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NUR 208 FINAL EXAM NEWEST 2025 ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE 150 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS )
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A nurse is using the ESFT model to understand a patient's conception of a diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Which interview question would be MOST appropriate to assess the E aspect of this model—Explanatory model of health and illness?How do you get your medications?How does having COPD affect your lifestyle?Are you concerned about the side effects of your medications?Can you describe how you will take your medications? - ANSWER-b. The ESFT model guides providers in understanding a patient's explanatory model (a patient's conception of her or his illness), social and environmental factors, and fears and concerns, and also guides providers in
contracting for therapeutic approaches. Asking the questions:
"How does having COPD affect your lifestyle?" explores the explanatory model, "How do you get your medications?" refers to the social and environmental factor, "Are you concerned 1 / 4
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about the side effects of your medications?" addresses fears and concerns, and "Can you describe how you will take your medications?" involves therapeutic contracting.
The nurse practitioner sees patients in a community clinic that is located in a predominately White neighborhood. After performing assessments on the majority of the patients visiting the clinic, the nurse notes that many of the minority groups living within the neighborhood have lost the cultural characteristics that made them different. What is the term for this process?Cultural assimilation Cultural imposition Culture shock Ethnocentrism - ANSWER-a. When minority groups live within a dominant group, many members lose the cultural characteristics that once made them different in a process called assimilation. Cultural imposition occurs when one person believes that everyone should conform to his or her own belief system. Culture shock occurs when a person is placed in a different culture perceived as strange, and ethnocentrism is the belief that the ideas, beliefs, and practices of one's own cultural group are best, superior, or most preferred to those of other groups. 2 / 4
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A nurse states, "That patient is 78 years old—too old to learn how to change a dressing." What is the nurse demonstrating?Cultural imposition Clustering Cultural competency Stereotyping - ANSWER-d. Stereotyping is assuming that all members of a group are alike. This is not an example of cultural competence nor is the nurse imposing her culture on the patient.Clustering is not an applicable concept.
A young Hispanic mother comes to the local clinic because her baby is sick. She speaks only Spanish and the nurse speaks only English. What is the appropriate nursing intervention?Use short words and talk more loudly.Ask an interpreter for help.Explain why care can't be provided.Provide instructions in writing. - ANSWER-b. The nurse should ask an interpreter for help. Many facilities have a qualified interpreter who understands the health care system and can reliably provide assistance. Using short words, talking loudly, and providing instructions in writing will not help the nurse communicate with this patient. Explaining why care can't be 3 / 4
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provided is not an acceptable choice because the nurse is required to provide care; also, since the patient doesn't speak English, she won't understand what the nurse is saying.
A nurse is interviewing a newly admitted patient. Which question is considered culturally sensitive?"Do you think you will be able to eat the food we have here?" "Do you understand that we can't prepare special meals?" "What types of food do you eat for meals?" "Why can't you just eat our food while you are here?" - ANSWER-c. Asking patients what types of foods they eat for meals is culturally sensitive. The other questions are culturally insensitive.
A nurse is telling a new mother from Africa that she shouldn't carry her baby in a sling created from a large rectangular cloth.The African woman tells the nurse that everyone in Mozambique carries babies this way. The nurse believes that bassinets are safer for infants. This nurse is displaying what cultural bias?Cultural imposition Clustering Cultural competency
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