Reference no: EM133665589

Questions

1. According to Giger and Davidhizar's Transcultural

Assessment Model, how is transcultural nursing viewed?

As a culturally competent practice field that is client centered and research focused.

Nurses should not put their personal cultural beliefs aside.

Nurses must recognize and understand culture is to be avoided becoming grossly ethnocentric.

Nursing as a profession is not "culturally free"

2. What does culturally diverse nursing care refer too?

Nursing care that uses ones culture beliefs.

Variability in nursing approaches needed to provide culturally appropriate and competent care.

Health care professional develops an awareness of one's existence, sensations, thoughts

Using established practices, and attitudes that enable nurses to transform interventions into favorite health outcomes

3. What is the nursing implication for Native American Inuit people?

Monitor own body language closely as well as clients to detect meaning

Always touch the child you are examining or admiring

Clarify statements

Question the client's meaning or intent.

4. In 1981, what was known about the Navajo population?

Population was 35,000

Population was 21,000

Population was 151,000

Population was 27,000

5. What is the difference between Native Americans and American Indian?

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The terms Native American and American Indian are used interchangeably

American Indians live only in New Mexico where as Native

Americans are born to American Indians.

Native American is intended to imply tribes residing in the continental United States

Native Americans are those who live on reservations.

6. What do we know about the Navajo language?

The Navajo language does always have an equivalent single work for an English word.

The language does not use a descriptive, interpretive approach during translation.

In World War I, the Navajo code talkers were used as radio operators.

The majority of Navajo people still speak the native language

7. What is know about hand gestures when talking with a Navajo client?

There is no special consideration

More traditional Navajo teachings prohibit gestures made with the fingers

Pointing with one's finger at another person is a sign of respect

It is appropriate to point sharp objects toward the Navajo client.

8. What is a common practice of the Native American Inuit people related to time?

The often sleep late during extended periods of daylight.

They follow the Western day-night rhythm just like any on in the lower 48 states residents.

Rather than being structured by the clock, time is cyclical, based on naturally recurring phenomena: sunrise, sunset, days, nights, moons (months), and seasons.

They often sleep fewer hours during extended periods of darkness.

9. What must the nurse do to promote client daily routines?

Use Western time frame in order to get everything accomplished.

• The nurse needs to inquire about daily schedules before requiring medications to be taken at a certain time.

• The nurse should be rigid in scheduling appointments.

• Avoid appointments outside the normal 9-5 time frame.

10. What must the nurse know in order to work with Native American Inuit clients effectively?

The nurse must not modify approaches to client care accordingly client needs.

Nursing care measures must not be planned and implemented cooperatively with the client and family so that it is perceived as being culturally relevant

Certain biological concepts that are germane to the Inuit people are need to be know in order to give adequate care and avoid harmful care.

Maintain strict schedules and use patient education about needs to keep schedules

11. What are the metaparadigm for the Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model? (Select all that apply.)

Cultural competent care

Health and Health Status

Culturally sensitive environments

Culturally dissonance

12. What is said about cultural competency? (Select all that apply.)

An individual is culturally unique and as such is a product of experiences, cultural beliefs, and cultural norms.

An individual, system or health care agency that finds meaningful and useful care delivery strategies.

Dynamic, fluid and continuous process

Health care professional used personal beliefs and meaning of culture to delivery care

13. What is known about the Shamanism of the Native American Inuit peoples? (Select all that apply.)

Written information on Shamanism is limited because of the prohibitism of this religion by early missionaries.

Shamanism has remained a strong belief even with the introduction by Westerners.

Shamanism did not lose influence as the Inuit turned to the magic of medicine brought by the Westerners to cure the devastating infectious diseases.

Written information on Shamanism is not limited and a lot if information is available.