Study Guide for Culture and Diversity
Potter and Perry Chapter 9
1. A nurse is planning care for an immigrant with low income. What information should
the nurse consider when planning care for this patient? (Think in terms of morbidity,
disease, health, etc.)
2. What actions would a culturally competent nurse take who’s providing care to a
patient who’s from a different culture?
3. What step should a nurse take first who’s in the process of developing cultural
competence?
4. Be familiar with the LEARN mnemonic. (Page 117)
5. What do you do as a nurse when you are working with an interpreter? (Page 117)
6. Know what the teach back method is. (Page 116)
7. The nurse is using core measures to reduce health disparities. What groups of people
would the nurse want to see have the most improvement in core measures?
8. Whom would the nurse work with (team member) for a patient with limited English
skills?
9. You are providing health information to a patient. Think about the patient’s literacy
level. Who’s at risk for not being able to read and write?
10. How do you know that you have provided culturally congruent care to a patient?
Giddens text: Concept 04
1. Know the difference between collective and independent cultures.
2. What’s the one major reason for nurses to become culturally competent.
3. What are the four interrelated constructs to developing cultural competence? (Pages
32-33).