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Spirituality and Cultural Competence Quiz

Enhance your understanding of spirituality and cultural influences in healthcare through our engaging quiz. This is an excellent opportunity for healthcare professionals to evaluate their knowledge and improve their patient interactions.

Test your knowledge on spirituality in nursing
Explore cultural competence and its importance
Enhance your patient care strategies

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The nurse is assessing a patient's spirituality and observes the patient meditating before any treatments. What is the nurse’s best action?

Document that the patient is not religious

Offer the patient a copy of the bible to read

Arrange for quiet time for the patient as needed

Limit the time patient can meditate before procedures

When conducting a spiritual assessment of a hospitalized patient, the nurse should remain aware of which potential barrier to effective communication?

Clarifying the meaning of a patient’s statement

Multi-tasking while talking to the patient

Listening to patients’ complete statements

Discussing patient’s feelings while hospitalized

A patient uses rosary beads and attends mass once a week. This expression of spirituality is best described with which term?

Religiosity

Faith

Belief

Authenticity

When developing a plan of care, the nurse should consider which attribute of the concept of spirituality?

Spirituality is not a well-known universal concept

Chronic versus acute illnesses affect spirituality

Convincing patients to pray is a priority intervention

Referrals may be needed to spiritual counselors

When completing the FICA tool for spiritual assessment, which questions should the nurse ask the patient? (Select all that apply.)

What things do you believe in that give meaning to life?

Are you connected with a faith center in your community?

How has your illness affected your personal beliefs?

When was the last time you have been to church?

What can I do for you?

Which are true statements about the definition of spirituality in nursing? (Select all that apply.)

Patient’s quality of life, health, and sense of wholeness are affected by spirituality

An exact definition was developed and adopted in the late 1980s

Encompasses principle, an experience, attitudes, and belief regarding God

Head knowledge affects spirituality more than heart knowledge

Mind, body, spirit, love, and caring are interconnected

The nurse recognizes that which life events can be spiritually life changing? (Select all that apply.)

The nurse is caring for an older Chinese adult male who is grimacing and appears restless after abdominal surgery. What is the nurse’s best action?

Ask the patient if he is anxious about his hospital stay.

Ask the patient about pain and assess vital signs.

Ask the patient about any history of depression or anxiety.

Understanding cultural differences in health care is important because it will help the nurse to understand the manner in which people decide on obtaining treatments and medical care. In independent cultures an individual will

Put himself first.

Consult family members for advice.

Ask for a second opinion.

Travel great distances to receive the best care.

When teaching an Asian patient with newly diagnosed diabetes, the nurse notes the patient nodding yes to everything that is being said. With a better understanding of cultural interdependence in self-concept, a nurse should immediately

Write everything down for the patient to refer to later.

Prompt further to elicit additional questions or concerns.

Call the recognized elder for this patient.

Call the oldest male relative for help with decision making.

Women who are given the job of caretaker for aging relatives are subject to caregiver strain due to

Feminine attributes.

Unequal gender.

Fixed gender roles.

Female inequality.

A 60-year-old Italian immigrant presents for an annual physical. He is counseled about diagnostic testing including laboratory testing, colonoscopy, influenza vaccination, and pneumococcal vaccination. His reply is “If it ain’t broke, don’t try to fix it.” When developing a plan of care, the nurse should consider which cultural orientation for this patient?

Short term

Long term

Leisurely term

Noncommittal

The emphasis on understanding cultural influence on health care is important because of

Disability entitlements.

HIPAA requirements.

Increasing global diversity.

Litigious society.

What interrelated constructs facilitate a nurse to become culturally competent?

Cultural diversity, self-awareness, cultural skill, and cultural knowledge

Cultural desire, self-awareness, cultural knowledge, and cultural identity

Cultural desire, self-awareness, cultural knowledge, and cultural diversity

Cultural desire, self-awareness, cultural knowledge, and cultural skill

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