Key Terms
A set of learned values, beliefs, customs, and practices that are shared by a group and are passed from one generation to another.
A. Culture Competence
B. Culture
C. Subculture
D. Ethnicity
B. Culture
Don't eat pork.
A. Assemblies of God
B. Baptist
C. Eastern Orthodox
D. American Muslim Mission
D. American Muslim Mission
Health is the absence of disease or signs and symptoms of disease.
Disease is an alteration of the structure and function of the body. Treatment focuses on the use of physical and chemical interventions.
A. Folk Health Belief System
B. Holistic Health Belief System
C. Alternative or complementary belief system
D. Biomedical health belief system
D. Biomedical health belief system
Small children are shielded from dying and death scenes.
Mexican Americans
True or False
Body language and gestures often are related culturally.
True
A group of people who share biologic physical characteristics?
A. Culture
B. Ethnicity
C. Race
D. Cultural Competence
C. Race
Blood tranfusions violate God's laws and therefore are not allowed
Jehovah's Witness
Supernatural force to cause health or illness. Natural events have to with the way God made it. Treatment is done by carrying out rituals or repentance or giving in to the supernatural force's wishes.
Use of the curandero.
A. Biomedical health Belief system
B. Folk health belief system
C. Holistic health belief system
D. Alternative or Complementary belief system
B. Folk health belief system
White, yellow, or black clothing is worn as a sign of mourning.
Chinese Americans
This culture sees a firm handshake as a sign of aggression.
A. Americans
B. Native Americans
C. Chinese Americans
D. Muslim Americans
B. Native Americans
A generalized expectation about forms of behavior, an individual, or a group.
A. Stereotype
B. Ethnic Stereotype
C. Race
D. Cultural Competence
A. Stereotype
A baby is bathed immediately after birth before given to mother, prefer female doctors.
Islam-Muslim
Religious experiences based on cultural beliefs. Baptism may be as a ritual cleaning. Circumcision is viewed as religious practice. Treatment is designed to restore balance with physical, social, and metaphysical worlds.
A. Biomedical health belief system
B. Folk health belief system
C. Holistic health belief system
D. Alternative or complementary belief system
C. Holistic health belief system
Diet is high in fat because frying is common method of cooking.
Mexican Americans
This culture may be late for appointments because of "elasticity" that implies that future activities are possible to recover but not present ones.
A. Americans
B. Native Americans
C. Mexican Americans
D. Chinese Americans
C. Mexican Americans
Believing your culture is best is referred to as:
A. Subculture
B. Stereotype
C. Ethnocentrism
D. Cultural Competence
C. Ethnocentrism
Belief that unbaptized children are cut off from heaven, infant baptism is mandatory.
Roman Catholic
These people sometimes avoid seeking care from health care providers.
A. Biomedical health belief system
B. Folk health belief system
C. Holistic health belief system
D. Alternative or complementary belief system
B. Folk health belief system
Post signs to alert male staff members to avoid room with female patient.
Muslim Americans
A nation, community, or broad group of people who establish particular aims, beliefs, or standards of living and conduct.
A. Subculture
B. Society
C. Race
D. Culture
B. Society
Understanding different variables and integrating an understanding into all aspects of nursing care is referred to:
A. Ethnocentrism
B. Cultural competence
C. Transcultural Nursing
D. Ethnicity
C. Transcultural Nursing
Kosher diet- no mixing of milk and meat
Orthodox Judaism
Use Acupuncture, aromatic therapy, meditation, therapeutic touch.
A. Biomedical health belief system
B. Folk health belief system
C. Holistic health belief system
D. Alternative or complementary belief system
D. Alternative or complementary belief system
Husbands is consulted in any decisions about family.
Muslim Americans
Strategies to Communicate with Patients from different cultures include: Select all that apply
A. Give patients time to answer
B. Take time to establish comfort between nurse and patient
C. With sexual concerns, have a nurse of the opposite gender to facilitate communication
D. Learn key phrases in languages that are commonly spoken
E. Use an interpreter for those who do not speak English
A, B, D,E