacts shared by a particular group of people?
A. ethnicity
B. culture *
C. race
D. stereotype
LO: 02.1.1
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember; Understand
AACN: 1.1a
3. What is a widely held, oversimplified assumption about a particular group of people?
A. ethnicity
B. culture
C. race
D. stereotype *
LO: 02.1.1
Difficulty: Easy
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Blooms: Remember; Understand
AACN: 1.1a
4. Your clinic includes a staff member who speaks several languages and provides
interpretation services when patients speak little or no English. This person also pays
attention to patients’ body language and strives to help you and others on the clinic’s staff
understand the sociocultural differences affecting each patient. What process is this staff
member using?
A. cultural brokering *
B. cultural competence
C. cultural humility
D. cultural sensitivity
LO: 02.1.2
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply; Analyze; Evaluate
AACN: 1.1b
5. You meet a new patient and ask several questions intended to help you understand more
about the patient’s personal background, particularly their religious beliefs and values
regarding healthcare. What process are you using?
A. cultural sensitivity
B. cultural brokering
C. cultural competence
D. cultural assessment *
LO: 02.2.1
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply
AACN: 1.1b
6. Your patient is Native American and relies extensively on nonverbal cues to communicate.
What is your patient’s preferred communication style?
A. direct
B. dialect
C. indirect *
D. slang
LO: 02.2.1
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply
AACN: 1.1a
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7. Your patient is a high school student who communicates using informal phrases that you
find confusing. What is your patient’s communication style?
A. direct
B. dialect
C. indirect
D. slang *
LO: 02.2.1
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply
AACN: 1.1a
8. Your patient has a nervous system disorder that was inherited from their mother. What
cultural concept has impacted your patient?
A. environmental control
B. biological variation *
C. social organization
D. social determinants of health
LO: 02.2.1
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply
AACN: 1.1b
9. One of your patients owns a car and anytime she needs healthcare, she simply drives about
a mile to the clinic. Your other patient rides the bus and since she lives several blocks from
the nearest bus stop, she sometimes misses the bus and therefore misses her appointments
at the clinic. What is this an example of?
A. health disparity *
B. environmental control
C. health equity
D. social organization
LO: 02.3.1
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply; Analyze; Evaluate
AACN: 1.1b
10. What is the condition in which all individuals in a community have fair opportunities to
achieve optimal health and receive appropriate, high-quality care regardless of their social
or demographic characteristics?
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