When Assessing the Needs of Patients, It Is Disrespectful for the Health

question 5

Multiple Choice

When assessing the needs of patients, it is disrespectful for the health care professional to:

• A) collect information about their health care beliefs.
• B) make assumptions about their cultural backgrounds.
• C) realize that their values may be different from their own.
• D) ask about their family relationships.

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Definitions:

Frequency

The rate at which an event or occurrence happens within a given period of time.

Stereotype

A generalized belief or expectation about a particular group or class of people that individuals apply to members of that group.

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

A prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior.

Social Cognition

The study of how people process social information, including understanding others, social attitudes, and cognition in social contexts.