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Nursing Roles 1210
Test #3 review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does a child exposed to vista fuerte experience? | Diarrhea |
| What is the first step to becoming a culturally sensitive nurse? | Conducting a cultural self assessment |
| What is ethnocentrism? | The belief that one's own ethic group, culture, or nation is best. |
| What is stereotyping? | Defined as assigning certain beliefs and behaviors to groups without recognizing individuality. |
| What is cultural accommodation? | Involves making adjustments or adaptations for beliefs of others. |
| What is empathy? | Mentally identifying with a person's situation or character |
| In the African-American culture who plays a key role in health care decisions? | Women, especially "Granny" |
| In Asian cultures who most often makes decision? | Males |
| True or false: In the Asian culture it is important for an individual to agree with those in authority and to appear compliant even if there is no intention of complying. | True |
| Who are identified as marginalized populations? | Recently arrived immigrants |
| What is cultural competence? | Becoming knowledgeable about the values, beliefs, and health care practices of the culturally diverse groups that are dominant in the nurse's practice area. |
| In the Southeast Asian culture why do they touch a burning cigarette or piece of cotton to the skin, usually the abdomen? | This is done to compensate for "heat" lost through diarrhea. |
| What do Asian American consume to prevent osteoporosis? | Pork bones and shells which are rich in calcium |
| What is filtration? | The unconscious exclusion of extraneous stimuli in communication. |
| What is blocking? | Occurs when the nurse responds with noncommital or generalized answers. |
| What is false assurance? | Showing a lack of concern or a lack of knowledge by responding with meaningless answers such as "don't worry." |
| What facilitates open communication? | Asking a question which requires mores than a yes or no answer. |
| What is communication? | A process that requires a sender, receiver and a message. |
| What is effective communication? | A dynamic process: with a response(feedback), the sender becomes the receiver and the receiver becomes the sender and the message changes. |
| What is a preconceived idea? | Conceptions, opinions, or thoughts that the receiver has developed before having an encounter. |
| What is interpretation? | The individual's analysis of communication that is based on context and environment, precipitating event, preconceived idea, personal perception, style of transmission and past experiences |
| What is context? | Refers to the entire situation that is relevant to the communication. |
| What is a precipitating event? | Refers specifically to the event or the situation that prompted a particular communication. |
| What is an appeal to common practice? | Occurs when the argument is made that something is okay because most people do it. |
| What is ad hominem abusive? | An argument that attacks the person instead of the issue. |
| What is an appeal to emotion? | An attempt to manipulate other people's emotions for the purpose of avoiding the real issue. |
| What is an appeal to tradition? | The argument that doing things a particular way is best because they've always been done that way. |
| What is a red herring? | The introduction of an irrelevant topic for the purpose of diverting attention away from the real issue. |
| What is a straw man? | Occurs when a person's position on a topic is misrepresented. |
| What is a slippery slope? | The belief that one event will inevitably follow another without any real support for that belief. |
| What constitutes confusing cause and effect? | When one assumes that one event must cause another just because the two events often occur together. |
| What is assertive communication? | An overall communication style in which the person displays the presence of positive declaration and persistently demonstrates confidence. |
| What is passive communication? | A form of communication in which the individual fails to say what is meant. |
| What is the time orientation in the Asian culture? | Time is viewed as being more flexible than in the Western culture; being on time for appointments is not seen as a priority. |
| What is susto? | An emotion-based illness common among Mexican. An unexpected fall, a barking dog, or a car accident could cause susto. |
| What is empacho? | A disease that can affect children or adults caused by food particles becoming lodged in the intestinal tract. |
| What is bilis? | A disease brought on by anger. It primarily affects adults and is commonly occurs a day or two after a fit of rage. |
| What is mal ojo? | Associated with the "evil eye." which causes fever, diarrhea and restlessness. |
| What are the six leading causes of death among minorities? | Cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke, chemical dependency, diabetes, homicides/accidents, and infant mortality. |
| What is the extreme negative manifestation of prejudice? | Hate in its many violent and nonviolent forms |
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