Spirituality ANS: An experience, or belief regarding a higher power.
Is it a professional mandate to provide spiritual care? ANS: Yes
FICA tool ANS: Used in spiritual assessment
F in FICA tool ANS: Faith or beliefs
What are you spiritual beliefs?
I in FICA tool ANS: Important and Influence
Is faith and spirituality important for you?
C in FICA tool ANS: Community
Are you connected with a faith center in a community?
A in FICA tool ANS: Address
What support/guidance can health care provide to support your spiritual beliefs?
5 components of cultural competence ANS: 1. Cultural awareness
,2. Cultural knowledge
3. Cultural skills
4. Cultural encounters
5. Cultural desire
Culturally competence ANS: Nurse must be culturally sensitive, culturally appropriate, and culturally
competent to meet the healthcare needs of each person.
Health disparities ANS: preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or
opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations
Culturally congruent care ANS: Care based on an individuals cultural beliefs, practices, and values
Marginalized groups ANS: More likely to have poor health outcomes and die earlier. They experience
discrimination and exclusion because of unequal power relationships across economic, political, social
and cultural dimensions.
(minorities, LBGTQ, etc)
Intersectionality ANS: a research and policy model used to study the complexities of people's lives and
experiences
Cultural awareness ANS: conducting a self examination of ones own biases toward other cultures.
Cultural knowledge ANS: Nurse obtains educational base about other culturally diverse groups
Cultural skill ANS: ability to perform a cultural assessment in a sensitive way
, Cultural encounter ANS: encourages nurses to directly engage in interactions with patients from
culturally diverse backgrounds
Cultural desire ANS: motivation to want to and not "have to" become culturally aware.
Fatigue ANS: Subjective lack of physical/mental energy
Stages of fatigue ANS: No fatigue--fully functional
Mild fatigue
Moderate fatigue
Exhaustion--impairs functional status
How long must symptoms be prominent before they are recognized as a health problem? ANS: 2 weeks
Can fatigue be a normal physiological process? ANS: Yes
Physiological fatigue ANS: Caused by imbalance between exercise after activity, sleep, and diet.
*normal*
Secondary/Pathological fatigue ANS: Associated with chronic disease (anemia, cancer, RA, lupus)
Mental and physical
*not normal*