Reference no: EM133926051
Mary Curry Narayan, MSN, RN, CS, CTN.
1. Using Leininger's framework, the nurse classifying cultural assessment data would assign information to any of the following categories except
(a) helpful to the treatment plan and should be preserved
(b) neither helpful nor harmful, and can be safely incorporated into the care plan
(c) harmful and should be repatterned to be health-enhancing, but culturally acceptable
(d) harmful and even with repatterning, would be inappropriate for the care plan
2. The "A" in the mnemonic LEARN, used to restructure potentially harmful cultural behavior, prompts the nurse to
(a) acknowledge cultural differences and similarities
(b) assess the effect the practice will have on recovery
(c) assign an alternate but acceptable practice
(d) accept the patient's belief system and honor it at all times
3. The "R" in the mnemonic LEARN prompts the nurse to
(a) reject the patient's seriously harmful practices
(b) recommend a mutually acceptable care plan
(c) research cultural resources to find alternative practices
(d) remind the patient of the value of traditional medicine
4. Nurses are effective in practicing culturally competent care when they
(a) seek first to be understood, and then to understand
(b) seek to change patients' cultural practices that they deem harmful
(c) make sure that the patient understands that nurses are highly experienced in managing clinical problems
(d) try to understand the health problem from the patient's point of view
5. A patient who is acculturated
(a) maintains the traditions of the culture of origin
(b) has internalized a new culture's norms
(c) understands and can move in or out of an old or new culture
(d) has a global understanding of a wide variety of cultures