nursing 590 exam 1 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

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ageism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-Discrimination based on age
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-ageism is a way of not allowing older persons to be individuals
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with unique ways of living their lives
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what impacts how society views aging? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔-industrial revolution (less economic productivity in older|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


adults)
-covid-19 pandemic (older adults are vulnerable and in need of
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protection)
-media influence (impacts how we view others)
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ways to combat ageism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-don't use
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"elderly": use "older person" or "older adult"
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implicit ageism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔thoughts, feelings and
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behaviors towards older people that exist and operate without
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conscious awareness or control, with the assumption that it forms
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the basis of most interactions with older adults
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problems with implicit ageism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔older
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people themselves may accept false explanation for ageist
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behavior

,behavior that is most vulnerable to implicit ageism - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔-failure to visit an older person in your free time
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(intergenerational contact may be one of the most effective ways |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


to reduce ageism)
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sageism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-assumes limited capacity on
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the older adult and a parental authority
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-assumes older adults cannot act on his/her own best interests
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-done when a person believes they are being protective to the
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older adult |\




-persons fail to ascertain the older person's perspective and
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wishes before action on the assumption
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self-stereotyping - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-ageism directed |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


against oneself |\




-some older adults believe in the stereotype and it becomes a
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self-fulfilling prophecy |\




-common language "I'm too old for..." |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




cultural perspectives of aging and ageism - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔-in the us, ageism has grown as a result of dominant cultural
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beliefs and trends |\ |\




-glorification of youth, socioeconomic competition, perception of
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individuals as autonomous and equating human worth with
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economic worth |\




physician attitudes towards older adults - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔physicians tend to have worse perceptions of older adults |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\

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older patients - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-30 years or older
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-in senior positions
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-postgraduate >10 years |\ |\




-previous experience in LTC environment
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-more frequent social contacts with older people
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what type of nurse has the best perception of older adults -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔nurses in long-term care settings
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king, roberts, and bowers study design - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-
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undergraduate nursing students |\ |\




-4 measurements points
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-measured attitudes towards older adults and preference to work
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with older adults
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results of the king, roberts, and bowers study design - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔-students had positive attitudes towards older
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adults and those attitudes increased over time
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-students initially preferred to work with younger adults and
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children and over time there was a shift. preference for working
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with infants and children decreased and preference to work with
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older adults increased
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-students consistently ranked working in long term care as least
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preferable