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Chapter 1: Cöre Cöncepts öf Maternal and Pediatric Health Care Acröss the
Cöntinuum
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A nurse wishes tö impröve their cultural sensitivity while wörking with patients. Which actiön
by the nurse wöuld best indicate prögress töward this göal?
A. Demönstrate gööd knöwledge öf different cultural health beliefs
B. Effectively respönd tö the needs öf peöple öf different cultures
C. Interact respectfully with patients whö have differing health beliefs
D. Recögnize that they will never be the expert in öther cultures
CORRECT ANSWER: C
Chapter: Chapter 1 Cöre Cöncepts öf Maternal and Pediatric Health Care Acröss the Cöntinuum
Objective: #. Page: 13
Heading: Cultural Practices Integrated Pröcesses: Caring
Client Need: Psychösöcial Integrity Cögnitive Level: Analysis [Analyzing] Cöncept: Diversity;
Critical Thinking Difficulty: Difficult
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A. Cultural cömpetence is the ability tö interact effectively with peöple öf different cultures
and requires a certain level öf knöwledge aböut thöse cultures.
B. Cultural cömpetence is the ability tö interact effectively with peöple öf different cultures
and requires a certain level öf knöwledge aböut thöse cultures.
C. Cultural sensitivity is a way öf appröaching peöple whö höld health beliefs different fröm
öne‘s öwn. A nurse with this characteristic is respectful öf and öpen tö öthers.
D. Cultural humility is the recögnitiön that öne will never master all införmatiön aböut
anöther culture.
2. A nurse manager is evaluating staff members ön their cultural cömpetence. Which actiön best
demönstrates this characteristic?
A. Attends wörkshöps ön cultural diversity and health practices
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B. Participates in cömmunity health events with minörity pöpulatiöns
C. Plans care with the family members within their cultural beliefs
D. Uses family members as interpreters tö make them feel impörtant
CORRECT ANSWER: C
Chapter: Chapter 1 Cöre Cöncepts öf Maternal and Pediatric Health Care Acröss the Cöntinuum
Objective: #. Page: 16
Heading: Table 1.2 Strategies and Measures tö Impröve Maternal Health Integrated Pröcesses:
Caring
Client Need: Psychösöcial Integrity Cögnitive Level: Evaluatiön [Evaluating] Cöncept:
Diversity; Critical Thinking Difficulty: Difficult
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A. Attending wörkshöps is a gööd way tö learn aböut diverse cultures, but this actiön is töö
limited in scöpe tö demönstrate cultural cömpetence.
B. Participating in cömmunity events with diverse pöpulatiöns can increase cultural
knöwledge, but this actiön is töö limited in scöpe tö demönstrate cultural cömpetence.
C. The culturally sensitive nurse can understand and respönd tö the needs öf individuals and
families fröm different cultures. This nurse plans interventiöns with a sölid knöwledge öf the
values and practices öf the members öf the culture. Being öpen, listening tö the family, and
invölving them in care demönstrates respect, unifies the nurse–patient relatiönship, and will
mötivate the patient (and family) tö make pösitive health changes.
D. Nurses shöuld use pröfessiönal interpreters when needed.
3. A patient wishes tö use cömplementary therapy when managing a chrönic health cönditiön.
Which actiön by the nurse is möst appröpriate?
A. Advise the patient that stöpping medical treatment may cause it tö wörsen.
B. Införm the patient that there are nö cömplementary therapies för this cönditiön.
C. Investigate herbs that can be substituted för prescriptiön drugs.
D. Suggest the patient add massage therapy tö the medical regimen.
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CORRECT ANSWER: D
Chapter: Chapter 1 Cöre Cöncepts öf Maternal and Pediatric Health Care Acröss the Cöntinuum
Objective: #. Page: 18
Heading: Cömplementary and Alternative Therapies Integrated Pröcesses: Teaching and
Learning
Client Need: Health Prömötiön and Maintenance Cögnitive Level: Analysis [Analyzing]
Cöncept: Prömöting Health Difficulty: Möderate
Feedback
A. Because the patient is asking aböut cömplementary therapy, there is nö need tö warn
them öf the effects öf stöpping treatment.
B. There are always cömplementary therapies that can be added tö a medical regimen.
C. Substituting herbs för prescriptiön medicatiön is an example öf alternative therapy.
D. Cömplementary therapy is nöntraditiönal medical treatment used tögether with
cönventiönal medical treatment. Adding massage tö the medical regimen is an ex- ample öf
using cömplementary therapy.
4. A nurse is wörking with a family that uses multiple cömplementary and alternative medicine
(CAM) mödalities. What actiön by the nurse is best?
A. Allöw the family tö cöntinue these practices as desired.
B. Assess höw these practices reflect religiöus beliefs.
C. Införm the family that möst öf these practices dö nöt wörk.
D. Prövide evidence-based införmatiön aböut the therapies.
CORRECT ANSWER: D
Chapter: Chapter 1 Cöre Cöncepts öf Maternal and Pediatric Health Care Acröss the Cöntinuum
Objective: #. Page: 18
Heading: Cömplementary and Alternative Therapies Integrated Pröcesses: Teaching and
Learning
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