SAS 11 - Theoretical Foundations of Transcultural Nursing Part 1

c. Biological variations
1. Which of the following is not included in the study of humans? d. Practices
a. Origins
b. Behavior 9. Who is the nurse anthropologist who conceived the study of
c. Occupations or professions transcultural nursing?
a. Madeleine M. Leininger
2. Culture universal refers to b. Florence Nightingale
a. particular values, beliefs, and patterns of behavior that tend to be c. Faye Abdellah
special or unique to a group and that do not tend to be shared with d. Sister Callista Roy
members of other cultures
b. the commonly shared values, norms of behavior, and life 10. The standards for transcultural nursing were developed to
patterns that are similarly held among cultures about human EXCEPT
behavior and lifestyles a. Foster excellence in transcultural nursing practice
c. develop a scientific and humanistic body of knowledge in order to b. Provide criteria for the evaluation of transcultural nursing
provide nursing care that is both c. Fostering stereotyping
d. a nursing specialty focused on the comparative study and analysis d. Create a tool for teaching and learning
of cultures and subcultures

3. Transcultural Nursing requires the following EXCEPT SAS 12 - Theoretical Foundations of Transcultural Nursing Part 2
a. Remove all biases in the self and from other cultures
b. Sophisticated assessment and analytic skills 1. When a nurse from the Philippines leaves her home country in
c. Ability to plan design implement evaluate nursing care for order to work in the United States of America, this is an example of
individuals, families, groups, and communities representing various which of the following?
cultures a. Immigrate
d. That nurses be able to apply that knowledge to the cultures of b. Emigrate
organizations institutions health and c. Work migration
nursing agencies d. Naturalization

4. This theory is based on the concept of cultural care that guides
nursing judgments and activities to provide culturally congruent care
a. Core, care, cure model
b. Theory of culture care diversity and universality
c. Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model
d. Sunrise Model
5. The three modes of nursing decisions and actions are the
following EXCEPT
a. Culture care preservation and/or maintenance
b. Culture care accommodation and/or negotiation
c. Culture care establishment and/or adaptation
d. Culture care re-patterning and/or restructuring
6. The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence identifies which of the
following in culture
a. Beliefs
b. Values
c. Practices
d. All of the above
7. How many concepts are included in the Campinha-Bacote Model
of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Health Care Services?
a. Five
b. Four
c. Seven
d. Nine
8. In Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model identifies
six cultural phenomena which are communication, time, space,
social organization, environmental control, and
a. Values
b. Belief
2. Jose Dela Cruz who comes from Mexico currently enters the
United States of America in order to legally settle and work there. He
is considered to be an
a. Immigrant
b. Emigrant
c. Alien
d. Illegal alien
3. A patient who is currently a student in the Middle East is seeking
medical care in the Philippines but would want to maintain that the
food served would be Halal. This is a demonstration of which of the
following?
a. Individual cultural competence
b. Organizational cultural competence
c. Cultural baggage
d. Cultural bias
4. Which of the following is NOT true regarding cultural self-
assessment?
a. The purpose of the cultural self-assessment is for nurses to
critically reflect on their own culturally based attitudes, values,
beliefs, and practices etc.
b. The nurse’s cultural self-assessment is a personal and professional
journey that emphasizes strengths as well as areas for continued
growth, thereby enabling nurses to set goals for overcoming barriers
to the delivery of culturally congruent and competent nursing care.
c. Part of the cultural self-assessment process includes nurses’
awareness of their human tendencies toward bias, ethnocentrism,
cultural imposition, cultural stereotyping, prejudice, and
discrimination.
d. The nurse is allowed to do unreasoned judgment about a person
place or object.
5. A person who is Chinese wants acupuncture to be done on him c. Determine the nursing and health care needs of people from
instead of the medications that are currently prescribed for him diverse cultures and intervene in ways that are culturally acceptable,
since he believes that acupuncture can provide him with more relief congruent, competent, safe, affordable, accessible, high quality, and
than drugs. This behavior is an example of based on current research, evidence, and best practices.
a. Bias d. How to approach to the client, consideration of verbal and
b. Ethnocentricism nonverbal communication, and the sequence and order in which
c. Racism data are gathered.
d. Cultural imposition
2. A study where the environment causes changes or mutations in
6. The nurse is bringing a newly admitted black patient to a shared the genetic make-up of a person is known as
hospital room. A male Caucasian who currently occupies have of the a. Genetics
room tells the nurse, “No. Please don’t room him in with me. I’d b. Epigenetics
rather prefer non-colored people to be with me in this room.” The c. Pharmacogenetics
Caucasian patient is demonstrating d. Gene-sequencing
a. Cultural bias
b. Racism 3. A doctor is studying whether a patient has inherited the same
c. Cultural imposition drug allergies that his father has would be under which of the
d. Ethnocentricism following studies?
a. Pharmacogenomics
7. A female patient in the psych ward tells the nurse that she doesn’t b. Pharmacokinetics
want to join the group activity since one of the patients identifies c. Pharmacodynamics
herself as a lesbian. She is clearly displaying which of the following d. Pharmacognosy
behaviors
a. Cultural stereotype 4. When a physician is screening for the presence of the breast
b. Racism cancer gene in a female patient since her mother is currently
c. Prejudice suffering from breast cancer, this is known as
d. Cultural imposition a. Drug efficacy or sensitivity
b. Carrier screening
8. “Look at those Indian nurses, they all probably smell of curry,” c. Prenatal diagnosis
says one of the Nurses at the ward. Her statement is an example of d. Genetic sequencing
a. Cultural stereotype
b. Cultural imposition 5. A nurse has observed that the family of her patient who is
c. Prejudice Japanese always bow to her whenever she informs them about the
d. Cultural bias condition of her patient. This behavior is Japanese is under their
a. Cultural heritage
9. The hospital workplace has healthcare workers from various b. Cultural sensitivity
nationalities and races. We can say that the hospital has c. Cultural norms
a. Cross-culture d. Cultural biases
b. Diversity
c. People of color 6. Which of the following races have longer arms and legs but have
d. Emic shorter trunks?
a. Africans
10. The ability of a healthworker to see the situation from the b. Caucasians
client’s point of view is known as c. Asians
a. Emic d. Native Americans
b. Etic
c. Bias 7. Which of the following races would the nurse expect to be having
d. Cross cultural communication the shortest height and lightest weight?
a. Africans
b. Caucasians
SAS 13 - Cultural Competence in the Health History and Physical c. Native Americans
Examination d. Asians

