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Worksheet time: 27mins
Which of the following concerns are examined when providing culturally competent care? Select all that apply:
Lifestyle goals and choices
Relationships
Hobbies and interests
Nutritional preferences
Highest level of education
Which of the following is NOT one of the instruments used to assess cultural competence in nurses?
Transcultural Self-Efficacy Tool Test (TSET)
Test for Culturally Competent Nurses (TCCN)
Cultural Self-Efficacy Scale (CSES)
Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competency (IAPCC)
A nurse is interviewing a newly admitted patient. Which question is considered culturally appropriate?
"What types of food do you eat for meals?"
"Do you understand that we can't prepare special meals?"
"Do you think you will be able to eat the food we offer here?"
"Why can't you just eat our food while you are here?"
A young Hispanic mother comes to the local clinic because her baby is sick. She only speaks fluent Spanish and the nurse only speaks English. What is the appropriate nursing intervention?
Provide written instructions in the patient's language
Explain that the nurse is unable to care for the patient
Use short words and talk loudly
Request an interpreter for assistance
True or False: The ability of a nurse to provide adequate medical care to every patient is called cultural preference.
True
False
A nurse is American-born and works in a large hospital with patients from many cultures. What must this nurse develop to provide the best care?
Another language
Cultural competence
Assessment skills
Care planning capability
Culture varies from patient to patient. Why is it important that the nurse understands and accepts each patient as an individual?
To develop a plan of care for the patient
To identify the differences between the patient and nurse
To provide support for each patient
To provide holistic care to the patient
The nurse is conducting an assessment on an American Indian woman who has come to the clinic complaining of a headache. The patient tells the nurse that the remedies prescribed by her tribal healer have "done some good". Which response by the nurse is appropriate at this time?
"Tell me about these remedies and how often you are using them."
"I advise you to refrain from following the remedies recommended by the tribal healer."
"Could these remedies cause your headaches?"
"Maybe you should increase the frequency of the healer's remedies."
The behaviors, customs, arts, and beliefs of a particular group of people are called
Knowledge
Culture
Ideas
Morals
Which of the following is NOT considered a barrier to accessing health care within diverse groups?
Language
Religion
Profession
Nutrition
During a team huddle, the nurse manager highlights success stories of culturally competent interventions that improved patient trust and satisfaction, motivating the team to continue integrating cultural values into care. Which aspect of the TIP Model is demonstrated?
Transformational
Inspirational
Participative
Authoritative
A charge nurse facilitates a discussion among staff nurses from different cultural backgrounds to determine culturally appropriate ways of communicating with non-English-speaking patients. What is the main benefit of this Participative approach?
It increases staff dependency on the leader
It reduces accountability among team members
It promotes engagement and cultural understanding
It allows the leader to avoid making tough decisions
A head nurse mentors staff to develop cultural competence, encourages innovative strategies for culturally congruent care, and recognizes nurses who effectively bridge cultural gaps. Which TIP Model component is most evident?
Transformational
Inspirational
Participative
Situational
A nurse manager inspires her multicultural team by sharing a vision of a care environment where every patient’s cultural beliefs are respected and integrated into nursing care. Which aspect of the TIP Model does this illustrate?
Transformational
Inspirational
Participative
Authoritarian
A nurse leader encourages culturally diverse staff members to share their perspectives on patient care practices that reflect their cultural values. She integrates these ideas into the unit’s care plan. Which component of Boyle’s TIP Model is being demonstrated?
Transformational
Inspirational
Participative
Transactional
Despite being busy, a nurse eagerly attends a workshop on cultural competence and shows genuine passion for learning how to care for patients from various cultures. Which component of Bacote’s model does this demonstrate?
Cultural knowledge
Cultural desire
Cultural skill
Cultural Awareness
A nurse volunteers to work in a multicultural community clinic to meet people of different ethnic backgrounds and improve her understanding of diverse beliefs. Which component of Campinha-Bacote’s model applies?
Cultural awareness
Cultural knowledge
Cultural encounter
Cultural skill
You are caring for a Chinese patient who prefers using herbal teas for minor illnesses. You assess the patient’s use of these remedies and discuss possible interactions with prescribed medications. What element of Bacote’s model is shown?
