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Professional Development Exam 31. Why is it importance for the RN to understanding cultural differences in healthcare? - correct answer
✔✔Because culture is a powerful influence on how nurses communicate with clients interpret and
respond to their healthcare environments
interpret and respond to their healthcare environments - correct answer ✔✔a. It develops over time, it
is shared and learn ed, it changes with difficulty (difficult to change), is essential for survival and
acceptance.
3. What are the primary & secondary differences in culture? - correct answer ✔✔a. Primary tends to be
obvious, including nationality, race, color, gender, age, and religious beliefs.
b. Secondary characteristics include socioeconomic status, education, occupation, gender issues,
residential status, and sexual orientation. Secondary characteristics are harder to identify but they have a
more powerful effect on the person's culture identity that primary characteristics
4. Cultural sensitivity definition. - correct answer ✔✔a. Cultural sensitivity has to do with a personal
attitude and not saying things that might be offensive to someone from a cultural or ethnic background
different from the heath care providers.
b. Cultural sensitivity describes the affective behaviors in individuals the capacity to feel convey or reach
to ideas, habits, customs or traditions unique to a group of people.
6. Transcultural nursing care.....what is acculturation? - correct answer ✔✔a. Transcultural: denotes
bridging significant differences in cultural practices
i. Cross culturalism: means mediating between/among culture
ii. Multicultural : refers to maintaining several different cultures.
b. Acculturation: socialization refers to growing up within a culture and taking on the characteristic of
that group. All of us are socialized to some culture. Acculturation refers to adapting to a particular
culture.
, i. People who have given up most traits from the culture of origins as a result of contact with another
culture. Acculturation is adapting to the new culture while maintaining parts of your previous culture.
ii. The overall process of acculturation into a new society is extremely difficult.
7. Cultural diversity.......what religious preferences will you need to know when taking care of a Jehovah's
Witness patient? - correct answer ✔✔a. No blood transfusions, they believe that taking blood into the
body through the mouth or veins violates God's laws.
i. This normally includes whole blood, PRBC, plasma, WBCs and platelet administration.
ii. They are against abortion, normally don't want autopsies done.
1. What can a RN in clinical practice do to become more professional'? - correct answer ✔✔Professional
identity develops through real or simulated experiences, reflection, and role modeling by colleagues.
• The process is a linear (a learning-related developmental process).
• Identity formation can be a crisis, leading to deconstruction and reformation.
2. What are the qualities of professionalism seen in clinical practice? - correct answer ✔✔compassion
and caring, advocacy and altruism, respect for human dignity, safety, social justice, honesty and integrity,
and accountability.
3. Professional identity definition - correct answer ✔✔Professional identity in nursing is defined as a
sense of oneself that is influenced by characteristics, norms, and values of the nursing discipline,
resulting in an individual thinking, acting, and feeling like a nurse.
• Professional identity is part of the larger notion of identity. Within the concept of identity, one would
find personal identity, with professional identity as a subset of personal identity
4. Attributes of professional identity. What is 'doing' and what is 'acting ethically?' (Doing, being, acting
ethically, flourishing, changing identities) - correct answer ✔✔There are 5 attributes to professional
identity
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