1. Cultural assessment consists of both process and content. Process 8. Mongolian spots are a normal variation in children of the following
refers to races EXCEPT
a. A systematic, comprehensive examination of individuals, families, a. African
groups, and communities regarding their health-related cultural b. Asian
beliefs, values, and practices. c. Caucasian
b. The foundation for the clients’ plan of care, providing valuable d. Latin descent
data for setting mutual goals, planning care, intervening, and
evaluating the care. 8. In assessing cyanosis in dark-skinned persons, the best area to
determine this would be at the
a. Dorsal surface of the forearm 7. The practice of acupuncture on the other hand would be under
b. Abdomen a. Complementary health system
c. Cheek b. Integrative health system
d. Conjunctiva c. Alternative health system
d. Any of the above
10. Patients with blue eyes naturally have which of the following
descents? 8. Ayurveda, a natural system of medicine, originated in
a. Asian a. China
b. Africans b. India
c. Europeans c. Philippines
d. Native Americans d. Middle East

9. Reiki, a healing technique based on the principle that the therapist

SAS 14 - The Influence of Cultural and Health Belief Systems on can channel energy into the patient by means of touch, to activate
Health Care Practices the natural healing processes of the patient's body and restore
physical and emotional well-being is under which of the following?
1. In the magico-religious paradigm regarding health, the world is an a. Biofield therapies
arena dominated by b. Alternative medicine
a. Health workers c. Bioelectromagnetic-based therapies
b. Traditional healers d. Manipulative and body-based methods
c. Supernatural forces
d. Alternative medicine 10. Massage therapy and chiropractic manipulation would be under
a. Bioelectromagnetic-based therapies
2. Which of the following cultures is not grounded in the magico- b. Natural products
religious paradigm regarding health? c. Manipulative and body-based methods
a. Latino d. Biofield therapies
b. African-Americans
c. Caucasians
d. Middle Eastern culture SAS 15 - Transcultural Perspectives in Childbearing
1. Which of the following religions are not in favor of artificial
3. Latinos view that disease is caused by a demonic possession or a methods of contraception?
disease-causing spirit. This is with regard to their belief in which of a. Islam
the following b. Buddhism
a. Voodoo c. Roman Catholic
b. Malojo d. Hindu
c. Encanto
d. Djinn 2. The Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter-Day Saints are against
methods of contraception because
4. Which of the following theories is found on the Greek concept of a. the Bible does not permit both natural and artificial methods of
the four body humors? contraception.
a. Yin and Yang b. the church encourages married couples about their spiritual
b. Chi responsibility to have large families and promote church growth.
c. Hot/Cold c. contraceptives are against the teachings of Jesus Christ.
d. Ecrasia d. according to their beliefs, contraceptives promote premarital sex.

5. The concept of Yin and Yang, in which the forces of nature should 3. Which of the following is NOT true regarding the religious practice
be balanced in order to produce harmony came from which of the of the Hindu religion?
following a. Hinduism teaches its people to practice cleanliness of the right
a. Japan hand and the dirtiness of the left hand.
b. China b. The right hand is for holding religious books and eating utensils.
c. Korea c. The left hand is used for dirty things, such as holding the genitals.
d. Mongolia d. This makes the belief easier for married couples to use
contraceptives.
6. When a patient consults a “mangtatawas” in the Philippines due
to a belief that a spirit may be causing his or her illness. This set of 4. The traditional indigenous birth attendants in the Philippines are
beliefs would be under known as
a. Folk healing system a. Hilots
b. Complementary health system b. Dayahs
c. Integrative health system c. Ayuhs
d. Alternative health system d. Albularyo
5. Which of the following religions do not permit the divulgence of d. Infection that might spread to others.
the baby’s name prior to the infant’s naming ceremony?
