NUR 441 EXAM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

A public health nurse is working with a very diverse population. The nurse understand that the skin color of individuals within this population represents a component of: a. Acculturation b. Race c. Culture d. Ethnicity b. Race A nurse believes that the best treatment for illness is the use of Western medicine and that alternative treatments should not be used for healing. Which of the following best describes what has happened? a. Racism b. Stereotyping c. Ethnocentrism d. Ethnorelativism c. Ethnocentrism Which of the following is false? a. Ethnocentrism blocks effective communication by creating biases and misconception about human behavior. b. Culture is the product of individual habit, not aggregate behavior. c. Although culture is learned, the process and results of that learning are different for each person. d. Folk medicine is a body of treatment practices that has been handed down verbally from generation to generation. b. Culture is the product of individual habit, not aggregate behavior. Western societies in general have a(n) __________ view of health and illness. a. biomedical b. magicoreligious c. holistic d. herbalism a. biomedical A public health nurse is working with clients whose mother tongue is not English and feel more comfortable in communicating in their native language. In this situation, which of the following is an appropriate response? a. The nurse should work with translator when needing help with conversations about medical matter with these clients. b. The nurse should face the interpreter when speaking. c. Unless otherwise unavoidable, the nurse should not use family members as interpreters. d. The nurse does not need to work with an interpreter as long as he speaks the client language well enough. c. Unless otherwise unavoidable, the nurse should not use family members as interpreters. Which one of the following is false about the CLAS Standards? a. CLAS stands for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services. b. According to the CLAS Standards, patients have the right to receive language appropriate services. c. Care provided under the CLAS Standards should incorporate community participation. d. A principle of the CLAS standards includes mitigating power imbalances. d. A principle of the CLAS standards includes mitigating power imbalances. Is the following statement True or False? Differences in gender, education level, and country of origin between interpreters and clients do not matter as long as the nurse has a trained medical interpreter who can work with him. False Which one of the following would be inappropriate to include during a cultural assessment? a. Tell me how you feel about contraception. b. What made you emigrate to the US? c. Tell me about your experience in using western medicine. d. Do you really seek help from religious healers? d. Do you really seek help from religious healers