Diversity Review

Everyone has the same access to healthcare and health services is an example of which of the following?

• Social equality

• Educational equality

• Health equality

• Wellness equality

Cultural competency means which of the following

• Knowing your culture

• Access to education

• Equal access in healthcare

• A set of behaviors, attitudes, and policies of healthcare professionals that enable them to better work with patients from diverse backgrounds and ethnic groups

True or False: Empathy means the ability to understand someone else's feelings.

• True

• False

Culturally competent care includes: Select all that apply

• .Providing healthcare brochures in different languages.

• Providing relevant training on cross-cultural issues to healthcare workers

• Encouraging healthy eating involving foods that are preferred by a patient's ethnic or cultural group

• Providing standard medical care for treatment of disease.

True or False: Receiving blood is acceptable for Jehovah's Witness patients.

• True

• False

In the healthcare system who are the patients?

• The providers

• The insurance

• The consumers

• The advocate

You are a patient who sought medical attention. You do not agree with the treatment the doctor ordered. Do you have the right to refuse that treatment?

• Yes

• No

You are caring for a patient who is scheduled to have surgery in the morning. He stated that he does not want to have the surgery. What should you do?

• Tell him to have the surgery anyway

• Tell the doctor

• Nothing

• Tell the EVS worker

You are caring for a patient who does not speak English. To deliver the best possible care what can you do?

• Ask a family member to translate

• Tell the doctor they cannot speak English

• Ask the chaplain for help

• Use an interpreting service

True or False: The patient has the right to refuse any procedure or treatment

• True

• False