a. Roman Catholics 3. The act of premastication of mothers for their infants is common
b. Islam in which of the following ethnic groups? (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY)
c. Orthodox Jewish a. Dutch
d. Shintoism b. African Americans
c. Asians
6. Which of the following is NOT true regarding pica? d. Arabs
a. In the United States, pica is common in African American women. e. Hispanic
b. Pica is commonly occurring in Caucasian women from a higher
socioeconomic level. 4. White middle class North American and European families believe
c. Pica is common in women who are raised in the rural South of the that infants
US. a. should sleep alone.
d. Pica is also occurring in countries such as Kenya, Uganda, and b. sleep with their parents
Saudi Arabia. c. should sleep in the room of their parents in a separate crib.
d. sleep with the mother only.
7. Traditional Mexican practices toward pregnancy includes the
following EXCEPT
a. A low-fat, high-protein, natural diet (eat right- come bien) 5. Which of the following is NOT true regarding toilet training of
b. Exercise for well-being (walk-camina) toddlers?
c. Avoidance of worry or stress, which could have a negative effect a. Most children are capable of achieving dryness by 21⁄2 to 3 years of
on the pregnancy outcome (don’t worry – no se preocupe) age.
d. Avoidance of baby showers since it can cause bad luck (mal ojo) b. Bowel training is more easily accomplished than bladder training.
8. Which of the following cultures believe that birth is painful and it c. Daytime (diurnal) dryness is more easily attained than nighttime
is something that must be endured? (nocturnal) dryness.
a. Asian d. Bladder training is taught first before bowel training.
b. European
c. Hispanics 6. Which of the following is true regarding Mexican practices of
d. Native Americans women towards menstruation?
a. Not eating seafood during menstruation.
9. Postpartum depression in the Middle East is thought to be caused b. Avoidance of any sweet foods during menstruation.
by c. Women are not permitted to walk barefooted, wash their hair, or
a. Bad luck take showers or baths during menses.
b. Jinn possession d. Avoid drinking cold water during menses.
c. Unhealthy practices during pregnancy
d. Having a female as a firstborn 7. In Islam, a woman who is menstruating is not allowed to do the
following EXCEPT
10. Which of the following is NOT true regarding the Hot/Cold a. Entering a mosque
Theory of pregnancy? b. Praying
a. Pregnancy is considered a “hot” state. c. Participating in the feast of Ramadan
b. Avoidance of cold, in the form of air, water or food during d. Going out of the house.
pregnancy.
c. A great deal of the heat of pregnancy is thought to be retained 8. Which of the following ethnic groups do not allow children to
during the birth process. make decisions on their own?
d. The woman should avoid “hot” activities such as excessive a. African American
exercise, strenuous household chores, quarreling, or crying. b. Asians
c. Canadian
d. Australian
SAS 16 - Transcultural Perspectives in the Nursing Care of Children
9. Which of the following best describes susto in the Hispanic
1. Early autonomy in the child is expected to be seen in which of the culture?
following ethnic groups? (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY) a. It is an illness manifested by grunting sounds and protrusion of the
a. German umbilicus.
b. Japanese b. It means, fallen fontanel.
c. Anglo-American c. It is a digestive condition believed by Mexicans to be caused by the
d. Filipino adherence of undigested food to some part of the gastrointestinal
tract.
2. A male child who is of an Asian descent is not allowed to cry in the d. It is caused by a frightening experience and is recognized by
presence of others due to nervousness, loss of appetite, and loss of sleep.
a. bad luck.
b. the belief that it is not gender-appropriate. 10. African children are more prone to develop inherited blood
c. evil spirits might harm the child. disorders such as the following EXCEPT
a. Thalassemia a. Southeast Asians
b. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency b. Chinese
c. Hemophilia c. Arabs
d. Sickle cell anemia d. Hispanics

