Exam 6: Cultural Aspects of Nursing Care

A patient of Chinese descent is in the community clinic for treatment of his arthritis.The patient tells the nurse that his disease is a "hot disease." The nurse assesses that he is referring to the hot-cold theory,which holds that hot diseases are caused by:

The nurse has scheduled a specific time for a group of Latino patients who are diabetic to come for diabetic teaching,but the group does not come until almost an hour later.The culturally competent nurse is aware that:

Transcultural nursing care is expected for every patient.To provide this type of care,the nurse needs to understand the practices of the predominant cultures of those groups in the health care geographic area that would require the nurse to be aware that:

A Japanese patient,hospitalized for arteriosclerotic heart disease and hypertension,is allowed to have a regular diet with cultural provisions of Asian food.A diuretic,antibiotic,bronchodilator,and vasodilator have been prescribed.The medication that would be hampered by an Asian diet would be a(n):

A nurse who is caring for a young woman who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon)would offer an appropriate snack of:

Many Latino individuals believe in alternate health care practices,among which are:

A Filipino man is admitting his elderly mother to a long-term care facility for custodial care.During the intake interview,the man is alternately tearful and defensive.The culturally competent nurse assesses the labile behavior as being related to the Filipino belief that:

The nurse is aware that slow drug metabolism,which can cause oversedation with some tranquilizers and sedatives in individuals of other cultures,is a characteristic of:

The nurse learns at report that the patient is a member of a Seventh-Day Adventist group.At mealtime,which of the following trays should be served to this patient?

The nurse explains that a Hindu refers to the record of his or her life and its accomplishments as ____________________.

To help with effective planning for the delivery of transcultural nursing care,the nurse selects an approach that asks the:

Two licensed practical/vocational nurses (LPN/LVNs)are colleagues on the same medical-surgical floor.They went to the same LPN/LVN school.When on break time,they discuss the holistic entries of the nursing care plans they are helping create.This behavior is an example of:

The nurse should make her care plan to include considerations of cultural similarities that are:

The nurse is clearing the bedside area to give a bed bath to a Muslim woman the day after a cesarean section.The culturally sensitive nurse would:

When many cultures and subcultures exist within the same society,as they do in the large cities of the United States,these groups are referred to as:

The process in which children mature and take on the values of their families and their society is called ____________________.

The home health nurse prepares to teach a Hispanic patient who neither speaks nor reads English how to measure and administer insulin.The most helpful teaching tools would be a(n):

As breakfast trays are served,a Catholic patient asks the nurse to take it away,because a priest is coming to administer Communion.The response by the nurse should be:

A severely injured adult man is brought into the emergency department after an automobile accident and is given two units of O-negative blood while waiting for a cross-match to be completed for the other four units of blood that the physician has ordered.The nurse discovers a card identifying the man as a Jehovah's Witness.The nurse should:

The young Asian wife of a businessman recently transferred to the United States is brought to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy.The nurses make every effort to plan correct care.The integration of cultural concepts into the nursing care plan is known as which one of the following?