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The nurse should not maintain eye contact with a Korean patient because many Asians believe prolonged eye contact is ____ or rude.
Correct Answer: impolite
Rationale: Many Asians avoid eye contact, believing it to be impolite or rude.
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The nurse is caring for a patient who fasts during daylight hours during Ramadan. The nurse recognizes that the patient is adhering to the cultural beliefs of which culture?
- A. Muslims
- B. African Americans
- C. Chinese Americans
- D. Mexican Americans
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Muslims practice fasting during daylight hours during Ramadan.
The cultural characteristic of unwillingness to leave a current activity-which may result in late or missed appointments - is called ____
Correct Answer: elasticity
Rationale: Elasticity is the ethnic characteristic of being late or missing an appointment altogether because of involvement in a current activity.
The nurse is caring for a Mexican American patient who is in labor. How can this nurse best demonstrate cultural sensitivity?
- A. Encouraging female family members to be present for the delivery
- B. Encouraging the patient's spouse to be present for the delivery
- C. Asking the patient's spouse to see his baby before cutting the umbilical cord
- D. Asking the patient's spouse to hold the neonate before bathing the neonate
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: When caring for Mexican Americans, it is considered inappropriate for the husband to be present during birth. The father is not expected to see his wife or baby until both are cleaned and dressed.
A nurse is caring for an Orthodox Jewish woman immediately after she has given birth. What can the nurse expect regarding the spouse's participation in his wife's care?
- A. He will share a bed with the patient.
- B. He will ask to bathe with the patient.
- C. He will touch the patient frequently.
- D. He will avoid physical contact with the patient.
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: For observant Jews, a woman is considered to be in a ritual state of impurity whenever blood is coming from her uterus, such as during menstrual periods and after the birth of a child. During this time, her husband will not have physical contact with her. When this time is completed, she will bathe herself in a pool called a mikvah. Nurses need to be aware of this practice and be sensitive to the husband and wife because the husband will not touch his wife.
Following the death of a Presbyterian infant the nurse should help arrange for ____
Correct Answer: baptism
Rationale: Presbyterians believe in infant baptism.