9. The leading cause of death in the United States are the following
SAS 17 - Transcultural Perspectives in the Nursing Care of Adults EXCEPT
a. Cardiac disease
1. This group of adults are considered as sandwich generation since b. Cancer
they are still concerned with their older children and also concerned c. Cerebrovascular disease
with the care of their aging parents d. Kidney disease
a. Young adults
b. Middle adults 10. Caregiving of other family members usually the elderly, takes
c. Late adults place during
d. Old adults a. Early adulthood
2. Which of the following is true regarding the description of a young b. Middle adulthood
adult? c. Late adulthood
a. They most often concentrate on career and family matters. d. Adolescent
b. They struggle with independence and issues related to intimacy
and relationships outside the family.
c. They sometimes experience “recareering” SAS 18 - Transcultural Perspectives in the Nursing Care of Older
d. They have a established career and family. Adults

3. According to Erik Erikson the conflict that arises from middle 1. Which of the following theories in late adulthood would focus on
adulthood is recreational activities that the elderly can do?
a. Trust vs. mistrust a. Disengagement theory
b. Intimacy vs. isolation b. Activity theory
c. Generativity vs. stagnation c. Continuity theory
d. Integrity vs. despair d. Erickson’s Developmental theory

4. Generativity is accomplished through which of the following 2. This theory of late adulthood would advise the elderly to apply the
EXCEPT activities that they have been doing in their younger
a. Parenting years in their age of retirement
b. Working in one’s career a. Disengagement theory
c. Participating in community activities b. Activity theory
d. Finding a lifetime partner c. Continuity theory
d. Erickson’s Developmental theory
5. Which of the following is NOT true regarding the characteristics of
immigrant and refugee families? 3. According to Erik Erickson, is that elderly adults might experience
a. Families tend to be extended which of the following if they feel that their life is too
b. Most immigrants and refugees are poor and struggle to earn an short to achieve their unfulfilled dreams
adequate income. a. Isolation
c. Many immigrants have no relatives in the United States. b. Stagnation
d. Refugees may be fleeing war and political persecution. c. Role confusion
d. Despair
6. Which geographic region permit the expression of male
friendship through words and embraces? Select all that apply 4. Social support has been delineated in several ways which include
a. Southern Europe the following EXCEPT
b. North America a. Affective support, or expressions of respect, and love
c. Southeast Asia b. Affirmational support, or having endorsement for one’s behavior
d. Middle East and perceptions
e. South America c. Monetary support, and financial assistance
d. Tangible support, or receiving some kind of aid or physical
7. Which of the following cultures use both the surnames of both the assistance
mother’s and father’s side of the family?
a. Hispanics 5. Many older adults are deprived of the informal social supports due
b. Chinese to losses such as
c. Arabs a. Separation from immediate family members because of
d. Japanese geographic mobility
b. Loss of spouse or partner because of death or illness
8. Which of the following cultures use their father’s first name as c. Loss of leisure pursuits or entertainment due to illness, loss of
their middle name? income, or declining physical abilities
d. All of the above b. Overall quality is improving, access is getting worse, and
disparities are not changing.
6. It is especially important for many older adults to have social, c. Urgent attention is warranted to ensure continued improvements
emotional, and physical sources of support to assist to remain in quality of diabetes care, maternal and child health, cancer care,
