Cultural Considerations in Health Care Assessment

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What should you do if a patient holds an unusual religious object while praying?

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Handle the religious object with care and respect

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Which of the following is correct when interacting with patients of different ethnic or cultural groups?

• Do not include their family members in any conversations
• Do not try to speak their native language
• Do not allow yourself to make value judgments
• Always assume that they have the same attitudes and values that you do

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Do not allow yourself to make value judgments

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What is true about religion and spirituality in a health care facility?

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It is a patient’s right to practice his or her religious beliefs, even if they are different from others in the health care facility.

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A strategy for communicating with patients of other cultures includes:

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Use flash cards or a communication board with patients who do not speak English to help reduce anxiety and stress.

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A belief that the existence of God can neither be proved or disproved

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Agnostic

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Your patient refuses to eat hospital food due to religious beliefs. What should you do?

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Report this to the nurse, they may be able to arrange special considerations for the patient.

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A traditional spiritual leader, healer, or medicine man is known as

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A shaman

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The nursing assistant has an Asian patient who says very little and looks down when the nursing assistant is speaking to her.

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This may be respectful in their culture

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Charms against evil are called

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Amulets

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The classification of people according to shared physical characteristics such as skin color, bone structure, facial features, hair texture and blood type is known as

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Race