Cultural knowledge
Cultural encounter
Cultural desire
Cultural skill
A nurse takes time to study about the traditional healing practices of Indigenous Filipino communities to better understand her patient’s background. Which concept in Campinha-Bacote’s model is being demonstrated?
Cultural knowledge
Cultural desire
Cultural encounter
Cultural awareness
During your clinical duty, you are assigned to care for a Muslim patient who refuses pork-based medications. You respect her decision and coordinate with the pharmacist for an alternative drug. Which component of Campinha-Bacote’s model does this situation best reflect?
Cultural awareness
Cultural knowledge
Cultural skill
Cultural desire
What is NOT included in the components of culturally competent ethical decision making?
Human rights
Ethical principles
Culturally congruent actions
Personal assessment of cultural biases
What is the component of culture care preservation or maintenance trying to achieve?
Professional actions and decisions that help people of a particular culture retain and preserve relevant care values so that they can maintain their wellbeing and recover from illness or face disabilities or death.
Professional actions and decisions that help a designated culture adapt to or negotiate with others for beneficial or satisfying health outcomes
contribute to the cultural context of human experiences and need to be assessed, interpreted, examined, and evaluated when clients interact with nurses and other members of the interprofessional health care team
Professional decisions that help clients reorder, change, or greatly modify their lifeways.
Who is the author of the Ethical Decisions Model?
Joyce Newman Giger
Larry Purnell
Dula Paquiao
Ruth Davidhizar
Which of the following is NOT included in the 4 levels of cultural knowledge that must be established in order to apply the Ethical Decisions Model?
Cultural values, meanings and practices of clients and families
Organizational assumptions that affect the situation
Dominant professional norms such as ethical codes that influence practitioners
Personal biases and beliefs that affect how you treat the patient.
The Ethical Decisions Model in nursing emphasizes the importance of considering cultural factors when making ethical choices this model mainly serves as?
A. A tool for healthcare providers to help develop the ability to think through an ethical dilemma and arrive at a morally correct decision.
B. A tool for healthcare providers to help develop the ability to think through an ethical dilemma and arrive at an ethical decision.
C. Analyzes the degree in which people identifies with traditional cultures. Which is termed Cultural Heritage Consistency.
D. A culturally appropriate model must recognize differences in groups while also avoiding stereotypical approaches to client care
In the Sunrise Model, the outermost rays represent:
Worldview and social structure dimensions
Nursing actions and decisions
Patient outcomes
The nurse-patient relationship
Which statement best describes culture care repatterning or restructuring?
Maintaining all existing health practices
Encouraging patients to abandon their culture
Modifying harmful cultural practices to improve health outcomes
Imposing Western health beliefs on clients
The Sunrise Model identifies which of the following as a cultural and social structure dimension?
Genetic factors
Technological factors
Physiological processes
Pharmacological influences
Leininger’s theory emphasizes that culture and care are:
Mutually exclusive
Universally standardized
Closely interrelated
Opposing concepts
The main focus of Leininger’s Sunrise Model is:
Disease prevention
Culturally congruent nursing care
Health promotion through technology
Evidence-based medicine
A nurse notes that her patient values punctuality and schedules appointments precisely on time. Which cultural phenomenon does this reflect?
Environmental Control
Social Organization
Time Orientation
Communication
In the Giger and Davidhizar model, which cultural phenomenon focuses on a person’s comfort with physical closeness, eye contact, and touch?
Space
Time
Communication
Environmental Control
Before a surgery, a client asks to have a priest bless her and sprinkle holy water on her hospital bed. This is an example of:
Restoring health
Protecting health
Maintaining health
Religious superstition
Which of the following practices represents protecting health?
Meditation and yoga for well-being
Wearing amulets to ward off illness
Taking antibiotics after infection
Attending rehabilitation sessions
A nurse observes that a family practices prayer rituals and fasting together every Friday to strengthen their faith and “keep the family healthy and safe.” Which health-related dimension does this practice emphasize in Spector’s model?
Social
Spiritual
Environmental
Physical
Which of the following is not one of the six cultural phenomena in Giger and Davidhizar’s model?
