Cultural Competence

1. Cultural competence includes care that is sensitive to issues related to ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, social class, economic status - to mention a few.

True

False

2. Capital Hospice provides interpreters for patients who do not speak your language.

True

False

3. Culture simply had to do with a person's race or ethnicity.

True

False

4. Do not use young children to interpret for their parents.

True

False

5. When providing care to a person of a difference culture than one's own, it is important to assume that what you have learned about that culture and illness will be the way this person will behave.

True

False

6. A definition of culture is:

A system of shared symbols

A system of shared beliefs.

A system of shared food.

A and C

A and B