Chapter 2: Cultural Competence

Which category is appropriate in a cultural assessment?

Health-related beliefs.

Which statement is most appropriate to use when initiating an assessment of cultural beliefs with an older American Indian patient?

"What cultural or spiritual beliefs are important to you?"

Magicoreligious causation of illness?

Belief in the struggle between good and evil is reflected in the regulation of health and illness.

The major factor contributing to the need for cultural care nursing is:

Demographic change.

Illness may be described as an imbalance of hot and cold among people of:

Hispanic-American heritage

Many of the traditional definitions of HEALTH tend to focus on:

Physical, mental, and spiritual harmony.

Priority influence on a patients health status?

Poverty.

Which statement best illustrates the difference between religion and spirituality?

Religion is characterized by identification of a higher being shaping one's destiny while spirituality reflects an individuals perception of one's life having worth or meaning.

Which statement is true in regard to pain?

The cultural background of a patient is important in a nurse's assessment of that patients pain.

An amulet may be used to protect a person from:

The evil eye.

Which statement best describes ethnocentrism?

The tendency to view your own way of life as the most desirable.

The first step to cultural competency by a nurse is to:

Understand your own heritage and its basis in cultural values.

"Culturally competent" implies that the nurse:

Understands the cultural context of the patient's situation.

Religion is best described as:

an organized system of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe.