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1. A 6-month-old child from Guatemala was adopted by an American family in
Indiana. The child's socialization into the American midwestern culture is best
described as:
A. Assimilation.
B. Acculturation.
C. Biculturalism.
D. Enculturation.: D. Enculturation.
Socialization into one's primary culture as a child is known as enculturation.
2. A 46-year-old woman from Bosnia came to the United States 6 years ago.
Although she did not celebrate Christmas when she lived in Bosnia, she
celebrates Christmas with her family now. This woman has experienced as-
similation into the culture of the United States because she:
A .Chose to be bicultural.
B. Adapted to and adopted the American culture.
C. Had an extremely negative experience with the American culture.
D. Gave up part of her ethnic identity in favor of the American culture.: B.
Adapted to and adopted the American culture.
Assimilation results when an individual gradually adopts and incorporates the char-
acteristics of the dominant culture.
3. To enhance their cultural awareness, nursing students need to make an
in-depth self-examination of their own:
A. Motivation and commitment to caring.
B. Social, cultural, and biophysical factors.
C. Engagement in cross-cultural interactions.
D. Background, recognizing her biases and prejudices.: D. Background, recog-
nizing her biases and prejudices.
Cultural awareness is an in-depth self-examination of one's own background, rec-
ognizing biases and prejudices and assumptions about other people.
4. Which of the following is required in the delivery of culturally congruent
care?
A. Learning about vast cultures
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B. Motivation and commitment to caring
C. Influencing treatment and care of patients
D. Acquiring specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes: D. Acquiring specific
knowledge, skills, and attitudes
Specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes are required in the delivery of culturally
congruent care.
5. A registered nurse is admitting a patient of French heritage to the hospital.
Which question asked by the nurse indicates that the nurse is stereotyping
the patient?
A. "What are your dietary preferences?"
B. "What time do you typically go to bed?"
C. "Do you bathe and use deodorant more than one time a week?"
D. "Do you have any health issues that we should know about?": C. "Do you
bathe and use deodorant more than one time a week?"
Nurses need to avoid stereotypes or unwarranted generalizations about any particu-
lar group that prevents further assessment of the individual's unique characteristics.
6. When action is taken on one's prejudices:
A. Discrimination occurs.
B. Delivery of culturally congruent care is ensured.
C. Effective intercultural communication develops.
D. Sufficient comparative knowledge of diverse groups is obtained.: A. Dis-
crimination occurs.
Prejudices associate negative permanent characteristics with people who are differ-
ent from the valued group. When a person acts on these prejudices, discrimination
occurs.
7. A nursing student is doing a community health rotation in an inner-city pub-
lic health department. The student investigates sociodemographic and health
data of the people served by the health department, and detects disparities in
health outcomes between the rich and poor. This is an example of a(n):
A. Illness attributed to natural and biological forces.
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B. Creation of the student's interpretation and descriptions of the data.
C. Influence of socioeconomic factors in morbidity and mortality.
D. Combination of naturalistic, religious, and supernatural modalities.: C.
Influence of socioeconomic factors in morbidity and mortality.
Health disparity populations are populations that have a significant increased in-
cidence or prevalence of disease or that have increased morbidity, mortality, or
survival rates compared to the health status of the general population.
8. Culture strongly influences pain expression and need for pain medication.
However, cultural pain is:
A. Not expressed verbally or physically.
B. Expressed only to others from a similar culture.
C. Usually more intense than physical pain.
D. Suffered by a patient whose valued way of life is disregarded by practition-
ers.: D. Suffered by a patient whose valued way of life is disregarded by practitioners.
Patients suffer cultural pain when health care providers disregard values or cultural
beliefs.
9. Which of the following best represents the dominant values in American
society on individual autonomy and self-determination?
A. Physician orders
B. Advance directive
C. Durable power of attorney
D. Court-appointed guardian: B. Advance directive
Informed consent and advance directives protect the right of the individual to know
and make decisions ensuring continuity of individual autonomy and self-determina-
tion.
10. The nurse at an outpatient clinic asks a patient who is Chinese American
with newly diagnosed hypertension if he is limiting his sodium intake as
directed. The patient does not make eye contact with the nurse but nods his
head. What should the nurse do next?
A. Ask the patient how much salt he is consuming each day
B. Discuss the health implications of sodium and hypertension
C. Remind the patient that many foods such as soy sauce contain "hidden"
sodium