JARVIS PHYSICAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT 2027
PAPER ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔acculturation - ✔✔process of social and psychological exchanges with encounters
between persons of different cultures, resulting in changes in their group
✔✔cultural and linguistic competence - ✔✔a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and
policies that come together in a system among professionals that enables work in cross-
cultural situations
✔✔cultural care - ✔✔professional health care that is culturally sensitive, appropriate,
and competent
✔✔culture - ✔✔the nonphysical attributes of a person-the thoughts, communications,
actions, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups
✔✔ethnicity - ✔✔a social group within the social system that claims to possess variable
traits such as a common geographic origin, migratory status, and religion
✔✔ethnocentrism - ✔✔tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all
other cultures and groups
✔✔folk healer - ✔✔lay healer in the person's culture apart from the biomedical or
scientific health care system
✔✔health or illness - ✔✔the balance or imbalance of the person, both within one's
being (physical, mental, and/or spiritual) and in the outside world (natural, communal,
and/or metaphysical)
✔✔religion - ✔✔an organized system of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and
purpose of the universe, as well as attendance at regular services
, ✔✔socialization - ✔✔the process of being raised within a culture and acquiring the
characteristics of that group
✔✔Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 - ✔✔a federal law that mandates that when
people with limited English proficiency (LEP) seek health care in health care settings
such as hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, daycare centers, and mental health centers,
services cannot be denied to them
✔✔values - ✔✔a desirable or undesirable state of affairs and a universal feature of all
cultures
✔✔ad hoc interpreter - ✔✔using a patient's family member, friend, or child as interpreter
for a patient with limited English proficiency (LEP)
✔✔animism - ✔✔imagining that inanimate objects (e.g., a blood pressure cuff) come
alive and have human characteristics
✔✔avoidance language - ✔✔the use of euphemisms to avoid reality or to hide feelings
✔✔clarification - ✔✔examiner's response used when the patient's word choice is
ambiguous or confusing
✔✔closed questions - ✔✔questions that ask for specific information and elicit a short,
one- or two- word answer, a "yes" or "no," or a forced choice
✔✔confrontation - ✔✔response in which examiner gives honest feedback about what
he or she has seen or felt after observing a certain patient action, feeling, or statement
✔✔distancing - ✔✔the use of impersonal speech to put space between one's self and a
threat
✔✔elderspeak - ✔✔infantilizing and demeaning language used by a health professional
when speaking to an older adult
✔✔electronic health recording - ✔✔direct computer entry of a patient's health record
while in the patient's presence
✔✔empathy - ✔✔viewing the world from the other person's inner frame of reference
while remaining yourself; recognizing and accepting the other person's feelings without
criticism
✔✔ethnocentrism - ✔✔the tendency to view your own way of life as the most desirable,
acceptable, or best and to act in a superior manner to another culture's way of life
PAPER ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔acculturation - ✔✔process of social and psychological exchanges with encounters
between persons of different cultures, resulting in changes in their group
✔✔cultural and linguistic competence - ✔✔a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and
policies that come together in a system among professionals that enables work in cross-
cultural situations
✔✔cultural care - ✔✔professional health care that is culturally sensitive, appropriate,
and competent
✔✔culture - ✔✔the nonphysical attributes of a person-the thoughts, communications,
actions, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups
✔✔ethnicity - ✔✔a social group within the social system that claims to possess variable
traits such as a common geographic origin, migratory status, and religion
✔✔ethnocentrism - ✔✔tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all
other cultures and groups
✔✔folk healer - ✔✔lay healer in the person's culture apart from the biomedical or
scientific health care system
✔✔health or illness - ✔✔the balance or imbalance of the person, both within one's
being (physical, mental, and/or spiritual) and in the outside world (natural, communal,
and/or metaphysical)
✔✔religion - ✔✔an organized system of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and
purpose of the universe, as well as attendance at regular services
, ✔✔socialization - ✔✔the process of being raised within a culture and acquiring the
characteristics of that group
✔✔Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 - ✔✔a federal law that mandates that when
people with limited English proficiency (LEP) seek health care in health care settings
such as hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, daycare centers, and mental health centers,
services cannot be denied to them
✔✔values - ✔✔a desirable or undesirable state of affairs and a universal feature of all
cultures
✔✔ad hoc interpreter - ✔✔using a patient's family member, friend, or child as interpreter
for a patient with limited English proficiency (LEP)
✔✔animism - ✔✔imagining that inanimate objects (e.g., a blood pressure cuff) come
alive and have human characteristics
✔✔avoidance language - ✔✔the use of euphemisms to avoid reality or to hide feelings
✔✔clarification - ✔✔examiner's response used when the patient's word choice is
ambiguous or confusing
✔✔closed questions - ✔✔questions that ask for specific information and elicit a short,
one- or two- word answer, a "yes" or "no," or a forced choice
✔✔confrontation - ✔✔response in which examiner gives honest feedback about what
he or she has seen or felt after observing a certain patient action, feeling, or statement
✔✔distancing - ✔✔the use of impersonal speech to put space between one's self and a
threat
✔✔elderspeak - ✔✔infantilizing and demeaning language used by a health professional
when speaking to an older adult
✔✔electronic health recording - ✔✔direct computer entry of a patient's health record
while in the patient's presence
✔✔empathy - ✔✔viewing the world from the other person's inner frame of reference
while remaining yourself; recognizing and accepting the other person's feelings without
criticism
✔✔ethnocentrism - ✔✔the tendency to view your own way of life as the most desirable,
acceptable, or best and to act in a superior manner to another culture's way of life