A. Communication
B. Nutrition
C. Time
D. Biological variations
According to Giger and Davidhizar, culture is best defined as:
A fixed trait that does not change over time
A patterned behavioral response developed through social and religious influences
A personal lifestyle choice unrelated to health
A scientific approach to modern nursing
Which of the following best describes the focus of the Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model?
Understanding the patient’s genetic predispositions only
Assessing cultural differences among individuals to provide culturally competent care
Promoting uniform nursing care regardless of cultural background
Identifying religious beliefs as the sole determinant of health behavior
A nurse caring for a Chinese client learns that the client believes illness occurs due to an imbalance between hot and cold forces in the body. The nurse includes warm soups and herbal teas in the diet plan as per the client’s request. What nursing action is demonstrated here?
Applying the Health Traditions Model by supporting culturally congruent care
Discouraging folk beliefs and focusing on evidence-based medicine
Promoting acculturation by replacing traditional practices with modern ones
Ignoring traditional practices that lack scientific proof
A 60-year-old Filipino man recovering from pneumonia tells the nurse that he is drinking salabat (ginger tea) and using hilot (traditional massage) to help him regain strength. What concept from the Health Traditions Model is this behavior most consistent with?
Maintaining health
Protecting health
Restoring health
Preventing illness
The Biocultural Ecology domain primarily examines:
Cultural values in decision-making
Genetic, hereditary, and environmental factors affecting health
Religious beliefs and practices
Economic barriers to healthcare
In Purnell’s Model, the Communication domain focuses on which of the following aspects?
Family traditions and customs
Verbal and nonverbal language patterns, eye contact, touch, and personal space
Dietary restrictions and food preferences
Beliefs about health and illness
How can nurses use Purnell’s Model in clinical practice?
To judge cultural differences among patients
To create culturally sensitive assessments and care plans
To eliminate cultural diversity in health care
To focus only on the patient’s physical health needs
Which cultural domain involves understanding family decision-making patterns, gender roles, and household organization?
Communication
Family Roles and Organization
Workforce Issues
Biocultural Ecology
What does the outermost ring in Purnell’s Model represent?
The community
The family unit
The global society
The individual
What are the transcultural nursing principles?
Respect for human rights
Focus is essential for health
Provide meaningfully and benefit in health care practices
Fundamental guide nurses decisions
What is culture care?
Culture care is defined as the cognitively learned
Culture and care are tightly linked together and interdependent
Focusing on discovering patterns
Enabling acts to provide means for the health
What does that mean about cultural diversity?
cultural diversity helps nurses to value different culture-specific
Culture diversity refers to the variations resulting from differences in values
Cultural diversity is an influence in the day living
Cultural diversity is very sensitive
What is the role of nurses in transcultural nursing?
Educator
Assessor
Promotor
Provocator
What is the definition of transcultural nursing?
Learning about study and practice on comparative human caring
Learning about differences and similarities of beliefs
Only learning about similarities of lifeways
Only practice to the difference values
There were 683 People living with Tuberculosis in the Philippines in 2023
True
False
Worldview is how people look at the world, or the universe, and form a “picture or value stance” about the world and their lives.
True
False
It is defined as obtaining a sound educational foundation concerning the various worldviews of different cultures
Cultural Desire
Cultural Knowledge
Cultural Awareness
Cultural Skills
Foreign nurses in Saudi Arabia comprise about 90% of the total number of nurses and are mostly Indian, Filipino and Malaysian.
True
False
What is the Life Expectancy at birth for Females in Saudi Arabia?
65.8
65.6
65.1
65.5
The leading cause of Death in the Philippines in 2021 is Stroke.
True
False
A self-regulated healthcare professional who is a graduate of a university or college of nursing/midwifery and has successfully passed the licensure exam set by the nursing and midwifery body.
Registered Nurse/ Midwife
Nurse/Midwife Technician
Nurse/Midwife Specialist
The N in LEARN Model stands for:
Nursing
Negotiate
Normality
Nurses Licensure
The Compulsory Education in Saudi Arabia is:
Completion of Grade 7
Completion of Grade 10
Completion of Grade 9
Completion of Higher Education
A learned subfield or branch of nursing that focuses upon the comparative study and analysis of cultures concerning nursing and health-illness caring practices, beliefs, and values
Ethnonursing
Transcultural Nursing
Worldview
Cultural Competence
