(VERSION A & B) ACTUAL EXAM ALL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
The nurse is considered - ANSWER: an authority figure that should respect the
individual, be able to relate to the individual, and maintain the individual's dignity
Mexican individuals prefer - ANSWER: polite, nonconfrontational relationships with
others
What do Mexican individuals expect? - ANSWER: to talk about personal matters
(chit-chat) for the first few minutes of an encounter.
simpatia - ANSWER: range of social and emotional traits, including being friendly,
polite, good-natured, pleasant, and helpful toward others
How should a nurse who is helping a Mexican patient act? - ANSWER: not to appear
rushed and to be a good listener. Humor is appreciated and touching as a caring
gesture is seen as a positive behavior.
Harvesting crops 12 to 14 hours a day take their toll on - ANSWER: the
musculoskeletal system
Most common types of chronic pain reported with many workers leaving or changing
their jobs - ANSWER: Back and neck pain
What is consistent with a herniated lumbar disk? - ANSWER: Low back pain that
radiates into 1 leg (sciatica)
Assess the client to see whether the pain is aggravated by events that increase intra-
spinal pressure by - ANSWER: bending lifting, sneezing, coughing, or by lifting the
leg straight up while supine.
Greatest health risk for migrant farmworkers is - ANSWER: Pesticide exposure
To prevent exposure to pesticide, the nurse should - ANSWER: provide access to
handwashing stations, which will decrease the transmission of the pesticides to the
workers and family members.
Reviewing common pesticides does not reduce exposure. - ANSWER: True
How do you assess a patient after a pesticide exposure? - ANSWER: Surveying for
acute health changes
, Would the use of barrier devices decrease pesticide exposure? - ANSWER: It would
be helpful, but would not necessarily decrease exposure.
How is HIV transmitted? - ANSWER: By intimate sexual contact and the exchange of
body fluids, exposure to infected blood, and passage from an infected woman to
her fetus.
High-risk category for HIV infection include individuals who - ANSWER: have used
intravenous drugs, individual who experience persistent and recurrent sexually
transmitted infections and individuals who have multiple sex partners.
Homeless adolescents living on the streets exhibit greater risk-taking behaviors,
including - ANSWER: earlier onset of sexual activity.
Who has poorer health status and decreased access to health care than do teens in
the general population? - ANSWER: Homeless adolescents
Homeless adolescents are at high risk for - ANSWER: contracting serious
communicable diseases, such as AIDS and hepatitis B, and are more likely to use
alcohol and illicit substances.
Homeless teens often have histories of - ANSWER: runaway behavior, physical
abuse, and sexual abuse.
What do homeless teens exchange sex for? - ANSWER: Food, clothing, and shelter.
Homeless adolescent girls who exchange sex for survival are at high risk for -
ANSWER: unintended pregnancy
Poverty directly affects health and well-being, resulting in - ANSWER: • Higher rates
of chronic illness
• Higher infant morbidity and mortality
• Shorter life expectancy
• More complex health problems
• More significant complications and physical limitations
• Hospitalization rates greater
Significant complications and physical limitations poverty affects - ANSWER: chronic
disease, such as asthma, diabetes, and hypertension
Barriers that impede access to health care - ANSWER: inability to pay for health
care, lack of insurance, geographic location, language, inability to find a health care
provider, transportation difficulties, inconvenient clinic hours, and negative
attitudes of health care providers toward poor clients.
Alcohol should not be consumed when - ANSWER: a hypnotic is taken