PPN 302 WEEK 3 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS. VERIFIED 2025/2026.
Why discuss racism in CH nursing? - ANS · Racism is a fundamental cause of racial disparities,
health inequity, and differential illness outcomes
· Health promotion requires a critical understanding of issues of race, class, gender, sexuality
and their intersecting impacts on power, privilege, equity, and diverse groups' experiences with
health and illness
· Nurses have an ethical responsibility to care for diverse individuals, groups, and communities
race is... - ANS a) the socially constructed classification of human beings based on skin
colour/physical attributes, historical and geographic context
b) determined socially and psychologically, rather than biologically
c) often the basis upon which groups are formed, agency is attained, social roles are assigned,
and status is conferred
racism is... - ANS a) an "ideology of inferiority" used to justify discrimination
b) a comprehensive system of discrimination, restructuring opportunities, and assigning value (a
systematic/systemic process)
the protection of privilege (privilege of status, opportunity, and traditions
individual/interpersonal racism - ANS a) negative attitudes and behaviours that individuals
hold regarding others of a different race
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, b) microaggression, passive aggression, exclusion, bias, stereotype, prejudice
institutional racism - ANS a) policies, rules, and regulations of an organization or institution
that systematically reflect and produce differential treatment of racialized groups
b) underrepresentation, Bias in hiring and promotion, Education policies, Victim service policies,
Police brutality/State Violence, Surveillance,
systemic racism - ANS a) the way in which rooted inequalities in society operate to justify
differential access of goods, services, opportunities, & recognition of racialized groups
(structural racism)
internalized racism - ANS acceptance by members of the stigmatized races of negative
messages about their own abilities and intrinsic worth
colonialism - ANS Indian Act, Residential schools, Sixties Scoop, broken family bonds
slavery - ANS control, entrapment, brutality, dehumanization
slavery/colonization + SDOH = - ANS Health Inequities, Oppression, Poor Access, Poverty,
Poor health
manifestations of racism - ANS Bias, prejudice, microaggressions, exclusionary practices,
discrimination, underrepresentation, unfair hiring and promotion practice, police brutality/state
violence, surveillance,
a) Hypervigilance, self-doubt, fear
health inequity impacts of racism - ANS • Sustained high levels of poverty
• Poor access to education
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AND ANSWERS. VERIFIED 2025/2026.
Why discuss racism in CH nursing? - ANS · Racism is a fundamental cause of racial disparities,
health inequity, and differential illness outcomes
· Health promotion requires a critical understanding of issues of race, class, gender, sexuality
and their intersecting impacts on power, privilege, equity, and diverse groups' experiences with
health and illness
· Nurses have an ethical responsibility to care for diverse individuals, groups, and communities
race is... - ANS a) the socially constructed classification of human beings based on skin
colour/physical attributes, historical and geographic context
b) determined socially and psychologically, rather than biologically
c) often the basis upon which groups are formed, agency is attained, social roles are assigned,
and status is conferred
racism is... - ANS a) an "ideology of inferiority" used to justify discrimination
b) a comprehensive system of discrimination, restructuring opportunities, and assigning value (a
systematic/systemic process)
the protection of privilege (privilege of status, opportunity, and traditions
individual/interpersonal racism - ANS a) negative attitudes and behaviours that individuals
hold regarding others of a different race
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, b) microaggression, passive aggression, exclusion, bias, stereotype, prejudice
institutional racism - ANS a) policies, rules, and regulations of an organization or institution
that systematically reflect and produce differential treatment of racialized groups
b) underrepresentation, Bias in hiring and promotion, Education policies, Victim service policies,
Police brutality/State Violence, Surveillance,
systemic racism - ANS a) the way in which rooted inequalities in society operate to justify
differential access of goods, services, opportunities, & recognition of racialized groups
(structural racism)
internalized racism - ANS acceptance by members of the stigmatized races of negative
messages about their own abilities and intrinsic worth
colonialism - ANS Indian Act, Residential schools, Sixties Scoop, broken family bonds
slavery - ANS control, entrapment, brutality, dehumanization
slavery/colonization + SDOH = - ANS Health Inequities, Oppression, Poor Access, Poverty,
Poor health
manifestations of racism - ANS Bias, prejudice, microaggressions, exclusionary practices,
discrimination, underrepresentation, unfair hiring and promotion practice, police brutality/state
violence, surveillance,
a) Hypervigilance, self-doubt, fear
health inequity impacts of racism - ANS • Sustained high levels of poverty
• Poor access to education
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