Exam 21: Cultural Diversity

If a nurse wrongly identifies the gender identity of a person either intentionally or by mistake, this nurse has committed which of the following?

A nurse examining a transgender woman who has had bottom surgery should understand that this patient needs to have regular Pap smears, breast examinations, and mammography as well as which examination because the gland is not usually removed during gender affirmation surgery?

Which of the following represents a primary characteristic of diversity?

Which of the following represents a secondary characteristic of diversity?

As it relates to nursing, which of the following can be regarded as the provision of effective care for clients who belong to diverse cultures, based on the nurse's knowledge and understanding of the values, customs, beliefs, and practices of the cultures?

As a nurse caring for a gay man, you should be aware of the worrisome statistic of the rise in incidence of which sexually transmitted disease among males who have sex with males (MSM) in the United States because contracting this disease increases the likelihood of HIV transmission?

Which process allows interpreters to instantly transform emotions, idioms, colloquialisms, and other culturally specific references into analogous statements enabling the second-language care provider to understand?

As a nurse caring for a transgender client, it is important to assess and monitor transgender clients for which condition?

A nurse assessing a non-American patient for cyanosis is struggling because she does not know the appropriate skin color for the patient's ethnic group. How should this nurse proceed with her assessment?

Individuals who migrate to the United States from other countries may maintain many of their traditional cultural practices and languages while learning American culture, resulting in which phenomenon?

Which legislative act can be easily violated by nurses taking care of transgender individuals, particularly those in early stages of transition and those who may not have revealed the information to anyone?

Some experts believe that for a person to truly be considered by which gender identity, the brain of the person has to be exposed to an unusual mix of hormones in utero so that even if a person is born with atypical genitalia, a person may not actually belong to that gender?

Developing which concept implies that health-care providers make a commitment to learn about other cultures and to immerse themselves in those cultures?

The practice of not judging a culture according to one's own standards of what is right or wrong, strange or normal, but instead trying to understand the cultural practices of the other group, is referred to as which of the following?

If a client from a different culture believes that the nurse is an authority figure or an expert on health matters, this client is exhibiting which behavior?