A nurse is working with a cultural group that has many ...

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A nurse is working with a cultural group that has many proscriptions against women seeking health care. What action by women in this community would indicate that they have successfully negotiated a new role in seeking care?
 
  A.
  Are able to make and keep medical appointments
  B.
  Can afford to pay for desired health-care services
  C.
  Follow their traditional roles and responsibilities
  D.
  Seek health-care advice from family members

Question 2

What does the practicing nurse understand to be the most important influence on interdependent, assertive nursing practice today?
 
  A.
  Higher education of registered nurses
  B.
  Improved working conditions and salaries
  C.
  Increased numbers of female physicians
  D.
  Use of the nursing process for patient care

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: A
Cultural proscriptions are beliefs, practices, and values of a group that tell women and children what they should not do. In many traditional cultures, women do not have permission, decision-making power, or means to access the health-care system. If the women from such a culture successfully negotiate their roles regarding health care, they can access the health-care system on their own. The ability to afford services is not related, although cultural proscriptions might forbid women from making such a transaction. If they follow their traditional roles or seek health care from family members, they have not demonstrated a successful negotiation of a new role.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Nurses were passive, deferential, and compliant to the knowledge and orders of mostly male physicians until the late 20th century. The nursing process changed that. The nursing process is a framework for systematic problem solving and implementation of both independent and dependent nursing actions. The nursing process allows nurses to make decisions regarding patient care based on critical thinking and clinical judgment. The other options listed were not vital in creating a nursing practice that is interdependent and assertive.