NUR 1060C Study Guide Exam 1
What are the ten traps of interviewing? - ✔️✔️1. Providing false assurance or
reassurance
2. Giving unwanted advice
3. Using authority
4. Using avoidance language
5. Engaging in distancing
6. Using professional jargon
7. Using leading or biased questions
8. Talking too much
9. Interrupting
10. Using "why" questions
What is the purpose of each part? - ✔️✔️- assessment: info gathered to establish a
foundation upon which all patient care moving forward is established
- diagnosis: data analysis, identification of the patient's health problem, risks and
strengths, and formation of diagnostic statements
- outcomes/planning: care plans for personalized patient care based on client's needs
- implementation: promote positive patient outcomes, measure patient responses to
interventions
- evaluation: patient's progress toward achieving established goals and outcomes
What is the importance of evidence based practice? - ✔️✔️- reflects a holistic practice
and is not primary clinical
- involves the integration of research evidence, clinical expertise, clinical knowledge,
and patient values and preferences
What groups are affected by healthcare disparities? - ✔️✔️Health disparities affect
people who experience social,economic, and/or environmental disadvantage.
vulnerable population: ethnic and racial minorities, people with disabilities and the
LGBTQ community
What is health disparities? - ✔️✔️Health disparities are preventable differences in the
burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are
experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
What is acculturative stress and examples? - ✔️✔️acculturative stress involves the
losses and chances that occur when adjusting to or integrating a new system of beliefs,
routines and social roles
ex: environmental - financial, language barrier, lack of access to health care
Social/interpersonal- loss of social networks, family conflict, changing gender roles
Societal- legal status, discrimination, stigma
, What are the health related beliefs and practices? - ✔️✔️1. Biomedical or scientific:
Cause and effect that can provide physical and psychological illnesses
ex: germ theory
2. Naturalistic or holistic: Belief in the forces of nature that there is balance in the
universe
ex: yin/yang theory
3. Magicoreligious: Supernatural forces dominate resulting in good versus evil,
ex: voodoo or faith healing
4. Folk healers: Hispanic: curandero, espiritualista, yerbo, or sabedor
Black: hougan, spiritualist, old lady
American Indian: shaman, medicine woman, medicine man
Asian: herbalists, acupuncturists, bone setters
Amish: braucher
What is transcultural expression of pain? - ✔️✔️- Expectations, manifestations, and
management of pain are all embedded in a cultural context.
- Pain has been found to be a highly personal experience, depending on cultural
learning, the meaning of the situation, and other factors unique to the person.
- Silent suffering has been identified as the most valued response to pain by health care
professionals.
What is the nursing process? - ✔️✔️the standards of practice in nursing that includes
- assessment
- diagnosis
- planning
- implementation
- evaluation
Importance of open-ended questions? - ✔️✔️The open-ended question is unbiased
and allows the patient to freely answer questions in whichever way they'd like.
It allows the patient to express themselves fully.
Lean forward slightly and make eye contact, looking interested. This will cue the patient
to continue his or her story if they pause in between.
What are the nonverbal behaviors of the interviewer? - ✔️✔️- Physical appearance:
Image as an initial perception
- Posture: Interpretation of body language affecting engagement
- Gestures: Sending messages—be aware
- Facial expression: Reflects emotion and culture
- Eye contact: Maintain within the realm of interest but be mindful of cultural diversity.
- Voice: Be aware of tone, intensity, and rate of speech.
- Touch: Interpretation is influenced by age, gender, cultural background, past
experience, and current setting.
