NSG 411 Exam 2 2025/2026 Exam
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culture - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- design for living
- provides a set of norms and values that offer stability and security for members of
a society
race - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- biologically designated groups of people whose
distinguishing features such as skin color, are inherited
ethnic group - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- collection of people who have common origins
and a shared culture and identity
- may share a common geographic origin, race, language, religion, traditions,
values, and food preferences
ethnicity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- group who share cultural and/or physical
characteristics including one or more of the following: history, political system,
,religion, language, geographical origin, traditions, myths, behaviors, foods, genetic
similarities, and physical features
ethnocentrism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- bias that person's own culture is best and others
are wrong or inferior
- can block effective communication by creating biases and misconceptions about
human behavior
- this can cause serious damage to interpersonal relationships and interfere with the
effectiveness of nursing interventions
ethnorelativism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- seeing all behaviors in a cultural context
cultural humility - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- lifelong commitment to self evaluation and
self critique; ever-changing dependent upon what is going on with us and our
patients
- humble about our knowledge of patients' beliefs and values
- aware of our own assumptions and prejudices
- address power imbalance in the provider-patient relationship
culture shock - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- a state of anxiety that results from cross-cultural
misunderstanding and an inability to interact appropriately in the new context
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,- entering a new culture and anxiety and frustration occur due to unfamiliarity with
foods, language, expectations for dress, gestures and even facial expression may be
misunderstood
- nurses working in unfamiliar countries
cultural adaptation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- successful adjustment to cultural changes
- ex: using chopsticks
what are the 5 characteristics of culture - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- learned from others:
beliefs, dress, diet, language, expressions of emotions such as sadness, grief, joy
and happiness
- integrated system of customs and traits: social norms and religious beliefs
- shared: values- what is good, right, just and fair. ex: catnip tea for wellbeing,
working with community leaders and educating regarding amount
- mostly tacit (ingrained): mostly unexpressed at the unconscious level. ex: food
offered, touching, nurses must bring to conscious to develop awareness, patience
and acceptance of cultural differences when doing a cultural assessment
- dynamic: cultures change over time
biomedical view of health - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Western Society
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, - relies on scientific principles and sees diseases and injuries as life events
controlled by physical and biochemical processes
- treatments can be aggressive including medication, surgery and even genetic
engineering
magicoreligious view of health - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- control of health and illness by
supernatural forces
- disease occur as a result of "committing sins" or "going against God's will"
- prayer to god or other religious figures used to cope with illness. evil eye
holistic view of health - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- *harmonious balance*
- principles guiding natural laws to maintain order are disturbed, an imbalance in
the forces of nature is created, resulting in chaos and disease
- physical, mental, emotional and spiritual must be in balance
- use of specific foods, beverages, and herbs to balance hot or cold disease states
- Ex: chinese concept of yin and yang, in which forces of nature are balances
transcultural nursing principles - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. develop *cultural self
awareness*: recognizing own values, beliefs and practices that make up one's own
culture and becoming sensitive to the impact of one's culturally based responses
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Questions and Answers | 100% Solved
culture - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- design for living
- provides a set of norms and values that offer stability and security for members of
a society
race - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- biologically designated groups of people whose
distinguishing features such as skin color, are inherited
ethnic group - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- collection of people who have common origins
and a shared culture and identity
- may share a common geographic origin, race, language, religion, traditions,
values, and food preferences
ethnicity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- group who share cultural and/or physical
characteristics including one or more of the following: history, political system,
,religion, language, geographical origin, traditions, myths, behaviors, foods, genetic
similarities, and physical features
ethnocentrism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- bias that person's own culture is best and others
are wrong or inferior
- can block effective communication by creating biases and misconceptions about
human behavior
- this can cause serious damage to interpersonal relationships and interfere with the
effectiveness of nursing interventions
ethnorelativism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- seeing all behaviors in a cultural context
cultural humility - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- lifelong commitment to self evaluation and
self critique; ever-changing dependent upon what is going on with us and our
patients
- humble about our knowledge of patients' beliefs and values
- aware of our own assumptions and prejudices
- address power imbalance in the provider-patient relationship
culture shock - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- a state of anxiety that results from cross-cultural
misunderstanding and an inability to interact appropriately in the new context
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,- entering a new culture and anxiety and frustration occur due to unfamiliarity with
foods, language, expectations for dress, gestures and even facial expression may be
misunderstood
- nurses working in unfamiliar countries
cultural adaptation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- successful adjustment to cultural changes
- ex: using chopsticks
what are the 5 characteristics of culture - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- learned from others:
beliefs, dress, diet, language, expressions of emotions such as sadness, grief, joy
and happiness
- integrated system of customs and traits: social norms and religious beliefs
- shared: values- what is good, right, just and fair. ex: catnip tea for wellbeing,
working with community leaders and educating regarding amount
- mostly tacit (ingrained): mostly unexpressed at the unconscious level. ex: food
offered, touching, nurses must bring to conscious to develop awareness, patience
and acceptance of cultural differences when doing a cultural assessment
- dynamic: cultures change over time
biomedical view of health - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Western Society
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, - relies on scientific principles and sees diseases and injuries as life events
controlled by physical and biochemical processes
- treatments can be aggressive including medication, surgery and even genetic
engineering
magicoreligious view of health - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- control of health and illness by
supernatural forces
- disease occur as a result of "committing sins" or "going against God's will"
- prayer to god or other religious figures used to cope with illness. evil eye
holistic view of health - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- *harmonious balance*
- principles guiding natural laws to maintain order are disturbed, an imbalance in
the forces of nature is created, resulting in chaos and disease
- physical, mental, emotional and spiritual must be in balance
- use of specific foods, beverages, and herbs to balance hot or cold disease states
- Ex: chinese concept of yin and yang, in which forces of nature are balances
transcultural nursing principles - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. develop *cultural self
awareness*: recognizing own values, beliefs and practices that make up one's own
culture and becoming sensitive to the impact of one's culturally based responses
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