a. Independent quality of care among states in the South
b. Dependent d. All of the above
c. Healthy
d. Disease-free 4. Which of the following healthcare disparities are seen in Asians as
compared to Whites?
7. Which of the following Asian ethnicities are more likely to be a. Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births
lonely or isolated during their late adult years? b. Adults age 50+ who ever received colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, or
a. Chinese proctoscopy
b. Japanese c. Adjusted incidence of end-stage renal disease due to diabetes
c. Filipino per million population
d. Korean d. Hospital patients with heart attack who received fibrinolytic
medication within 30 minutes of arrival
8. The following are developmental tasks that older adults achieve
EXCEPT 5. Which of the following healthcare disparity is not TRUE regarding
a. Satisfaction of basic needs Hispanics as compared to non-Hispanic Whites?
b. Desperation a. Home health care patients who have less shortness of breath
c. Dignity b. Advanced stage invasive breast cancer incidence per 100,000
d. Integrity and self-actualization women age 40+
c. Adults age 40+ with diagnosed diabetes who received 2 or more
9. The disengagement theory focuses on explaining that older adults hemoglobin A1c measurements in the calendar year
whose status is linked to employment perceive which of the d. Hispanic patient with heart attack who received fibrinolytic
following during retirement? medication within 30 minutes of arrival.
a. Less self-worth
b. Despair 6. In Bolman and Deal’s Organization Culture Perspective, which of
c. Boredom the following emphasizes power and problems are viewed as “turf”
d. Depression issues
a. Human resource frame
10. Which of the following is true regarding faith and spirituality b. Structural frame
during late adulthood? c. Political frame
a. Many older adults experience an increase in religion or d. Symbolic frame
spirituality
b. Religion and spirituality may be a source of emotional support 7. The structural frame of Bolman and Deal’s Organizational
c. Most older adults rarely go to church Perspective focuses on which of the following
d. Older adults respond differently to these spiritual development a. Facilitating the fit between person and organization
tasks as influenced by their culture, life experiences, and individual b. Power and politics
qualities c. Following an organization’s rules or protocols
d. Rituals, ceremony, and myths in determining appropriate

SAS 19 - Nursing in Multicultural Health Care Setting 8. Schein has described organizational culture in several levels which
include (Select all that apply)
1. This refers to the ability of health care providers and organizations a. Observable artifacts
to understand and respond effectively to the cultural and linguistic b. Values
needs of clients c. Rituals, ceremonies, and myths
a. Cultural humility d. Inclusive workplace
b. Cultural awareness e. Basic underlying assumptions
c. Cultural competence
d. Cultural diversity 9. The platinum rule in an inclusive workplace means
a. Treat others as you wish to be treated
2. The average overall US life expectancy is at b. Treat others as they wish to be treated
a. 76.6 years c. What you wish upon others, you wish upon yourself
b. 81.3 years d. Do not treat others in ways that you would not like to be treated
c. 78.2 years
d. 78.7 years 10. Which of the following is a major barrier to quality health care?
a. Language
3. Which of the following is true regarding the 2012 National b. Religious practice
Healthcare Disparities Report? c. Folk medicine beliefss
a. Health care quality and access are suboptimal, especially for d. Culture
minority and low-income groups.
SAS 20 - Transcultural Perspectives in Mental Health Nursing d. Intimate partner violence

