When working with people, nurses should be aware that all but one of the following statements is a characteristic of culture. Culture is
a. learned c. static
b. taught d. social
C
Culture is not static or uniform among all members within cultural groups. Culture represents adaptive dynamic processes learned through life experiences.
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Cultures have unique value orientations, which provide order and give direction to individuals, in these five areas
a. good/evil, past/present, being/doing, linear/collateral, domination/subjugation. b. human relations, time, place, work, relation to universe. c. personal, family, social, occupational, spiritual. d. time, human nature, activity, relational, people-to-nature.
An 82-year-old woman in rehabilitation following an ischemic stroke insists on completing her daily tasks without assistance. The nursing staff is concerned that she is an injury risk. This behavior is typical of which condition?
A) Left hemisphere stroke B) Cardiogenic emboli stroke C) Right hemisphere stroke D) Large artery thrombosis
The nurse is assessing a client who has a chest tube. Which assessment finding requires intervention by the nurse?
a. Pain at the insertion site b. Bloody drainage in the collection chamber c. Intermittent bubbling in the water seal chamber d. Tidaling in the water seal chamber
A 46-year-old male client with chronic renal problems is in the hospital for a nephrostomy. The nurse understands that this is the surgical insertion of a tube that will drain urine from the cli-ent's:
1. Bladder 2. Urethra 3. Ureters 4. Renal pelvis