Chapter 7 Social Issues
1) When discussing the feminization of poverty, the nurse educator will
inform the students of what fact?
1. The out-of-wedlock birth rate is above 40%.
2. In 2012, 25% of the households headed by single mothers lived in poverty.
3. Poverty is not directly linked to level of education attained.
4. Women work fewer hours for more pay than men do.
Answer: 1
Explanation: 1. The reality is that many children will spend at least a portion
of their lives in single-parent families.
Page Ref: 113
Cognitive Level: Understanding
Client Need/Sub: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
Standards: QSEN Competencies: I. B. 10. Engage patients or designated
surrogates in active partnerships that promote health, safety and well-being,
and self-care management. | AACN Essentials Competencies: V. 8. Discuss the
implications of healthcare policy on issues of access, equity, affordability, and
social justice in healthcare delivery. | NLN Competencies: Context and
Environment: Read and interpret data; apply health promotion/disease
prevention strategies; apply health policy; conduct population-based
transcultural health assessments and interventions. | Nursing/Integrated
Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning
Learning Outcome: 1 Define the phrase feminization of poverty.
MNL LO: 6.1.4 Recognize social issues affecting women in todays society.
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2) The nurse is on a panel at a conference discussing poverty and health care
for those living below the poverty level. Which statements should the nurse
include?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct and no incorrect choices are
selected.
Select all that apply.
1. The poverty level is defined as a family of four living on less than $23,550
,per year.
2. Two-thirds of Americans living in poverty are women and children.
3. The majority of single-parent families are headed by women.
4. The greatest number of people living under the poverty level are the
elderly.
5. Parental race does not affect the level of poverty.
Answer: 1, 2, 3
Explanation: 1. Increasing numbers of U.S. women and their children are
attempting to live on $23,550 or less, which is the current income that defines
the poverty level for a family of four.
2. Currently, two-thirds of Americans living in poverty are women and
children.
3. The majority of single parent-families are headed by women, and these
families are four times more likely to live in poverty than families with two
parents.
Page Ref: 113
Cognitive Level: Understanding
Client Need/Sub: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
Standards: QSEN Competencies: I. C. 13. Acknowledge the tension that may
exist between patient rights and the organization responsibility for professional,
ethical care. | AACN Essentials Competencies: V. 8. Discuss the implications
of healthcare policy on issues of access, equity, affordability, and social justice
in healthcare delivery. | NLN Competencies: Context and Environment:
Appreciate the influence of systems on healthcare outcomes. |
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning
Learning Outcome: 3 Discuss povertys effect on womens health care.
MNL LO: 6.1.4 Recognize social issues affecting women in todays society.
3) There have been a number of historical trends that have contributed to this
existing wage gap, including which of the following?
1. There was a perception that men were the sole breadwinners.
2. Women who were competitive in the work environment were viewed
positively.
,3. Women in past generations generally were not limited to certain
occupations.
4. Increase in societal importance of womens intellectual traits.
Answer: 1
Explanation: 1. Historically, there was a perception that men were the sole
breadwinners, thus higher salaries for men were justified to support a family.
Page Ref: 115
Cognitive Level: Understanding
Client Need/Sub: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
Standards: QSEN Competencies: I. C. 13. Acknowledge the tension that may
exist between patient rights and the organizational responsibility for
professional, ethical care. | AACN Essentials Competencies: V. 8. Discuss
the implications of healthcare policy on issues of access, equity, affordability,
and social justice in healthcare delivery. | NLN Competencies: Context and
Environment:
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Appreciate the influence of systems of health care outcomes. |
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning
Learning Outcome: 2 Identify factors that contribute to the wage gap between
women and men.
MNL LO: 6.1.4 Recognize social issues affecting women in todays society.
4) In a community clinic, a number of women working low-paying jobs come
in for health care in the evening. The nurse knows that which of the following
is true about the womens working situations?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct and no incorrect choices are
selected.
Select all that apply.
1. They have no health insurance.
2. They have pink collar jobs.
3. They earn less pay than do their male counterparts.
, 4. They will be receiving a pension upon retirement.
5. They have no problem securing child care.
Answer: 1, 2, 3
Explanation: 1. Lack of health insurance continues to be a major problem for
the poor.
2. About one-third of women work in a cluster of pink collar occupations,
which tend to be poorly paid when compared with male-dominated positions
requiring comparable levels of responsibility, skill, and education.
3. Women are paid less than men for comparable work in virtually all
occupations.
Page Ref: 113, 114
Cognitive Level: Applying
Client Need/Sub: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
Standards: QSEN Competencies: I. C. 13. Acknowledge the tensions that
may exist between patient rights and the organizational responsibility for
professional, ethical care. | AACN Essentials Competencies: V. 8. Discuss
the implications of healthcare policy on issues of access, equity, affordability,
and social justice in healthcare delivery. | NLN Competencies: Context and
Environment: Appreciate the influence of systems of health care outcomes. |
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning
Learning Outcome: 3 Discuss povertys effect on womens health care.
MNL LO: 6.1.4 Recognize social issues affecting women in todays society.
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5) The nurse is planning a community educational presentation for people
living below the poverty level. The nurse knows that which of the following
is the largest population in this socioeconomic category?
1. Adults in communal living situations
2. Young married couples under the age of 20
3. Single women with children
4. Single adults
1) When discussing the feminization of poverty, the nurse educator will
inform the students of what fact?
