Exam 9: Global Health

The nurse is caring for an Indigenous patient who has had recent surgery.In the patient's culture,it is a sign of weakness to complain of pain.In the nurse's culture,people who are having pain ask for pain medicine.The nurse has assumed that the patient has not been having pain and does not need medication because he has not complained of pain.What is the nurse doing?

A nursing student is performing a cultural assessment of their patient.When the student asks,"Who makes the decisions for you or your family?" what is the nurse assessing?

Prevention programs for populations is the main focus of which of the following?

Which of the following is considered a noncommunicable disease? (Select all that apply. )

When a cultural assessment is performed,knowledge of a patient's country of origin and its history and ecological contexts is known as what?

Members of a Chinese family that has been in Canada for 5 years have learned to speak English and have adopted certain Western customs but have continued to adhere to their values,beliefs,and traditions.What is this process referred to as?

A nursing student is caring for a patient who has just immigrated to Canada from Ghana.The student just had a class on cultural safety and wants to practise doing a cultural assessment.What should the nursing student know?

In understanding health inequity,what does the nurse know?

The nurse learns about cultural issues involved in the patient's health care belief system and enables patients and families to achieve meaningful and supportive care.Such care is known as what?

When caring for a patient of a different culture,it is important for the nurse to understand which of the following?

When asked to describe the differences between ethnicity and race,what should the student nurse explain?

Which of the following are characteristics of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? (Select all that apply. )

Time takes on different meanings from one culture to another.Understanding this,when planning nursing interventions,the nurse should

The nurse recognizes the terminology that applies to culture and ethnicity.Ethnicity is defined as what?

Which of the following is an outcome of nursing education that enables safe service to be defined by those who receive the service?

The nurse is caring for a patient who has emigrated from another country.The patient needs abdominal surgery but seems reluctant to sign the surgical permits.What is one tactic that the nurse should use?

The nurse may work with patients from many different cultural backgrounds.Nurses,unfortunately and inadvertently,may impose their own cultural beliefs on patients.Which of the following is an example of a nurse imposing personal perspectives on a patient?

What characterizes culturally congruent care?