1. This happens when a person from a different culture is 9. In the Latino culture, the female role has its roots with which of
precipitated by the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar the following biblical figures?
signs and symbols of social intercourse a. Eve
a. Acculturation b. Ruth
b. Migration c. Virgin Mary
c. Culture shock d. Mary Magdalene
d. Integration
10. Arab-Americans have been victims of racism, aggression,
2. This is an interpersonal fear disorder with anxiety and avoidance insulting speech, and discrimination due to which of the following
of interpersonal situations and fear of inadequacy and offensiveness events in the past
to others seen in the Japanese culture a. Persian Gulf War
a. Khyal cap b. Oil crisis
b. Susto c. 9/11 terrorist attacks
c. Shenjing shuairuo d. Oklahoma City bombing
Answer: Taijin Kyufusho

3. Maladi moun which is illness due to envy of other’s success, SAS 21 - Culture, Family, and Community
hatred are seen in which of the following cultures?
a. Indians 1. This can be used by the community nurse to collect, organize, and
b. Haitians analyze information about high-risk groups that are encountered in
c. Pakistanis the community practice
d. Shona of Zimbabwe a. Nursing process
b. Nursing diagnosis
4. Symptoms of “Ataque de nervios” seen in Latinos include which of c. Community diagnosis
the following? d. Social-ecological approach
a. Uncontrollable shouting, crying, trembling, and aggressive
behavior. 2. Which of the following cultural influences have a profound effect
b. Period of brooding with subsequent aggressive behavior followed on health?
by amnesia or exhaustion a. Values
c. Abrupt outburst of agitation, aggression, and confusion b. Norms
d. Somatic complaints of dizziness, fatigue, weakness, loss of c. Beliefs
appetite, guilt and sexual dysfunction. d. All of the above

5. For African-Americans, the common false notion about depression 3. Which of the following will the community health nurse NOT
is that it is a sign of assess under cultural influences of individuals and families?
a. Homosexuality a. Family roles, typical family households and structure, and
b. Weakness dynamics in the family, particularly communication patterns and
c. Illness decision making
d. Emasculation b. Patterns of daily living, including work, school, and leisure
activities
6. Which of the following substances has had an overwhelming c. Social media behavior such as on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
impact on the mental health of Native Americans? etc.
a. Nicotine d. Ethnic, cultural, or national identity of client and family, for
b. Methamphetamine example, identification with a particular group, including language
c. Alcohol
d. Cocaine 4. Which of the following best describes subcultures according to
Madeleine Leininger?
7. Asian Americans have a stigma related to mental health problems a. A cultural group within a larger culture, often having beliefs or
due to the avoidance of which of the following negativity they interests at variance with those of the larger culture.
usually attribute to mental illness? b. Distinctive patterns of living with sets of rules, special values and
a. Disrespect practices that are different from the dominant culture.
b. Shame c. A subculture is a group of people within a culture that
c. Dishonor differentiates itself from the parent culture to which it belongs, often
d. Dependence maintaining some of its founding principles.
d. Subcultures develop their own norms and values regarding
8. Which of the following is a prevalent mental health concern cultural, political, and sexual matters.
among the Mexican-American culture?
a. Schizophrenia 5. This is a special term that describes a person who is outside of his
b. Generalized anxiety disorder or her country of nationality or habitual residence and who has a
c. Mood disorders
well-founded fear of persecution if he or she returns to his or her d. Thailand
own country
a. Refugee 3. According to Buddhism, this is a state of greater inner freedom
b. Immigrant and spontaneity, it is the goal of all existence
c. Emigrant a. Nirvana
d. Expatriate b. Saga Dawa
c. Dharma
6. Which word should be avoided during a nursing discourse and in d. Sangha
professional literature in order to show respect for the
undocumented immigrant as a human being 4. Roman Catholics must practice which of the following every
a. Refugee Wednesdays and Fridays of the Lenten season? SATA.
b. Expatriate a. Only fish is allowed during those days
c. Illegal alien b. A person is permitted to eat one full meal
d. Foreigner c. Abstinence from meat is also required on those days
d. Avoidance of all forms of animal products
7. This implies that an immigrant or refugee incorporates certain e. Observe a vegetarian diet during those days
aspects of the new culture into his or her lifestyle, such as language
and food, while still maintaining his or her cultural traditions and 5. Which of the following religious representatives in the Roman
values Catholic sect is allowed to do anointing of the sick?
a. Integration a. Priest
b. Acculturation b. Deacon
c. Assimilation c. Lay minister
d. Adaptation d. All of the above

