When the nurse is planning care for a client with a different cultural background, the initial ...

When the nurse is planning care for a client with a different cultural background, the initial primary concern in delivering culturally competent care is for the nurse to:
 
  A.
  Assess how cultural variables may affect the client's health-related actions.
  B.
  Explain how the client can adapt to hospital routines.
  C.
  Speak slowly and clearly to ensure effective communication.
  D.
  Allow the family to provide care during the hospital stay.

Question 2

Time takes on different meanings from one culture to another. To explore the relationship of time to nursing interventions, the nurse should:
 
  A.
  Avoid using set times to do procedures, if possible.
  B.
  Be flexible in attitudes and not become emotionally upset when the client desires procedures to be done at awkward times.
  C.
  Encourage clients to set their own times when they would like the nurse to perform nursing care activities, regardless of the nurse's schedule.
  D.
  Disregard the usual adherence to time schedules for medications.

Question 3

When providing care to clients with diverse cultural backgrounds, it is imperative for the nurse to recognize that:
 
  A.
  Cultural considerations must be put aside when the client enters the health care system.
  B.
  Current health standards should determine the acceptability of cultural practices.
  C.
  Clients with the same cultural background will respond similarly to stressful situations.
  D.
  Generalizations about the behavior of a particular ethnic group may be inaccurate.

Question 4

Cultural behavior, or how one acts in certain situations, is:
 
  A.
  Socially acquired.
  B.
  Genetically acquired.
  C.
  Stereotyping.
  D.
  Institutional.

Question 5

Culture is best defined as the:
 
  A.
  Worldview and traditions transmitted by a group from generation to generation.
  B.
  Classification of people according to shared biological characteristics.
  C.
  Religious or racial characteristics of a group that set it apart from the larger society of which it is a part.
  D.
  Assumption of attitudes, values, and beliefs held by a particular cultural group that have been passed down from one generation to the next.

Question 6

Belief that one's culture is superior to all others is called:
 
  A.
  Discrimination.
  B.
  Stereotyping.
  C.
  Ethnocentrism.
  D.
  Racism.

Question 7

To avoid cultural conflicts with a client, the nurse should:
 
  A.
  Assure him that he is receiving quality health care.
  B.
  Provide the client with information about the dominant culture.
  C.
  Ask the client about his expectations about nursing care and procedures.
  D.
  Thoroughly explain necessary nursing interventions that might cause the client embarrassment.