A Nurse Is Teaching an In-Service for New Nurses on the Importance

question 10

Multiple Choice

A nurse is teaching an in-service for new nurses on the importance of cultural sensitivity when caring for patients. Which of the following statements is incorrect?

• A)Ethnic diversity of health-care staff plays little role in the reduction of health-care inequalities.
• B)Translators should always be used when a patient does not speak English as a primary language.
• C)Nurses and other health-care workers may often display discriminatory behavior without realizing it.
• D)Nurses must always work as patient advocates to make sure that the patient is receiving culturally sensitive care.

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Definitions:

Aversive Conditioning

A form of behavioral training in which noxious stimuli are associated with undesirable behaviors to reduce their occurrence.

Cognitive-behavioral Therapy

A form of psychotherapy that treats problems and boosts happiness by modifying dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and thoughts.

Transference

In psychoanalysis, the process by which emotions and desires originally associated with one person are unconsciously shifted to another person.

Token Economy

A behavior modification method that uses tokens as a form of immediate reinforcement for exhibiting desired behaviors.