Nursing Care of the Childbearing
Family at Concordia, St. Paul
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,A nurse manager is evaluating staff members on their cultural
competence. Which action best demonstrates this characteristic?
1. Attends workshops on cultural diversity and health practices
2. Participates in community health events with minority populations
3. Plans care with the family members within their cultural beliefs
4. Uses family members as interpreters to make them feel important
ANSWER
3. Plans care with the family members within their cultural beliefs
The culturally sensitive nurse can understand and respond to the needs of
individuals and families from different cultures. This nurse plans
interventions with a solid knowledge of the values and practices of the
members of the culture. Being open, listening to the family, and involving
them in care demonstrates respect, unifies the nurse-patient relationship,
and will motivate the patient (and family) to make positive health changes.
A patient wishes to use complementary therapy when managing a
chronic health condition. Which action by the nurse is most
appropriate?
1. Advise the patient that stopping medical treatment may cause it to
worsen.
2. Inform the patient that there are no complementary therapies for
this condition.
3. Investigate herbs that can be substituted for prescription drugs.
4. Suggest the patient add massage therapy to the medical regimen.
ANSWER
4. Suggest the patient add massage therapy to the medical regimen.
,A nurse is working with a family that uses multiple complementary
and alternative medicine (CAM) modalities. What action by the nurse
is best?
1. Allow the family to continue these practices as desired.
2. Assess how these practices reflect religious beliefs.
3. Inform the family that most of these practices do not work.
4. Provide evidence-based information about the therapies.
ANSWER
4. Provide evidence-based information about the therapies.
A nurse is caring for a patient from a culture with which the nurse is
totally unfamiliar. What action by the nurse will best promote effective
communication?
1. Call for a professional interpreter to translate information.
2. Pattern voice tone and eye contact after the patient's behaviors.
3. Talk slowly and deliberately using simple language and cues.
4. Use nonverbal communication as much as possible with the
patient.
ANSWER
2. Pattern voice tone and eye contact after the patient's behaviors.
A nurse manager expects all employees to be patient advocates.
Which nursing action best demonstrates this nursing role?
1. Arranging a family-physician conference to clarify treatment plans
2. Encouraging treatment options based on personal beliefs and
values
3. Giving contact information for governmental assistance agencies
4. Working on a political campaign to reduce poverty in the state
, ANSWER
Arranging a family-physician conference to clarify treatment plans
A patient and family have the nursing diagnosis of impaired verbal
communication secondary to a language barrier. What action by the
patient/family would best indicate that short-term goals for this
diagnosis have been met?
1. Able to communicate long-term desires for health of the patient
2. Demonstrates comprehension by head nodding and saying "yes"
3. States understanding of condition and treatment via an interpreter
4. Understands how nonverbal communication varies between
cultures
ANSWER
3. States understanding of condition and treatment via an interpreter
A nurse is working with family members who have been striving to
improve their functioning as a family unit. What behavior would
suggest to the nurse that the family is meeting its goals?
1. The children are in multiple activities to develop talents.
2. The desire to be understood guides most communication.
3. Family members gave up some activities to eat dinner together on
most nights.
4. The parents have a strong desire for the children to succeed.
ANSWER
3. Family members gave up some activities to eat dinner together on most
nights.
A nurse works a great deal with refugees and is frustrated because,
as a group, they don't seem to want to implement desired health