When Preparing an In-Service for Staff Nurses Regarding Health Disparity,which

question 21

Multiple Choice

When preparing an in-service for staff nurses regarding health disparity,which definition should the nurse include in the presentation?

• A) Factors that help explain why some people experience poorer health than others.
• B) Describes the health of a person or community along with the many measures that contribute to this health.
• C) Achieved when every person has the opportunity to attain his or her health potential and no one is disadvantaged.
• D) Differences in the incidence,prevalence,mortality rate,and burden of diseases that exist among specific populations.

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Definitions:

Self-awareness

An understanding of one's personal attributes, feelings, intentions, and aspirations.

Deindividuation

Deindividuation is a psychological state occurring in group settings that leads to a reduction in self-awareness and an increase in impulsivity and deviation from typical behavior, often resulting in actions not typically exhibited alone.

Self-discrepancy Theory

Higgins’s theory about the consequences of making actual – ideal and actual – ‘ought’ self-comparisons that reveal self-discrepancies.

Festinger

Leon Festinger was a psychologist known for the theory of cognitive dissonance, which describes the discomfort felt when holding conflicting thoughts or beliefs.