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, Professional Nursing Concepts I EAQ (Advocacy)
Nursing Concepts I EAQ (Advocacy)
1. A client who does not understand English requires an interpreter. Which action by the student nurse may exacerbate health
disparities?:
1. The student expects the interpreter to act as the client's advocate.
2. The student expects the interpreter to have a health care background.
3. The student maintains steady eye contact with the client.
4. The student talks only to the interpreter about the client (Correct).
2. The nurse hired to work in a metropolitan hospital provides services for a culturally diverse population. One of the nurses on
the unit says it is the nurses' responsibility to discourage these people from bringing all that alternative medicine stuff to their
family members. Which response by the nurse is correct?:
1. "Hospital policies should put a stop to this."
2. "Everyone should conform to the prevailing culture."
3. "Nontraditional approaches to health care can be beneficial." (Correct)
4. "You are right because they may have a negative effect on people's health."
3. The nurse leader states, "The people in rural America dress and act differently from those in urban centers." Which concept
describes this statement?:
1. Acculturation
2. Ethnocentrism
3. Cultural imposition
4. Cultural marginality (Correct)
4. In providing effective nursing care to clients from different cultural backgrounds, which strategy would the nurse follow?:
1. Advise clients that some cultural practices may be harmful to health.
2. Provide care that fits the clients' cultural beliefs. (Correct)
3. Strictly adhere to organization policies regarding nursing care.
1. Ignore the cultural aspect and focus on the medical aspect of care.
5. The nurse manager works on a unit where the nursing staff members are uncomfortable taking care of clients from cultures
that are different from their own. Which action would the nurse manager take to address this problem?:
1. Assign articles about various cultures so that the nurses can become more knowledgeable.
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