Questions with Verified Answers
Accuracy
Accomodation - Answer to create an environment that accommodates health practice and ritual
from other cultures within a plan of care
acculturation - Answer degree to which an individual from one culture has given up the traits of
that culture and adopted the traits of the dominant culture in which they now reside
antigenetic drift - Answer changes that occur within virus's ribonucleic acid that changes the virus
-typically create seasonal changes/new strains of a virus
Article Angelini (2017) and Kurth (2017): "Call to Action" elements/content? - Answer Decrease
the causative agents and increase our adaptations and resiliency
-nurses increase awareness of the issue and address health care needs of at-risk populations
Article Angelini (2017) and Kurth (2017): Health effects of climate change? - Answer spontaneous
abortion
preterm labor
low birth weight
increased morbidity and mortality
dehydration
malnutrition
vector-borne illness
assimilation - Answer the social, economic and political integration of a cultural group into a
mainstream society to which it may have emigrated
beneficency - Answer to do good
CLAS - Answer Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate Services
cultural awareness - Answer An in-depth self-examination of one's own background, recognizing
biases, prejudices, and assumptions about other people
cultural competence - Answer respect for and understanding of diverse ethnic and cultural
groups, their histories, traditions, beliefs, and value systems.
, developmental process in which one achieves increased levels of awareness, knowledge, and skills along
a continuum
Cultural competence in the delivery of healthcare services (practice model) - Answer Five
Constructs
1. cultural awareness
2. cultural humility
3. cultural knowledge
4. cultural skill
5. cultural desire
cultural humility - Answer reflective process
-understanding ones biases and privileges, managing power imbalances, maintaining a stance that is
open to others in relation to aspects of their cultural identity that are important to them.
Cultural nursing assessment - Answer systematic identification and documentation of culural care
beliefs, meaning, values, symbols, and practices of individuals/groups
-using holistic perspective
Data sources used to assess determinants of health? - Answer HP2030 uses more than 80 data
systems:
-National censuses of events (like the National Vital Statistics System)
-Nationally representative sample surveys (like the National Health Interview Survey)
-Other valid and reliable data sources (like the State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation System)
Surveillance, surveys, assessments, reports
disaster epidemiology - Answer The use of epidemiology to assess the short- and long-term
adverse health effects of disasters and to predict consequences of future disasters.
disparities - Answer differences
Epidemiological triangle - Answer agent, host, environment
ethics - Answer moral principles
ethnicity - Answer the aggregate of cultural practices, social influences, religious pursuits, and
racial characteristics shaping the distintive identity of community
food desert - Answer An area characterized by a lack of affordable, fresh and nutritious food.