Chapter 10 RADR 1201

A person’s hair color and texture as well as his or her skin condition would be an example of what area of human diversity?

• Mental and physical ability

• Social hierarchy

• Biologic variations

• Regional ethnicity

Answer explanation

To provide high-quality and effective care for all patients, health care providers need to understand six areas of human cultural diversity and how these areas influence the delivery of care. One of these areas includes biologic variations, which deals with ethnical or racially related differences in body structure, hair color, skin color, hair textures, and other biologic traits.

It is illegal to deny an individual the opportunity to advance professionally through employment because of

• personal hygiene.

• technical skills.

• gender.

• daycare needs.

Answer explanation

Gender role stereotyping is the expectation of how people should behave based solely on whether they are male or female beings. These stereotypes have nothing to do with the individual’s capabilities, but they limit his or her alternatives. Only by recognizing, promoting, and valuing the capabilities and contributions of individuals, male or female, can society embrace gender diversity as one of the essential elements for embracing human diversity.

A native-born Latino individual who has moved to the United States and successfully blended into local community activities, such as work, church, school, and volunteering, without losing his native culture demonstrates

• biculturalism.

• dual bias.

• assimilation.

• ethnocentrism

Answer explanation

Biculturalism is the ability of individuals to be able to negotiate competently two or more cultures, the mainstream culture and the individual’s own culture.

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 provides for all of the following conditions except

• legal protection against discrimination because of physical or mental disability.

• institutions must make reasonable accommodations for all individuals.

• employers must give preference to those with disabilities.

• guarantees basic human rights to persons with a disability.

Answer explanation

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 was a profound and necessary step in preventing discrimination against persons with disabilities. This Act provides protection under the law for people with mental and physical disabilities. It also directs institutions, especially those receiving federal funds, to make reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities.

In the process of preparing a Hmong patient for an interventional procedure, you discover the patient speaks no English. She has no family members with her and was escorted down by hospital transport. A necessary part of the examination is for the patient to complete an informed consent document. An effective strategy you could use to accomplish this would be

• asking a coworker to witness your explanation of the document and the patient’s signature.

• speaking slowly and deliberately in English and showing the patient where to sign the document.

• trying to act out the intent of the document through demonstration and modeling.

• delaying the procedure until a hospital translator can be present during the explanation.

Answer explanation

One of the major concerns of linguistic differences is informed consent. A patient cannot be truly informed if he or she does not understand what is attempted to be communicated to them. This failure places health care providers at great liability and serves as a barrier to medical treatment decisions. To provide improved medical care to individuals without or with limited English proficiency, many health care institutions are striving to overcome linguistic barriers to high-quality health care by providing translators and medical interpreters, bilingual documents, and employing more bilingual and multicultural staff.

As you are enjoying a light breakfast in a local coffee shop, a small group sits down at an adjacent table. As they talk, you overhear them making derogatory statements about people who are obese. Comments such as, “I can’t believe people can eat so much!” and “How can they let themselves get that way?” are typical of the conversation. One group member openly states, “Why can’t they be like us, fit and trim? Don’t they understand what they are doing to their bodies?” This group is demonstrating

• racism.

• biculturalism.

• ethnocentrism.

• assimilation.

Answer explanation

Ethnocentrism is regarded as the tendency of some individuals to view norms and values of their own culture as the only acceptable ones and to use them as the standard by which all other cultures are measured.

Which of the following would not reflect a human diversity characteristic?

• Gender

• Occupation

• Disability

• Race

Answer explanation

Diversity includes many human characteristics that affect our perceptions of ourselves and others, individual values, opportunities, and acceptance. Some of the most prevalent characteristics are age, disability, economic status, education, ethnicity, family status, first language, gender, geographic location, lifestyle, organizational level, physical characteristics, political affiliation, religious preference, sexual orientation, work style or ethic, and many others.

You are working as a radiographer in a small community hospital. As you get on the elevator to ride up to the cafeteria for your morning break, you are joined by a group of people who are quite vocal about the skin tone and dialect of the doctor that is taking care of one of their family members. This group inherently demonstrates a group

• consensus.

• consortium.

• bias.

• assimilation.

Answer explanation

Everyone has at least one personal bias. These biases, whether based on reason or simply perceptions of human characteristics, are real. The impact of some biases can be lessened through knowledge. The more that is known about a subject, the better the understanding of the subject will lessen bias behavior. Typical bias traits include age, ethnicity, national origin, race, gender, sexual orientation, mental and physical ability, and religious beliefs.

A social organization that seeks to understand and accept peoples from diverse backgrounds through policies and procedures, communication media, activities, and so on, in an effort to achieve a positive cross-cultural environment, is seeking to achieve

• segregation.

• consensus.

• cultural competency.

• social autonomy

Answer explanation

Cultural competency is defined as possessing a set of attitudes, behaviors, and policies that come together in a system, or among individuals, that enable effective interactions in a cross-cultural framework

Another term for human diversity is

• independence.

• social autonomy.

• cultural diversity.

• existentialism.

Answer explanation

Human diversity, also called cultural diversity, addresses the variety of human societies and cultures and examines their similarities and differences. Human diversity simply means the differences inherent among people. Studies indicate that these differences are what make each person unique and valuable in his or her own right.