Chapter 1: Traditional and Community Nursing Care for Women, Families and Children
Maternal-Child Nursing Care: Optimizing Outcomes for Mothers, Children, and Families 2nd Edition
Test Bank
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The clinic nurse understands the new description of nursing art/aesthetics as the way that nurses
and patients help each other through a circular process. What is the event that beginsthis process?
A. A health threat
B. Experiencing new possibilities for health
C. Hope and understanding for the future
D. Relationship building
ANS: A
Nursing aesthetics consists of the low-tech, high-touch caring in a nurse–patient encounter.This
transformative process begins with a health threat. The event that begins the process isnot
experiencing new possibilities for health, hope and understanding for the future, or relationship
building.
Cognitive Level: Knowledge/Remembering
Content Area: Pediatrics/Maternity
Patient Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
Integrated Process: Caring
Difficulty: Moderate
PTS: 1
2. A nurse manager in a community clinic is concerned because the local refugee populationdoes
not seek health care routinely. What action by the nurse would be most helpful?
A. Assess clinic staff and procedures for evidence of ethnocentrism.
B. Put up flyers advertising the clinic’s services in local retailers.
C. Reward preventative health patients with coupons for needed items.
D. Try to meet with community leaders to work on the problem.
ANS: A
Ethnocentrism is the view that the beliefs, values, and behaviors of one culture are superior tothose of
other cultures. Ethnocentrism is dangerous in health care because it is blind to the possibilities of other
solutions and viewpoints and alienates people in need of health care. Thenurse manager would be wise