Aggregate Correct Answers - A collection of people who share
one or more personal or environmental characteristics
Describe attitudes of Americans toward immigrants. Correct
Answers Immigrants recently became increasingly controversial
Describe ideal primary health? Correct Answers - Universally
accessible care to individuals and families in a community;
encourages self-care and self-management in health and the
social welfare of daily life
How can a nurse avoid stereotyping and cultural blindness?
Correct Answers - When working with immigrant populations,
consider how your own background, beliefs, and knowledge
may be significantly different from those of the people receiving
care
Providers lack of knowledge about high risk diseases in the
specific immigrant groups for whom they care; traditional
healing or folk health care practices that may be unfamiliar to
their US health care providers
How does managed care (MC) control costs? Correct Answers
medicare and medicade; a system of healthcare in which patients
agree to visit only certain doctors and hospitals, and in which the
cost of treatment is monitored by a managing company.
How does sensitivity to cultural differences fit into EBP?
Correct Answers - Cost vs quality, individual differences,
appropriate EBP methods for community oriented nursing
, practice, rising costs of healthcare means there is a continued
challenge of finding resources to implement EBP, emphasis on
quality care and equal distribution of health care resources and
cost control will continue
How does the nurse get acceptance in the community? Correct
Answers - Partner with gatekeepers and community health
workers
- Must overcome both personal and systemic factors; be
friendly, competent, willing to enter into the life of the
community, keep information confidential; cost geographic
proximity, availability
How is HIV transmitted? Correct Answers - Exposure to blood,
semen, vaginal secretions, and breastmilk (rarely through
accidental needlestick injury, organ transplants, and blood
transfusions); HIV is not transmitted through casual contact such
as touching or hugging someone with HIV infection. It is not
transmitted by insects, coughing, sneezing, office equipment, or
sitting next to or eating with someone with HIV infection
What are community oriented objectives? Correct Answers -
Identification of health assets and challenges; identify the
problem, its relation to factors, stressors, or health issues, and
the supporting data that document the problem
What are community partnerships? Correct Answers Involve
community members in all phases of assessment; some
community assessment models feature community partnerships
as a central activity; coalitions; passive vs. active participation;
partnership