1. The out-of-wedlock birth rate is above 40%.
2. In 2012, 25% of the households headed by single mothers lived in poverty.
3. Poverty is not directly linked to level of education attained.
4. Women work fewer hours for more pay than men do.
Answer: 1
Explanation: 1. The reality is that many children will spend at least a portion
of their lives in single-parent families.
Page Ref: 113
Cognitive Level: Understanding
Client Need/Sub: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
Standards: QSEN Competencies: I. B. 10. Engage patients or designated
surrogates in active partnerships that promote health, safety and well-being,
and self-care management. | AACN Essentials Competencies: V. 8. Discuss the
implications of healthcare policy on issues of access, equity, affordability, and
social justice in healthcare delivery. | NLN Competencies: Context and
Environment: Read and interpret data; apply health promotion/disease
prevention strategies; apply health policy; conduct population-based
transcultural health assessments and interventions. | Nursing/Integrated
Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning
Learning Outcome: 1 Define the phrase feminization of poverty.
MNL LO: 6.1.4 Recognize social issues affecting women in todays society.
1
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2) The nurse is on a panel at a conference discussing poverty and health care
for those living below the poverty level. Which statements should the nurse
include?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct and no incorrect choices are
selected.
Select all that apply.
1. The poverty level is defined as a family of four living on less than $23,550
,per year.
2. Two-thirds of Americans living in poverty are women and children.
3. The majority of single-parent families are headed by women.
4. The greatest number of people living under the poverty level are the
elderly.
5. Parental race does not affect the level of poverty.
Answer: 1, 2, 3
Explanation: 1. Increasing numbers of U.S. women and their children are
attempting to live on $23,550 or less, which is the current income that defines
the poverty level for a family of four.
2. Currently, two-thirds of Americans living in poverty are women and
children.
3. The majority of single parent-families are headed by women, and these
families are four times more likely to live in poverty than families with two
parents.
Page Ref: 113
Cognitive Level: Understanding
Client Need/Sub: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
Standards: QSEN Competencies: I. C. 13. Acknowledge the tension that may
exist between patient rights and the organization responsibility for professional,
ethical care. | AACN Essentials Competencies: V. 8. Discuss the implications
of healthcare policy on issues of access, equity, affordability, and social justice
in healthcare delivery. | NLN Competencies: Context and Environment:
Appreciate the influence of systems on healthcare outcomes. |
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning
Learning Outcome: 3 Discuss povertys effect on womens health care.
MNL LO: 6.1.4 Recognize social issues affecting women in todays society.
3) There have been a number of historical trends that have contributed to this
existing wage gap, including which of the following?
1. There was a perception that men were the sole breadwinners.
2. Women who were competitive in the work environment were viewed
positively.
,3. Women in past generations generally were not limited to certain
occupations.
4. Increase in societal importance of womens intellectual traits.
Answer: 1
Explanation: 1. Historically, there was a perception that men were the sole
breadwinners, thus higher salaries for men were justified to support a family.
Page Ref: 115
Cognitive Level: Understanding
Client Need/Sub: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
Standards: QSEN Competencies: I. C. 13. Acknowledge the tension that may
exist between patient rights and the organizational responsibility for
professional, ethical care. | AACN Essentials Competencies: V. 8. Discuss
the implications of healthcare policy on issues of access, equity, affordability,
and social justice in healthcare delivery. | NLN Competencies: Context and
Environment:
2
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Appreciate the influence of systems of health care outcomes. |
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning
Learning Outcome: 2 Identify factors that contribute to the wage gap between
women and men.
MNL LO: 6.1.4 Recognize social issues affecting women in todays society.
4) In a community clinic, a number of women working low-paying jobs come
in for health care in the evening. The nurse knows that which of the following
is true about the womens working situations?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct and no incorrect choices are
selected.
Select all that apply.
1. They have no health insurance.
2. They have pink collar jobs.
3. They earn less pay than do their male counterparts.
, 4. They will be receiving a pension upon retirement.
5. They have no problem securing child care.
Answer: 1, 2, 3
Explanation: 1. Lack of health insurance continues to be a major problem for
the poor.
2. About one-third of women work in a cluster of pink collar occupations,
which tend to be poorly paid when compared with male-dominated positions
requiring comparable levels of responsibility, skill, and education.
3. Women are paid less than men for comparable work in virtually all
occupations.
Page Ref: 113, 114
Cognitive Level: Applying
Client Need/Sub: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
Standards: QSEN Competencies: I. C. 13. Acknowledge the tensions that
may exist between patient rights and the organizational responsibility for
professional, ethical care. | AACN Essentials Competencies: V. 8. Discuss
the implications of healthcare policy on issues of access, equity, affordability,
and social justice in healthcare delivery. | NLN Competencies: Context and
Environment: Appreciate the influence of systems of health care outcomes. |
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning
Learning Outcome: 3 Discuss povertys effect on womens health care.
MNL LO: 6.1.4 Recognize social issues affecting women in todays society.
3
Copyright 2016 Pearson Education, Inc.
5) The nurse is planning a community educational presentation for people
living below the poverty level. The nurse knows that which of the following
is the largest population in this socioeconomic category?
1. Adults in communal living situations
2. Young married couples under the age of 20
3. Single women with children
4. Single adults
