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NURS 3036 Exam Questions And Answers
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Cultural competence - Answer✔Having awareness of ones own culture identity and views about
difference, and the ability to learn and build on the varying cultural and community norms
Ethnocentrism - Answer✔The belief that ones own cultural values, beliefs, and behaviours are
the best and preferred and most superior
Cultural bias - Answer✔Belief that values of a certain culture must guide the situation or
decision
Trends that increase the urgency to address culturally sensitive health care - Answer✔1.
Diversity is more visible and more frequently encountered
2. Widening gaps in health outcomes for various cultural groups
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Health Disparities - Answer✔The lower quality care provided to minority population even when
access related factors are controlled
What is the first step towards cultural competence - Answer✔Increasing awareness
Race - Answer✔The physical characteristics such as hair colour, skin colour, body proportions. It
denotes superiority and inferiority
Cultural racism - Answer✔Prejudice by those with power against another racial, religious, or
social group, demeaning their culture and at times attempting to change it, substitute it, or
eradicate it
Marginalization - Answer✔Process through which persons are peripheralized on the basis of
their identities, associations, experiences, and their environments
Marginalized groups in Canada - Answer✔Immigrants, Refugees, Aboriginal, Homeless
Minority - Answer✔Being disadvantaged, underprivileged, decimated against, exploited, or
disempowered in governing structures
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Ethnicity - Answer✔Refers to a social group having a common national or cultural tradition
Culture - Answer✔Any group of people where there are common values and ways of thinking
and acting that differ from those of another group
5 Essential elements of cultural competence - Answer✔1. Valuing cultural diversity
2. Having the capacity for cultural self-assessment
3. Being conscious of the dynamics when cultures interact
4. Having institutionalized cultural knowledge
5. Developing adaptations in service delivery that reflect an understanding of cultural diversity
The assumption of cultural competence - Answer✔That competence transforms knowledge and
understanding into effective health care responses and interventions
Levels of cultural competence - Answer✔1. Individual
2. Organizational
3. System level
4. Team level
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Individual level of cultural competence - Answer✔Underlying theme that health care providers
need to understand the issues and apply the knowledge in order to enhance their own practice
and help develop the profession
Organizational level of cultural competence - Answer✔Focuses on systems within the health
care delivery processes and emphasizes the need for organizational change by zeroing in on
organizational structure, governance, policy, and programs.
Goal of organizational level of cultural competence - Answer✔To increase access and capacity
System level of cultural competence - Answer✔Beyond health care organization. Focusses on
recruiting minority students to health professionals and examining curriculum content
Team level of cultural competence - Answer✔Creating an environment that promotes healthy
dialogue on differences by setting up mechanisms in the care process allowing the exchange of
diverse viewpoints and knowledge
Cultural blindness - Answer✔Don't think diversity matters (blind to it)
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NURS 3036 Exam Questions And Answers
|Latest 2025 | Guaranteed Pass
Cultural competence - Answer✔Having awareness of ones own culture identity and views about
difference, and the ability to learn and build on the varying cultural and community norms
Ethnocentrism - Answer✔The belief that ones own cultural values, beliefs, and behaviours are
the best and preferred and most superior
Cultural bias - Answer✔Belief that values of a certain culture must guide the situation or
decision
Trends that increase the urgency to address culturally sensitive health care - Answer✔1.
Diversity is more visible and more frequently encountered
2. Widening gaps in health outcomes for various cultural groups
1|Page
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Health Disparities - Answer✔The lower quality care provided to minority population even when
access related factors are controlled
What is the first step towards cultural competence - Answer✔Increasing awareness
Race - Answer✔The physical characteristics such as hair colour, skin colour, body proportions. It
denotes superiority and inferiority
Cultural racism - Answer✔Prejudice by those with power against another racial, religious, or
social group, demeaning their culture and at times attempting to change it, substitute it, or
eradicate it
Marginalization - Answer✔Process through which persons are peripheralized on the basis of
their identities, associations, experiences, and their environments
Marginalized groups in Canada - Answer✔Immigrants, Refugees, Aboriginal, Homeless
Minority - Answer✔Being disadvantaged, underprivileged, decimated against, exploited, or
disempowered in governing structures
2|Page
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Ethnicity - Answer✔Refers to a social group having a common national or cultural tradition
Culture - Answer✔Any group of people where there are common values and ways of thinking
and acting that differ from those of another group
5 Essential elements of cultural competence - Answer✔1. Valuing cultural diversity
2. Having the capacity for cultural self-assessment
3. Being conscious of the dynamics when cultures interact
4. Having institutionalized cultural knowledge
5. Developing adaptations in service delivery that reflect an understanding of cultural diversity
The assumption of cultural competence - Answer✔That competence transforms knowledge and
understanding into effective health care responses and interventions
Levels of cultural competence - Answer✔1. Individual
2. Organizational
3. System level
4. Team level
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Individual level of cultural competence - Answer✔Underlying theme that health care providers
need to understand the issues and apply the knowledge in order to enhance their own practice
and help develop the profession
Organizational level of cultural competence - Answer✔Focuses on systems within the health
care delivery processes and emphasizes the need for organizational change by zeroing in on
organizational structure, governance, policy, and programs.
Goal of organizational level of cultural competence - Answer✔To increase access and capacity
System level of cultural competence - Answer✔Beyond health care organization. Focusses on
recruiting minority students to health professionals and examining curriculum content
Team level of cultural competence - Answer✔Creating an environment that promotes healthy
dialogue on differences by setting up mechanisms in the care process allowing the exchange of
diverse viewpoints and knowledge
Cultural blindness - Answer✔Don't think diversity matters (blind to it)
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