8. They are the largest cultural/ethnic group in the United States of 6. Which of the following means of contraception is considered
America acceptable under the Roman Catholic faith? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
a. Filipinos a. Condoms
b. Vietnamese b. Temperature method
c. Hispanics c. Ovulation method
d. Arabs d. Mucus inspection method
e. Birth control pills
9. Which of the following is NOT included in the community nursing
assessment of cultural groups? 7. Which of the following is not considered a sacrament of the
a. Gathering of relevant data Roman Catholic sect?
b. Interpreting the data a. Baptism
c. Problem analysis and prioritization b. Reconciliation
d. Summarizing the morbidities of the community c. Holy communion
d. Bar mitzvah
10. If a Filipino client does not adhere to the “usog” theory of illness,
the client here is displaying 8. Christian Scientists ordinarily do not use which of the following
a. Culture shock with regard to the care of an ill patient?
b. Intracultural variation a. Medicines
c. Acculturation b. Immunizations and vaccines
d. Assimilation c. Prosthesis
d. Obstetricians

SAS 22 - Religion, Culture, and Nursing Part 1 9. Which of the following common beverages are you going to avoid
giving to a patient who belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of
1. Which of the following forms of contraception would be Latter-Day Saints? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
applicable to a patient who belongs to the Baha’i religion? SELECT a. Orange juice
ALL THAT APPLY b. Milk
a. Condoms c. Coffee
b. Diaphragms d. Iced tea
c. Intrauterine device e. Cola
d. Bilateral tubal ligation
e. Cervical cap 10. What is the stance of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-Day Saints regarding contraceptives?
2. Buddhism is founded by Gautama Buddha in which of the a. Contraceptives are permissible
following countries in Asia? b. Any form of prevention of the birth of children is contrary to
a. China church teachings
b. India c. Only natural forms of contraception are allowed
c. Nepal
d. It is upon the discretion of the married couple to use 8. Brit milah, the covenant of circumcision, is performed on all
contraceptives Jewish male children on the
a. 7th day after birth
b. 13th day after birth
SAS 23 - Religion, Culture, and Nursing Part 2 c. 8th day after birth
d. 3rd day after birth
1. According to Hinduism, loss of a limb is considered to be caused
by 9. Which of the following is NOT applicable in the diet of Jewish
a. Negative karma patients? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
b. Sins of a previous life a. Beef and chicken
c. Reincarnation b. Shellfish
d. Evil spirits c. Pork
d. Red fruits and vegetables
2. Which of the following is a central belief in Hinduism? e. Predatory fowl
a. Reincarnation
b. Salvation after death 10. Which of the following diets is encouraged by the Seventh-Day
c. Achievement of Nirvana Adventist church?
d. Reaching Paradise after death a. Ovovegetarian diet
b. Lactovegetarian diet
3. A nurse has observed a Muslim patient to be praying at certain c. Vegetarian diet
times of the day, the nurse is going to expect this patient to pray d. Pescatarian diet
how many times during the day?
a. 3 times
b. 7 times
c. 5 times
d. 6 times

4. A nurse is attending to a Muslim patient and refuses to eat and

drink anything since the patient has told the nurse that he is
observing the month of Ramadan. The nurse must know that
Muslims fast
a. From sunset to sunrise
b. During the afternoon
c. Every Wednesdays and Fridays
d. From dawn to sunset

5. Which of the following is NOT applicable in the diet of a Muslim

patient? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
a. Pork
b. Seafoods
c. Meats that are considered Halal
d. Alcoholic beverages
e. Coffee

6. When doing physical assessment of a female Muslim patient the

following nursing practices are acceptable EXCEPT
a. Maintain privacy when performing physical assessment of certain
areas of the body
b. Make sure that the drapes are drawn to make the patient
comfortable
c. Have a male nurse do the physical examination
d. Use PPEs when examining the patient

7. Which of the following religious sectors would oppose blood

transfusion as a form of medical treatment in a disease such as
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever?
a. Roman Catholic
b. Islam
c. Judaism
d. Jehovah’s Witnesses