Cultural Awareness
The ability to provide care that respects a patient's cultural beliefs, values, and practices.
What is cultural competence?
A patient's religious practice includes asking for time to pray. What should the nurse do when clinically feasible?
What is accommodate the patient's prayer practice?
This aspect of care addresses a patient's search for meaning, purpose, connection, or hope.
What is spirituality?
This family structure gives one person or group primary authority in family decisions.
What is a family decision-making hierarchy?
This inherited blood disorder is associated with abnormal hemoglobin and can cause pain crises.
What is sickle cell disease?
A nurse assumes a patient will refuse a treatment because of the patient's ethnic background.
What is stereotyping?
A patient declines a menu item because of a religious dietary restriction. What should the nurse do?
What is clarify the dietary needs and arrange an appropriate alternative?
A nurse asks, 'What gives you strength when you are facing a difficult time?' This is an example of what?
What is a spiritual assessment question?
A family structure in which men traditionally hold primary authority is called what?
What is a patriarchal structure?
This inherited condition can cause severe disease in children when a child inherits the relevant gene variants from both parents.
What is Tay-Sachs disease?
A nurse believes their own culture's practices are superior to those of other cultures.
What is ethnocentrism?
A patient requests a visit from a clergy member before surgery. What nursing action supports this request?
What is facilitate contact with the patient's chosen spiritual or religious leader?
A patient says, 'Nothing matters anymore, and I have lost all hope.' What concern should the nurse explore?
What is possible spiritual distress?
A family structure in which women traditionally hold primary authority is called what?
What is a matriarchal structure?
A nurse is discussing a possible inherited risk with a patient. What should the nurse avoid assuming based only on ethnicity?
What is that the patient definitely has a condition or carries a genetic variant?
A patient nods during teaching, but the nurse is unsure whether the patient understands. What should the nurse do?
What is use teach-back and ask the patient to explain the information in their own words?
A patient refuses a treatment for religious reasons. What should the nurse assess before planning care?
What is the patient's understanding, decision-making capacity as appropriate, preferences, and concerns, while notifying the provider as needed?
A patient identifies as agnostic. How should the nurse approach spiritual care?
What is respect the patient's worldview and ask what sources of meaning, support, or comfort they prefer?
A family shares decision-making authority among its members. Which structure may describe this?
What is an egalitarian structure?
A patient has a family history of diabetes mellitus. What is an appropriate nursing response?
What is assess individual risk factors and history, provide prevention education, and encourage appropriate screening?
A patient's beliefs differ from the nurse's beliefs about health. What is the best nursing approach?
What is provide nonjudgmental, individualized care and explore the patient's preferences and beliefs?
A family requests a religious ritual for a dying patient. What is the nurse's priority?
What is respectfully explore and facilitate the ritual when possible while maintaining safety and honoring the patient's wishes?
A patient expresses spiritual distress. Name two appropriate nursing interventions.
What are listening without judgment, assessing the patient's needs, offering presence, and facilitating desired support such as a chaplain?
A patient wants a relative involved in care decisions, but the nurse has not asked the patient about preferences. What should the nurse do first?
What is ask the patient whom they want involved and how they prefer decisions to be made?
A patient asks whether their ancestry means they will develop a genetic condition. What is the best response?
What is explain that ancestry may inform some risks, but individual risk depends on genetic, family, environmental, and other factors; offer appropriate assessment or genetic counseling?