Exam 1 LVN| 152 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

Culture varies from patient to patient. Why is it important that the nurse understand and accept each person as an individual? CORRECT ANSWERS: To provide holistic care What is a fixed concept of how all members of an ethnic group act or think? CORRECT ANSWERS: Ethnic stereotypes All nurses should work to provide culturally appropriate nursing care. What is the integration of cultural knowledge into all aspects of care? CORRECT ANSWERS: Transcultural nursing What is the term for when members of a particular ethnic group believe that their beliefs and practices are the best? CORRECT ANSWERS: Ethnocentrism What is the term used to describe cultures in which women make decisions about health care and provide the care and discipline to the children? CORRECT ANSWERS: Matriarchal into lano What basic philosophy in the United States is relevant to health care? CORRECT ANSWERS: Biomedical therapy What is a set of learned values, beliefs, customs, and practices shared by a group? CORRECT ANSWERS: Culture A nurse is American-born and works in a large hospital with patients from many cultures. What must this nurse develop to provide the best care? CORRECT ANSWERS: Cultural competence The nurse from New York City is caring for a patient from Atlanta, Georgia. What difference between the nurse and patient may cause them to experience difficulty in communicating? CORRECT ANSWERS: Subculture The father of an American Indian has just died. What should the nurse do immediately after death? CORRECT ANSWERS: Ask about providing help with the death ceremony What is the term for a generalization about a form of behavior, an individual, or a group? CORRECT ANSWERS: Stereotype What is the term for a group of people who share biological physical characteristics? CORRECT ANSWERS: Race What is the term for a group of people who share a common social and cultural heritage based on shared traditions, national origin, and physical and biological characteristics? CORRECT ANSWERS: Ethnicity A nurse is caring for a neonate born to observant Orthodox Jewi