1. What is culture?
A: Culture is the shared set of customs, practices, beliefs, and attitudes that are unique to a specific group of people.
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2. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur would most likely be important to which type of patient?
A: Jewish
3. To overcome language barriers, your patient requires the use of an interpreter. How should this change your interactions with the patient?
A: It shouldn’t. You should still address the patient like you would normally.
4. What should you do if you are uncomfortable participating in a patient’s religious practices?
A: Talk to a the RN caring for the patient, who can help direct you toward a hospital chaplain or other religious figure who will assist in meeting the patient’s religious and spiritual needs.
5. How can you best support a patient’s spiritual needs?
A: Take the time to listen to what matters most to them. Treat their beliefs and ideas with caring and respect, even if you do not necessarily agree with them.
6. What is ethnocentrism?
A: Ethnocentrism is judging another culture based on your own cultural beliefs and experiences.
7. You have a resident who insists on praying five times a day at specific times. Based on this information, you know he likely is a practicing “__ .”
A: Muslim
8. Generally speaking, which cultures typically would frown upon a male caretaker caring for a female patient?
A: Arab, Middle Eastern, Orthodox Jewish
9. During Lent, it would be inappropriate to offer a Catholic patient which food on Friday?
A: meat
10. In some Asian and Hispanic cultures, direct eye contact may be seen as ____?
A: aggressive, rude, or confrontational