Community Health
Cultural Diversity Questions
1. To understand the effects of culture on behavior, it is important for the community health nurse to know that culture is:
a. a blueprint for behavior of minority groups
b. determinant of the clients capacity to respond to a health problem
c. genetically transmitted to all individuals
d. a learned process that is transmitted by the family, ethnic group, and society.
2. The nurse overhears another practitioner telling a parent that her 7 year old daughter needs to have a procedure and wants to
schedule it immediately. The parent is hesitant. The nurse’s best approach would be the cultural competence action of?
a. cultural accommodation
b. cultural brokering
c. cultural desire
d. cultural repatterning
3. Match the following
a. insisting that the way your culture does things is the best (or only) way
b. the tendency to judge all individuals as the same
c. insisting that Asian clients make direct eye contact with nurses during a health-teaching program
d. an intense emotional response when working with clients from cultures other than your own
e. negative responses of clients to unacceptable
Sterotyping
Impositioning
Ethocentrisim
Conflct
Shock
4. The nurse contacts the institutions language interpretation services to communicate with her client and his family during an
initial clinical appointment because she does not speak the client’s language. This best demonstrates the nurse’s understanding
that
a. all individuals who speak a language may not be proficient in medical interpretation
b. family members are biased in their interpretation
c. having written material in the clients primary language is essential
d. the nurse should evaluate a clients reaction when questions are posed
5. Culturally competent nursing care can best be characterized by:
a. intergration of professional knowledge with the client’s knowledge and practices
b. care that is consistent with the client’s beliefs
c. client’s acceptance of the best western health care practices
d. a synergy between the ethnicity of the client and that of the nurse