FGCU Nursing: Health Assessment Part
EXAM 1 with complete solutions
2024/2025
acculturation - ANSWER- process of social and psychological exchanges with
encounters between persons of different cultures, resulting in changes in either
group
cultural and linguistic competence - ANSWER- a set of congruent behaviors,
attitudes, and policies that come together in a system among professionals that
enables work in cross-cultural situations
cultural care - ANSWER- professional health care that is culturally sensitive,
appropriate, and competent
culture - ANSWER- the nonphysical attributes of a person- the thoughts,
communications, actions, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic,
religious, or social groups
ethnicity - ANSWER- a social group within the social system that claims to
possess variable traits such as a common geographic origin, migratory status,
and religion
ethnocentrism - ANSWER- tendency to view your own way of life as the most
desirable, acceptable, or best and to act in a superior manner to another culture's
way of life
folk healer - ANSWER- lay healer in the person's culture apart from the
biomedical or scientific health care system
, health or illness - ANSWER- the balance or imbalance of the person, both within
one's being (physical, mental, and/or spiritual) and in the outside world (natural,
communal, and/or metaphysical)
religion - ANSWER- an organized system of beliefs concerning the cause, nature,
and purpose of the universe, as well as attendance at regular services
socialization - ANSWER- the process of being raised within a culture and
acquiring the characteristics of that group
spirituality - ANSWER- a broad term focused on a connection to something larger
than oneself, and a belief in transcendence
title VI (6) of the civil rights act of 1964 - ANSWER- a federal law that mandates
that when people with limited English proficiency (LEP) seek health care in health
care settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, daycare centers, and
mental health centers, services cannot be denied to them
values - ANSWER- a desirable or undesirable state of affairs and a universal
feature of all cultures
child emotional abuse - ANSWER- any pattern of behavior that harms a child's
emotional development or sense of self-worth. It includes frequent belittling,
rejection, threats, and withholding love and support
child neglect - ANSWER- failure to provide for a child's basic needs (physical,
educational, medical, and emotional)
child physical abuse - ANSWER- physical injury resulting from punching, beating,
kicking, biting, burning, shaking, or otherwise harming a child. Even if the parent
or caregiver did not intend to harm the child, such acts are considered abuse
when done purposefully
child sexual abuse - ANSWER- includes fondling a child's genitals, incest,
penetration, rape, sodomy, indecent exposure, and commercial exploitation
through prostitution or the production of pornographic materials
elder abuse - ANSWER- willful infliction of force that results in bodily harm, pain,
and/or impairment on a person age 65 years or older. Examples include pushing,
slapping, hitting, shaking, burning, and rough handling