1. The best explanation of what Title VI of the Civil Rights Act mandates is the freedom to:
1. Pick any physician and insurance company despite one’s income
2. Receive free medical benefits as needed within the county of residence
3. Have equal access to all health care regardless of race and religion
4. Have basic care with a sliding scale payment plan from all health care facilities
2. Which statement would best explain the role of the nurse when planning care for a
culturally diverse population? The nurse will plan care to:
1. Include care that is culturally congruent with the staff from predetermined criteria
2. Focus only on the needs of the client, ignoring the nurse’s beliefs and practices
3. Blend the values of the nurse that are for the good of the client and minimize the
client’s individual values and beliefs during care
4. Provide care while aware of one’s own bias, focusing on the client’s individual
needs rather than the staff’s practices
3. Which factor is least significant during assessment when gathering information about
cultural practices?
1. Language, timing
2. Touch, eye contact
3. Biocultural needs
4. Pain perception, management expectations
4. Transcultural nursing implies:
1. Using a comparative study of cultures to understand similarities and differences
across human groups to provide specific individualized care that is culturally
appropriate
2. Working in another culture to practice nursing within their limitations
3. Combining all cultural beliefs into a practice that is a nonthreatening approach
to minimize cultural barriers for all clients’ equality of care
4. Ignoring all cultural differences to provide the best generalized care to all clients.
5. What should the nurse do when planning nursing care for a client with a different
cultural background? The nurse should:
1. Allow the family to provide care during the hospital stay so no rituals or customs
are broken
2. Identify how these cultural variables affect the health problem
3. Speak slowly and show pictures to make sure the client always understands
, 4. Explain how the client must adapt to hospital routines to be effectively cared for while
in the hospital
6. Which activity would not be expected by the nurse to meet the cultural needs of the client?
1. Promote and support attitudes, behaviors, knowledge, and skills to respectfully
meet client’s cultural needs despite the nurse’s own beliefs and practices
2. Ensure that the interpreter understands not only the language of the client but
feelings and attitudes behind cultural practices to make sure an ethical balance can be
achieved
3. Develop structure and process for meeting cultural needs on a regular basis and
means to avoid overlooking these needs with clients
4. Expect the family to keep an interpreter present at all times to assist in meeting
the communication needs all day and night while hospitalized
7. Ethical principles for professional nursing practice in a clinical setting are guided by the
principles of conduct that are written as the:
1. American Nurses Association’s (ANA’s) Code of Ethics
2. Nurse Practice Act (NPA) written by state legislation
3. Standards of care from experts in the practice field
4. Good Samaritan laws for civil guidelines
8. A bioethical issue should be described as:
1. The physician’s making all decisions of client management without getting input
from the client
2. A research project that included treating all the white men and not treating all
the black men to compare the outcomes of a specific drug therapy.
3. The withholding of food and treatment at the request of the client in a written
advance directive given before a client acquired permanent brain damage from an
accident.
4. After the client gives permission, the physician’s disclosing all information to the
family for their support in the management of the client.
9. When the nurse described the client as “that nasty old man in 354,” the nurse is exhibiting
which ethical dilemma?
1. Gender bias and ageism
2. HIPPA violation
3. Beneficence
4. Code of ethics violation
10. The distribution of nurses to areas of “most need” in the time of a nursing shortage is an example of:
, 1. Utilitarianism theory
2. Deontological theory
3. Justice
4. Beneficence
11. Nurses are bound by a variety of laws. Which description of a type of law is correct?
1. Statutory law is created by elected legislature, such as the state legislature that defines
the Nurse Practice Act (NPA).
2. Regulatory law includes prevention of harm for the public and punishment for those laws
that are broken.
3. Common law protects the rights of the individual within society for fair and equal treatment.
4. Criminal law creates boards that pass rules and regulations to control society.
12. Besides the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JACHO), which
governing agency regulates hospitals to allow continued safe services to be provided, funding to
be received from the government and penalties if guidelines are not followed?
1. Board of Nursing Examiners (BNE)
2. Nurse Practice Act (NPA)
3. American Nurses Association (ANA)
4. Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
13. When a client is confused, left alone with the side rails down, and the bed in a high position,
the client falls and breaks a hip. What law has been broken?
