Cultural Comp/Race/ Ethinicity
Disparities/Socioeconomic factors
Sexual Orientation
Gender
Aging
100
What is a characteristic of a culturally competent nurse? A. Displays no Favoritism B. Tries to treat all patients the same C. Prioritizes care based on cultural needs D. Wants to learn more about other ethnic groups
D. Wants to learn more about other ethnic groups.
100
Health care disparities can be caused by with patient variable? A. Refusal of treatment B. Provider/patient relationship C. Trust in the health care system D. Provider bias and discrimination
What is Refusal of treatment
100
Dread that heterosexuals feel toward sexual minorities, focus on individual and irrational fears is? A. Homosexual prejudice B. Homophobia C. Heterophobia
What is B homophobia
100
While working with populations of older adult women, you advocate for equity for older women in the health care system and federal research funding. Older adult women are considered a special population primarily because they? A. frequently live alone in rural areas with limited access to health care. B. have fewer financial resources than men. C. have a lower life expectancy than men. D. more often experience age-related cognitive impairment.
What is B have fewer financial resources than men
100
Who has the highest rate of premature death (before 75 years) from stroke and coronary heart disease? A. Non-Hispanic black B. Caucasian C. Native American D. Asian
What is A. Non-Hispanic black
200
What is an example of a system barrier to cultural competence? A. No Kosher diet option B. No sinks in every patient room C. No privacy curtains in exam room D. A strict and enforce policy against more than one visitor in a ICU room
D. A strict and enforce policy against more than one visitor in an ICU room
200
Which would have little to no impact in helping resolve health care disparities? A. Research on life stressors B. Access to basic health care C. Increasing diversity of health care workers D. Health promotion and wellness programs
What is Research on life stressors
200
Negative attitude toward individual because of that person's sexual orientation is? A. Sexual prejudice B. Homosexism C. Sexual discrimination
What is A sexual prejudice
200
Health disparities refer to differences between groups of people? True or False?
What is True
200
A nurse identifies higher-than-normal levels of lead when screening a 3-year-old child. The nurse works with the local health department to put together a team to address the environmental issues responsible for the child's abnormal lead level. Team members should include the following specialists: A) Epidemiologist, pediatric specialist, and sanitarian. B) Laboratory specialist, contractor whose bid for lead reduction work is the lowest, and public health lead reduction specialist. C) Public health sanitarian, pediatric generalist, and plumbing inspector. D) Specially trained housing inspector, pediatric specialist, lead-based paint intervention team, and laboratory specialists to test the child's home and the surrounding neighborhood.
What is D. Specially trained housing inspector, pediatric specialist, lead-based paint intervention team, and laboratory specialists to test the child's home and the surrounding neighborhood.
300
The nurse knows that in which culture is the older adult respected and makes decisions? A. Asians B. Hindu C. American Indian D. African-Americans
What is African Americans
300
The monitoring and public reporting of air quality in a local community to assist individuals with asthma or other respiratory conditions best illustrates the application of: A) Compliance and enforcement. B) Environmental epidemiology. C) Secondary prevention. D) Toxicology.
What is D. Environmental epidemiology
300
T/F Persons of specific sexual preference face discrimination, and subtle forms of bias when it comes to access to jobs.
What is True
300
Ways to prevent health disparities? Select all that apply A. Promote healthy lifestyle B. Provide high quality health care to all C. Only provide care to those who have health insurance D. Smoking cigarettes
What is A promote health lifestyles. B provide high quality health care to all.
300
A school nurse is teaching a class of sophomores about the relationship between the risk of sexually transmitted disease (STD) and risk-taking behaviors. A key point to include is: A) All STDs are easily preventable with consistent condom use. B) Once a young woman is pregnant, she is no longer at risk for most STDs. C) STDs are most likely to be transmitted during a student's initial sexual encounter. D) Use of alcohol and drugs makes a student more likely to make decisions that result in exposure to and infection with STDs.
What is D. Use of alcohol and drugs makes a student more likely to make decisions that result in exposure to and infection with STDs.
400
Which of the following would be a provider barrier to the nurse developing cultural competence? A. A nurse who is unaware of his or her own biases to other ethnic groups B. No family rooms to accommodate a critically ill patients family. C. A nurse who seeks encounters with individuals from other cultures D. A health care provider that incorporates alternative therapies in health care
What is A. A nurse who is unaware of his or her own biases to other ethnic groups
400
A community health nurse manager has integrated exposure history elements into the assessment practices of the health department that are relevant to the urban industrial community served. This strategy indicates that the nurse manager is aware of the relationship between: A) Community strengths and weaknesses. B) Environment and human health/disease. C) Toxicology studies conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency and the environment. D) Federal and state environmental regulations
What is B Environment and human health/disease
400
Cultural system of arrangements that privileges heterosexuality and casts negative light on homosexual individuals and their behaviors, relationships, and communities is? A. heterosexism B. heterosexuality C. sexual prejudice
What is A heterosexism
400
What are non-modifiable issues of health disparities? Select all that apply A. Age B. Race C. Gender D. Social class
What is A, B, C, D
400
While working with populations of older adult women, you advocate for equity for older women in the health care system and federal research funding. Older adult women are considered a special population primarily because they A. frequently live alone in rural areas with limited access to health care. B. have fewer financial resources than men. C. have a lower life expectancy than men. D. more often experience age-related cognitive impairment.
What is B. Have fewer financial resources than men.
500
Minority patients are... (select all that apply) A. More likely to be uninsured B.More likely to have a regular doctor C.More likely to rely on emergency departments D. Less likely to feel like they have a choice in where to go for health care
What is A More likely to be uninsured, C More likely to rely on emergency departments, D Less likely to feel like they have a choice in where to go for health care.
500
Which of the following are examples of disparities? (select all that apply) A. Differences in disease rates B. Receipt of preventative vaccinations C. Spiritual distress D. Risky behaviors
What is A. Differences in disease rates, B. receipt of preventative vaccinations, D. risky behaviors.
500
a person's sense of himself or herself as male, female, somewhere in between, both, or neither is? A. sexual orientation B. gender role C. gender identity
What is C gender identity
500
What gender is more likely to participate in preventative care? A. Male B. Female
What is B female.
500
Which conditions would you expect to see in the older adult population (select all that apply)? A. Hypertension B. Cancer C. Diabetes D. Psychosis E. Thrombosis A,B,C
What is Hypertension, Cancer, Diabetes
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