A nurse engages in professional rituals as a means to standardize ...

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A nurse engages in professional rituals as a means to standardize practice and ensure efficiency. In doing so, the nurse integrates understanding of which of the following as a characteristic?
 
  A) Preconceived and untested belief about people
  B) Viewing one's own culture as the only correct standard
  C) Common and observable expressions of culture
  D) Belief system held to varying degrees as absolute truth

Question 2

An Anglo American client reports to the primary health care facility with symptoms of fever, cough, and running nose. While interviewing the client, which of the following points should the nurse keep in mind?
 
  A) Do not probe into emotional issues.
  B) Do not ask very personal questions.
  C) Sit at the other corner of the room.
  D) Maintain eye contact while talking.

[Pamela.irrgang@yahoo.com]

Answer to Question 1

Ans: C
Rituals are common and observable expressions of culture. A preconceived and untested belief about people is called a stereotype. Viewing one's own culture as the only correct standard is ethnocentrism. A belief system held to varying degrees as absolute truth is referred to as culture.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: D
While interviewing an Anglo-American client, the nurse should maintain eye contact, because it indicates openness and sincerity. Anglo-Americans freely express positive and negative feelings; therefore, the nurse may probe into emotional issues. Anglo-American culture is an open culture, and members of this culture don't mind providing personal information. Also, Anglo-Americans are not threatened by closeness, so the nurse may not have to sit in another corner of the room.