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To enhance their cultural awareness, nursing students need to make an in-depth
self-examination of their own:
A. Motivation and commitment to caring.
B. Social, cultural, and biophysical factors.
C. Engagement in cross-cultural interactions.
D. Background, recognizing her biases and prejudices.
D. Background, recognizing her biases and prejudices. Cultural awareness is an in-
depth self-examination of one's own background, recognizing biases and prejudices and
assumptions about other people.
.During their clinical post-conference meeting, several nursing students were
discussing their patients with their instructor. One student from a middle-class
family shared that her patient was homeless. This is an example of caring for a
patient from a different:
A. Ethnicity.
B. Culture.
C. Heritage.
D. Religion.
B. Culture.
Culture is the context in which groups of people interpret and define their experiences
,relevant to life transitions. This includes events such as birth, illness, and dying. It is the
system of meanings by which people make sense of their experiences.
When asked to describe the differences between ethnicity and race, what should
the student nurse explain?
a. Ethnicity refers to a shared identity, whereas race is limited to biological
attributes.
b. Ethnicity and race are actually the same and are based in cultural norms.
c. Ethnicity can be understood only through an ethic worldview.
d. Race refers to a shared identity, whereas ethnicity is limited to biological
attributes.
ANS: A
Ethnicity refers to a shared identity related to social and cultural heritage such as
values, language, geographical space, and racial characteristics. Ethnicity is different
from race, which is limited to the common biological attributes shared by a group such
as skin color or blood type. In any intercultural encounter, there is an insider or native
perspective (ethic worldview) and an outsider's perspective (ethic worldview). Ethnicity
is best understood by those who are a part of that ethnicity and have an "emic"
worldview.
What is an example of a CLAS standard?
A. proving each patient with health care
B. Asking the patient his/her's race
C. Providing an interpreter for a deaf patient
D. Informing a patient your race is superior to theirs
, C
TRUE OR FALSE: Medicare is the federal and state funded medical program for
low-income population
FALSE. Medicaid
What causes health care costs to rise? (select all)
A. aging population
B. improved technology
C. the amount of hospitals per state
D. uninsured Americans
E. vitamins
A, B, D
A caregiver asks a nurse to explain respite care. How would the nurse respond?
A. "A service that allows time away for caregivers"
B. "A special service for the terminally ill and their family"
C. "Direct care provided to individuals in a long-term care facility"
D. "Living units for people without regular shelter"
A
A nurse cares for dying patients by providing physical, psychological, social, and
spiritual care for the patients, their families, and other loved ones. This service is
known as:
A. Respite care
B. Palliative care