1. Assault
2. Battery
3. Negligence
4. Civil tort
14. When signing a form as a witness, your signature shows that the client:
1. Is fully informed and is aware of all consequences.
2. Was awake and fully alert and not medicated with narcotics.
3. Was free to sign without pressure
4. Has signed that form and the witness saw it being done
15. Which criterion is needed for someone to give consent to a procedure?
1. An appointed guardianship
1. Pick any physician and insurance company despite one’s income
2. Receive free medical benefits as needed within the county of residence
3. Have equal access to all health care regardless of race and religion
4. Have basic care with a sliding scale payment plan from all health care facilities
2. Which statement would best explain the role of the nurse when planning care for a
culturally diverse population? The nurse will plan care to:
1. Include care that is culturally congruent with the staff from predetermined criteria
2. Focus only on the needs of the client, ignoring the nurse’s beliefs and practices
3. Blend the values of the nurse that are for the good of the client and minimize the
client’s individual values and beliefs during care
4. Provide care while aware of one’s own bias, focusing on the client’s individual
needs rather than the staff’s practices
3. Which factor is least significant during assessment when gathering information about
cultural practices?
1. Language, timing
2. Touch, eye contact
3. Biocultural needs
4. Pain perception, management expectations
4. Transcultural nursing implies:
1. Using a comparative study of cultures to understand similarities and differences
across human groups to provide specific individualized care that is culturally
appropriate
2. Working in another culture to practice nursing within their limitations
3. Combining all cultural beliefs into a practice that is a nonthreatening approach
to minimize cultural barriers for all clients’ equality of care
4. Ignoring all cultural differences to provide the best generalized care to all clients.
5. What should the nurse do when planning nursing care for a client with a different
cultural background? The nurse should:
1. Allow the family to provide care during the hospital stay so no rituals or customs
are broken
2. Identify how these cultural variables affect the health problem
3. Speak slowly and show pictures to make sure the client always understands
, 4. Explain how the client must adapt to hospital routines to be effectively cared for while
in the hospital
6. Which activity would not be expected by the nurse to meet the cultural needs of the client?
1. Promote and support attitudes, behaviors, knowledge, and skills to respectfully
meet client’s cultural needs despite the nurse’s own beliefs and practices
2. Ensure that the interpreter understands not only the language of the client but
feelings and attitudes behind cultural practices to make sure an ethical balance can be
achieved
3. Develop structure and process for meeting cultural needs on a regular basis and
means to avoid overlooking these needs with clients
4. Expect the family to keep an interpreter present at all times to assist in meeting
the communication needs all day and night while hospitalized
7. Ethical principles for professional nursing practice in a clinical setting are guided by the
principles of conduct that are written as the:
1. American Nurses Association’s (ANA’s) Code of Ethics
2. Nurse Practice Act (NPA) written by state legislation
3. Standards of care from experts in the practice field
4. Good Samaritan laws for civil guidelines
8. A bioethical issue should be described as:
1. The physician’s making all decisions of client management without getting input
from the client
2. A research project that included treating all the white men and not treating all
the black men to compare the outcomes of a specific drug therapy.
3. The withholding of food and treatment at the request of the client in a written
advance directive given before a client acquired permanent brain damage from an
accident.
4. After the client gives permission, the physician’s disclosing all information to the
family for their support in the management of the client.
9. When the nurse described the client as “that nasty old man in 354,” the nurse is exhibiting
which ethical dilemma?
1. Gender bias and ageism
2. HIPPA violation
3. Beneficence
4. Code of ethics violation
10. The distribution of nurses to areas of “most need” in the time of a nursing shortage is an example of:
, 1. Utilitarianism theory
2. Deontological theory
3. Justice
4. Beneficence
11. Nurses are bound by a variety of laws. Which description of a type of law is correct?
1. Statutory law is created by elected legislature, such as the state legislature that defines
the Nurse Practice Act (NPA).
2. Regulatory law includes prevention of harm for the public and punishment for those laws
that are broken.
3. Common law protects the rights of the individual within society for fair and equal treatment.
4. Criminal law creates boards that pass rules and regulations to control society.
12. Besides the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JACHO), which
governing agency regulates hospitals to allow continued safe services to be provided, funding to
be received from the government and penalties if guidelines are not followed?
1. Board of Nursing Examiners (BNE)
2. Nurse Practice Act (NPA)
3. American Nurses Association (ANA)
4. Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
13. When a client is confused, left alone with the side rails down, and the bed in a high position,
the client falls and breaks a hip. What law has been broken?
1. Assault
2. Battery
3. Negligence
4. Civil tort
14. When signing a form as a witness, your signature shows that the client:
1. Is fully informed and is aware of all consequences.
2. Was awake and fully alert and not medicated with narcotics.
3. Was free to sign without pressure
4. Has signed that form and the witness saw it being done
15. Which criterion is needed for someone to give consent to a procedure?
1. An appointed guardianship
