NSG 152 test 1 Questions and Answers (100%
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Culture
Ans: Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
Cultural Competence
Ans: a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a
system, agency, or among professionals, that enables effective work in cross-cultural
situations
Assimilation
Ans: process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas
Ethnocentrism
Ans: evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the
standars of one's own culture
Stereotyping
Ans: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of
person or thing
Culture shock
Ans: the feeling of disorientation experienced by someone who is suddenly subject
to a culture, way of life, or set of attitudes
Faith
Ans: complete trust or confidence in someone or something
Hope
Ans: a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen
transcendence
Ans: existence or experience beyond normal or physical level
forgiveness
Ans: the action or process of forgiving or being forgiven
connectedness
Ans: the state of being joined or linked
Monotheism
Ans: the docterine or belief that there is only one God
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Polytheism
Ans: the belief or worship of more than one god
religion
Ans: a beleif in or worship of a surperhuman controlling power, especially a
personal God or gods
spiritual distress
Ans: disturbance in a person's belief system
spiritual health
Ans: amount of peace and harmony an individual experience in his day-to-day life.
spiritual well-being
Ans: integral part of mental, emotional and phyical health
Spirituality
Ans: the quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to
material or physical things
Denomination
Ans: a recognized autonomous branch of the christain church
Meditation
Ans: the focusing of the mind on spiritual ideas
Prayer
Ans: An attempt to contact God, usually through words
Presencing
Ans: being present, being there, or just being with a client
epidemiology
Ans: Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and
control of diseases that affect large numbers of people.
epidemic
Ans: A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease.
pandemic
Ans: worldwide epidemic
mortality
Ans: death
morbidity
Ans: illness