RNSG 1430 Diversity questions with verified answers
•All people are biased. Examples include Ans✓✓✓ •Stereotyping people
•Tendency to act, think, or feel in a certain way toward other people
•Bias and prejudice affects how individuals understand and treat others.
•Bias and prejudice affects health care.
•Brojos/Brujas Ans✓✓✓ •Wizards and witches
•Treat sorcery related illnesses
•Common reasons victims of sex trafficking visit health care facilities Ans✓✓✓
•STI
•Pregnancy testing
•Abortion procedures
•Factors affecting spirituality include Ans✓✓✓ •Acute illness
•Chronic illness
•Terminal illness
Near death experience
•Non-verbal communications Ans✓✓✓ •Eye contact
•Facial expressions
•Rough, spatial distancing
•Acceptable greetings
,•Questions to ask during cultural assessment: Ans✓✓✓ •What do you think has
caused your problem?
•Why do you think it started when it did?
•How severe is your illness? Will it have a long or short course?
•What kind of treatment do you think you should receive?
•What are the most important results you hope to get from this treatment?
•What are the chief problems your illness has caused for you?
•What do you fear most about your illness?
•Views toward alternate lifestyles Ans✓✓✓ •Single parenting
•Sexual orientation
•Childless marriages
•Divorce
Acculturation Ans✓✓✓ Process of acquiring new attitudes, role, customs, or
behaviors
Acute care Ans✓✓✓ •Support systems
•Diet therapies
•Supporting rituals
Agnostic Ans✓✓✓ one who believes that there is no known ultimate reality
Assimilation Ans✓✓✓ Process by which a person gives up his or her original
identity by becoming absorbed into the dominant cultural group
, Barriers to Cultural Sensitivity Ans✓✓✓ Stereotypes
Prejudice
Discrimination
Hidden bias
BELIEF Ans✓✓✓ belief,
ethics,
lifestyle,
involvement, education,
future events
Bias Ans✓✓✓ Tendency to act, think, or feel in a certain way toward other
people. All people are biased, stereotyping people
Biculturalism Ans✓✓✓ Dual pattern of identification
Clinical Management (continued) Ans✓✓✓ •Make sure the patient understands
by having them explain it themselves.
•Ask the interpreter to repeat exactly what was said.
•Personal information may be closely guarded and difficult to obtain.
•Patient often request or bring a specific interpreter to the clinic.
•In some cultures, it may not be appropriate to suggest making a will for dying
patients or patients with terminal illnesses; this is the cultural equivalent of
wishing death on a patient.
•All people are biased. Examples include Ans✓✓✓ •Stereotyping people
•Tendency to act, think, or feel in a certain way toward other people
•Bias and prejudice affects how individuals understand and treat others.
•Bias and prejudice affects health care.
•Brojos/Brujas Ans✓✓✓ •Wizards and witches
•Treat sorcery related illnesses
•Common reasons victims of sex trafficking visit health care facilities Ans✓✓✓
•STI
•Pregnancy testing
•Abortion procedures
•Factors affecting spirituality include Ans✓✓✓ •Acute illness
•Chronic illness
•Terminal illness
Near death experience
•Non-verbal communications Ans✓✓✓ •Eye contact
•Facial expressions
•Rough, spatial distancing
•Acceptable greetings
,•Questions to ask during cultural assessment: Ans✓✓✓ •What do you think has
caused your problem?
•Why do you think it started when it did?
•How severe is your illness? Will it have a long or short course?
•What kind of treatment do you think you should receive?
•What are the most important results you hope to get from this treatment?
•What are the chief problems your illness has caused for you?
•What do you fear most about your illness?
•Views toward alternate lifestyles Ans✓✓✓ •Single parenting
•Sexual orientation
•Childless marriages
•Divorce
Acculturation Ans✓✓✓ Process of acquiring new attitudes, role, customs, or
behaviors
Acute care Ans✓✓✓ •Support systems
•Diet therapies
•Supporting rituals
Agnostic Ans✓✓✓ one who believes that there is no known ultimate reality
Assimilation Ans✓✓✓ Process by which a person gives up his or her original
identity by becoming absorbed into the dominant cultural group
, Barriers to Cultural Sensitivity Ans✓✓✓ Stereotypes
Prejudice
Discrimination
Hidden bias
BELIEF Ans✓✓✓ belief,
ethics,
lifestyle,
involvement, education,
future events
Bias Ans✓✓✓ Tendency to act, think, or feel in a certain way toward other
people. All people are biased, stereotyping people
Biculturalism Ans✓✓✓ Dual pattern of identification
Clinical Management (continued) Ans✓✓✓ •Make sure the patient understands
by having them explain it themselves.
•Ask the interpreter to repeat exactly what was said.
•Personal information may be closely guarded and difficult to obtain.
•Patient often request or bring a specific interpreter to the clinic.
•In some cultures, it may not be appropriate to suggest making a will for dying
patients or patients with terminal illnesses; this is the cultural equivalent of
wishing death on a patient.
