Exam 5: Cultural Implications for Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

Match the culture-bound syndrome with the patient most likely to experience it. Answers may be used more than once. -Ghost sickness

A nurse speaks with family members of a Chinese American parent recently diagnosed with major depression.Which comment by the nurse will the family find most comforting? "The nursing staff will:

Which questions should the nurse ask to determine an individual's worldview? Select all that apply.

A patient who has been hospitalized for 3 days with a serious mental illness says,"I've got to get out of here and back to my job.I get 60 to 80 messages a day,and I'm getting behind on my email correspondence." What is this patient's perspective about health and illness?

A nurse cares for a first-generation American whose family emigrated from Germany.Which worldview about the source of knowledge would this patient likely have?

A Vietnamese patient's family reports that the patient has wind illness.Which menu selection will be most helpful for this patient?

Which intervention best demonstrates that a nurse correctly understands the cultural needs of a hospitalized Asian American patient diagnosed with a mental illness?

A group activity on an inpatient psychiatric unit is scheduled to begin at 1000.A patient,who was recently discharged from United States Marine Corps,arrives at945.Which analysis best explains this behavior?

A nurse in the clinic has a full appointment schedule.A Hispanic American patient arrives at 1230 for a 1000 appointment.A Native American patient does not keep an appointment at all.What understanding will improve the nurse's planning? These patients are:

A nurse prepares to assess a newly hospitalized patient who moved to the United States 6 months ago from Somalia.The nurse should first determine:

A psychoeducational session will discuss medication management for a culturally diverse group of patients.Group participants are predominantly members of minority cultures.Of the four staff nurses below,which nurse should lead this group?

A white patient of German descent rocks back and forth,grimaces,and rubs both temples.What is the nurse's best action?

The nurse should be particularly alert to somatization of psychological distress among patients whose cultural beliefs include: (select all that apply)

A nurse begins work in an agency that provides care to members of a minority ethnic population.The nurse will be better able to demonstrate cultural competence after:

Which Western cultural feature may result in establishing unrealistic outcomes for patients of other cultural groups?

Which communication techniques would be most effective for a nurse to use during an assessment interview with an adult Native American patient?