Deck 2: Cultural Heritage and History

Question 1

A patient tells the healthcare provider that a foot injury occurred while participating in Oktoberfest as a dancer.The patient is explaining which aspect of heritage consistency?
1)Culture
2)Ethnicity
3)Religion
4)Assimilation

Answer 1

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Question 2

A patient tells the nurse that it is important for him or her to be discharged soon,because it is expected that the family's needs be met.Which aspect of heritage consistency is this patient demonstrating?
1)Culture
2)Ethnicity
3)Religion
4)Acculturation

Answer 2

1

Question 3

A patient's parish priest arrives to the care area to visit the patient and provide communion.What impact does the priest's visit have on the patient's health?
1)Reinforce assimilation
2)Reinforces distinctiveness
3)Reinforces acculturation
4)Offers support and provides positive expectation

Answer 3

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Question 4

Why does the nurse stop and think before implementing touch when providing care to a patient from a different culture?
1)Touch influences the patient's personal space.
2)Touch influences environmental control.
3)Touch impacts time orientation.
4)Touch alters social organization.

Question 5

A healthcare provider comments that a patient is "too old to take care of herself" and needs to "let a man make decisions for her." The nurse recognizes this healthcare provider is demonstrating which misanthropic feelings? Select all that apply:
1)Ageism
2)Sexism
3)Racism
4)Heterosexism
5)Ethnocentrism

Question 6

While collecting demographics,the nurse learns an American patient is married to an immigrant from another country.What does this patient's marriage exemplify?
1)Assimilation
2)Socialization
3)Acculturation
4)Ethnicity

Question 7

The nurse is planning care for an older patient.What will the nurse take into consideration to reduce generational conflict? Select all that apply:
1)Events that occurred when the patient was between 10 and 19 years of age
2)Ethnocultural status of the nurse
3)Age of the nurse
4)Life trajectory
5)Religion

Question 8

A patient born in a European country speaks excellent American English.The nurse realizes this patient has achieved which type of assimilation?
1)Cultural
2)Marital
3)Primary structural
4)Secondary structural

Question 9

A seminal event in the silent generation that can still elicit comments today is the question:
1)"Where were you when John F.Kennedy was shot?"
2)"Do you remember Pearl Harbor?"
3)"What were you doing on September 11,2001?"
4)"How did the Challenger tragedy affect you?"

Question 10

The staff development instructor is planning a seminar that focuses on the variables leading to generational conflict.What will the instructor include in this content? Select all that apply:
1)Decade of birth
2)Generation in the United States
3)Class
4)Language
5)Socialization

Question 11

The nurse determines a patient is in the process of acculturation.What did the nurse assess in this patient?
1)Americanization of the patient's name
2)Engaging in activities with members of the family's preferred social group
3)Speaking the family's native language
4)Living away from the family of origin

Question 12

The nurse manager has several staff members from Generation X born between 1965 and 1980.Which workplace ethic will these staff members most likely demonstrate when providing patient care? Select all that apply:
1)Work scheduled to fit their lifestyle
2)Must have a mission
3)Loyal to one's skills in the marketplace
4)Employer loyalty
5)Seeking maximum financial gain.

Question 13

Which characteristic exemplifies ethnocentrism in nursing?
1)Ambivalence to health concerns of groups beyond their dominant social group
2)Caring for members of their own ethnic group
3)Seeing nursing as the only method to address health concerns.
4)Willingness to acknowledge other methods beyond nursing to address health concerns

Question 14

An older patient tells the nurse about being born in a different country and having visited the home country many times throughout the years.The nurse realizes that the patient is explaining which aspect of culture?
1)Socialization
2)Religious preference
3)Heritage consistency
4)Acculturation

Question 15

A patient from a different culture tells the nurse about eating specific foods during pregnancy and after childbirth to ensure a healthy mother and infant.Which cultural phenomena does this behavior exemplify?
1)Social organization
2)Environmental control
3)Time orientation
4)Biological variation

Question 16

A patient tells the nurse that a health problem is common among people of the patient's ethnic background.What other characteristics would the nurse assess as contributing to this patient's ethnicity? Select all that apply:
1)Food preferences
2)Employment patterns
3)Special interest in the homeland
4)Divine intervention
5)Thoughts of hope and optimism

Question 17

A newly admitted patient places a picture of a saint on the bedside table.What aspects of religion will the nurse take into consideration when caring for this patient? Select all that apply:
1)Religion often determines ethnic group.
2)Religion is a domain of life that deals with things of the spirit.
3)Illness is sometimes seen as punishment.
4)Religion guides ethical values.
5)Religion dictates the structure of the family.

