NURS 2300 FINAL EXAM 2025-2026
|ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS UTA
What is cultural competence?
Guides the nurse in understanding behaviors and planning appropriate approaches
to patient needs.
This understanding informs and expands the education and practices of a culturally
competent nurse.
Definition of cultural competence
Having an awareness of one's own cultural identity and views about differences,
and the ability to learn and build on the varying cultural and community norms of
patients and their families.
It is the ability to understand the within-group differences that make each patient
unique, while celebrating the between-group variations.
,Nursing behaviors and attitudes demonstrated by a culturally competent nurse (1)
Refrain from stereotyping (one size does not fit all); individual planning is always
the best basis for care
Care that is NOT individualized can result in non-adherence to treatment plans,
dissatisfaction with care, and suboptimal outcomes
Nursing behaviors and attitudes demonstrated by a culturally competent nurse (2)
A nurse who identifies how personal beliefs and expectations can influence care is
better able to recognize and deal with any prejudices that may impede patient care
Nursing behaviors and attitudes demonstrated by a culturally competent nurse (3)
Cultural assessment:
Helps identify beliefs, values, and health practice that may help or hinder nursing
interventions
Asking a patient about their preferences. What they think or believe about their
illness, their family structure, who providers should talk to in making decisions,
and what the illness and its treatment means to them
,Nursing behaviors and attitudes demonstrated by a culturally competent nurse (4)
They take cultural differences into consideration, are aware of potential "trouble
spots" that can occur, usually interpret patient behavior accurately, and recognize
problems that need to be managed.
Cultural norms must be included in the plan of care to prevent conflicts between
nursing goals and patient/family goals
Nursing behaviors and attitudes demonstrated by a cultrually competent nurse (5)
Being knowledgable about other cultures promotes feelings of respect and
enhances understanding of attitudes, behaviors, and the impact of illness
Quality and Culture
Review the quality and culture quiz/answers (handout)
How does culture affect personal beliefs about health and illness? (1)
Lack of understanding can create barriers that impede nursing care.
When nurses work w/patients from cultures different from their own they lack
familiar guidelines for predicting behavior, which causes anxiety, frustration, and
feelings of distrust
, How does culture affect personal beliefs about health and illness? (2)
Stereotyping, communication difficulties, and misperceptions about personal
space, differing values, and role expectations, ethnopharmacologic considerations,
and ethnocentrism
Stereotyping
In an effort to predict behavior, nurses may stereotype or make prejudgements
about patients from different cultures.
One size does not fit all. They are unconscious of their own innate values/beliefs
and assume that all people are basically alike, that is, that all people share their
values and beliefs
Ethnocentrism
Nurses respond to sick people based not only on their formal education, but also on
their own socialization and culture. All persons can be unaware of their own biases
and tend to be ethnocentric (inclination to view one's own cultural group as the
standard by which to judge the value of other cultural groups)
|ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS UTA
What is cultural competence?
Guides the nurse in understanding behaviors and planning appropriate approaches
to patient needs.
This understanding informs and expands the education and practices of a culturally
competent nurse.
Definition of cultural competence
Having an awareness of one's own cultural identity and views about differences,
and the ability to learn and build on the varying cultural and community norms of
patients and their families.
It is the ability to understand the within-group differences that make each patient
unique, while celebrating the between-group variations.
,Nursing behaviors and attitudes demonstrated by a culturally competent nurse (1)
Refrain from stereotyping (one size does not fit all); individual planning is always
the best basis for care
Care that is NOT individualized can result in non-adherence to treatment plans,
dissatisfaction with care, and suboptimal outcomes
Nursing behaviors and attitudes demonstrated by a culturally competent nurse (2)
A nurse who identifies how personal beliefs and expectations can influence care is
better able to recognize and deal with any prejudices that may impede patient care
Nursing behaviors and attitudes demonstrated by a culturally competent nurse (3)
Cultural assessment:
Helps identify beliefs, values, and health practice that may help or hinder nursing
interventions
Asking a patient about their preferences. What they think or believe about their
illness, their family structure, who providers should talk to in making decisions,
and what the illness and its treatment means to them
,Nursing behaviors and attitudes demonstrated by a culturally competent nurse (4)
They take cultural differences into consideration, are aware of potential "trouble
spots" that can occur, usually interpret patient behavior accurately, and recognize
problems that need to be managed.
Cultural norms must be included in the plan of care to prevent conflicts between
nursing goals and patient/family goals
Nursing behaviors and attitudes demonstrated by a cultrually competent nurse (5)
Being knowledgable about other cultures promotes feelings of respect and
enhances understanding of attitudes, behaviors, and the impact of illness
Quality and Culture
Review the quality and culture quiz/answers (handout)
How does culture affect personal beliefs about health and illness? (1)
Lack of understanding can create barriers that impede nursing care.
When nurses work w/patients from cultures different from their own they lack
familiar guidelines for predicting behavior, which causes anxiety, frustration, and
feelings of distrust
, How does culture affect personal beliefs about health and illness? (2)
Stereotyping, communication difficulties, and misperceptions about personal
space, differing values, and role expectations, ethnopharmacologic considerations,
and ethnocentrism
Stereotyping
In an effort to predict behavior, nurses may stereotype or make prejudgements
about patients from different cultures.
One size does not fit all. They are unconscious of their own innate values/beliefs
and assume that all people are basically alike, that is, that all people share their
values and beliefs
Ethnocentrism
Nurses respond to sick people based not only on their formal education, but also on
their own socialization and culture. All persons can be unaware of their own biases
and tend to be ethnocentric (inclination to view one's own cultural group as the
standard by which to judge the value of other cultural groups)