Question 18

While conducting a health history,a patient demonstrates characteristics of ethnocentrism.What behaviors did the nurse observe in the patient? Select all that apply:
1)Superiority with ethnic group
2)Concern with race
3)Fear of strangers
4)Morbid fear of strangers
5)Ethnic pride

Question 19

What aspects of a patient's culture will the health care provider keep in mind when providing care? Select all that apply:
1)Parts of a person's culture are under conscious control.
2)It is an extension of biological capabilities.
3)It is the medium of social relationships.
4)It identifies food preferences.
5)It explains folklore and music.

Question 20

A group of nurses talking are overheard using jargon that is consistent with the nursing profession.Which behavior are the nurses demonstrating?
1)Acculturation
2)Ethnicity
3)Socialization
4)Heritage consistency

Question 21

Prior to caring for a Native American patient,the nurse reviews the diseases that are more prevalent in this culture.What is the nurse taking into consideration when caring for this patient?
1)Social organization pattern
2)Environmental control
3)Biological variation
4)Component of heritage consistency

Question 22

The nurse notices a patient from a different culture will not make eye contact during the assessment process.What does the lack of eye contact indicate to the nurse?
1)Belief in a cultural taboo
2)Friendliness
3)Lying
4)Fear

Question 23

The nurse is not happy to learn that a newly admitted patient is from the same culture as a previous patient who had created much turmoil on the care area.What behavior is this nurse prone to demonstrate?
1)Prejudice
2)Discrimination
3)Ethnocentrism
4)Racism

Question 24

The healthcare team is having difficulty communicating with a patient from a non-English-speaking culture.An interpreter has not yet been located.Which behaviors might the patient demonstrate because of this communication issue? Select all that apply:
1)Withdrawing
2)Hostility
3)Belligerence
4)Uncooperativeness
5)Silence

Question 25

The nurse learns a member of the healthcare team from a different country does not know the names of the actors who are starring in a blockbuster movie.What assumption can be made about this assessment finding?
1)The person is heritage consistent.
2)The person cannot read.
3)The person is hard of hearing.
4)The person does not have a high school education.

Question 26

A patient living in the United States for ten years is distressed about not "fitting in" with American society.What aspects of acculturation will the nurse discuss with this patient? Select all that apply:
1)Socialization
2)Acculturation
3)Assimilation
4)Ethnicity
5)Heritage consistency

Question 27

Which action would the home care nurse take to demonstrate a respect of time?
1)Showing up when able at the patient's home without informing the patient first
2)Informing the patient of the approximate time the visit will be made
3)Bringing a gift to the patient's home on the initial visit
4)Giving a general idea of when the visit will be made

Question 28

While seeing a patient from a different culture in the home,the nurse notes that family members are not eating foods from one food group.The patient states this is because abstinence from the food item must occur for 40 days.What cultural phenomena did the nurse witness in this patient's home?
1)Biological variation
2)Environmental control
3)Social organization
4)Communication

Question 29

A patient from a non-English-speaking culture tells the nurse about spending time with friends in American clubs and shopping for clothes on the weekends.The nurse realizes this patient is experiencing which type of assimilation?
1)Marital
2)Cultural
3)Primary
4)Secondary

Question 30

A patient from a non-English-speaking culture explains how he has to behave differently at work than he does at home.What does the nurse realize this patient is describing?
1)Biculturalism
2)Cultural assimilation
3)Primary structural assimilation
4)Secondary structural assimilation