final

Question 1

Know how to identify high and low self-efficacy

Answer 1

• Self-efficacy is the degree to which a person believes that he or she can attain a goal

Question 2

What is a crisis?

Answer 2

• An occurrence that exceeds a persons normal coping ability (how might you provide the help)

Question 3

Be familiar with the various ways of providing social support

Answer 3

• Action-facilitating support: performing tasks and collecting information (instrumental: tasks and favors/ informational: finding info for the person)
• Nurturing support: building self-esteem, acknowledging and expressing emotions and providing companionship

Question 4

What does it mean to engage in supportive listening?

Answer 4

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• Focus on the person, remain neutral concentrate on feelings, legitimize the persons emotions, summarize what you hear.

Question 5

Is it possible to receive too much social support?

Answer 5

-yes
• Overhelping: providing to much instrumental assistance
• Overinforming: forcing info on people when they are to distraught to accept it
• Overempathizing: emotional contagion involves actually feeling emotions similar to the other persons. This can exhaust people.

Question 6

Name three types of nurturing support and give an example of each

Answer 6

• Esteem support: make another support and give an example of each
• Emotional support: efforts to acknowledge and understand what another person is feeling
• Social network support: involves ongoing relationships maintained even when no crisis exists.

Question 7

What is the National Medical Association?

Answer 7

• African Americans were barred from practicing medicine in most us hospitals so they formed their own organization

Question 8

When the Women’s Equity League filed a lawsuit against U.S. medical schools in 1970, about what percent of medical school students were women?

Answer 8

• 9%

Question 9

Know what a fiduciary is

Answer 9

• Patients depend on you being trustworthy and ethical

Question 10

Be familiar with the different models of organizational diversity

Answer 10

what is expected, how members define their roles, and what actions and attitudes they value.

Question 11

How do nursing shortages relate to patients’ health?

Answer 11

• Patients are more likely to have UTI’s, pneumonia, and gastrointestinal bleeding

Question 12

Know the advantages of participative decision-making

Answer 12

• People are involved in the decision making that affects the organization typically good for morale and effective at yielding high- quality decisions

Question 13

What is authority rule?

Answer 13

• Management has the main say. Use participative decision making that way there is a variety.
• Those who are most educated have the most up to date knowledge and have earned the most impressive titles and credentials.

Question 14

Based on the advice of management theorist Peter Drucker, which of the following is best suited for a career in health care today?

Answer 14

• Have to be responsive
• Pg. 268 someone who can work in a variety of areas and has a lot of energy. Baseball a team but job is to cover your area. Doubles tennis you move around the court and have to work in different areas.

Question 15

Why should you celebrate successes as a leader in a health organization?

Answer 15

• Celebrating success is an important thing allows them to feel values

Question 16

Jordan J. Cohen and colleagues argued that there are at least four main reasons for working toward greater diversity in the healthcare workforce. Please list and briefly explain all four reasons.

Answer 16

• Culturally competent workforce: multi cultural work force can bring more comfort to patients
• Access for the underserved: different cultures as well as females are more likely to serve in lower income areas
• Broadened research agenda: people choose interest based on personal experiences
• Diversity in related workforces: would increase representation in medical fields as a whole.

Question 17

What are some reasons for the nursing shortages?

Answer 17

• Women’s movement expanded opportunities in other professions
• Insufficient funding for colleges and universities (no faculty, classrooms, money to train, clinical hosts)
• Men not entering nursing profession as expected
• Population shifts: nursing enrollment dropped as elderly population increased

Question 18

Know the main argument of social comparison theory

Answer 18

• People judge themselves largely in comparison to others.

Question 19

What is product placement?

Answer 19

• Sponsors pay to have a product or brand name included in a movie, tv program, video game or some other entertainment form

Question 20

What does it mean to “pathologize the human body?”

Answer 20

• Making natural functions seem weird and unnatural. Advertisers make consumers feel bad about them so they will pay to change themselves.

Question 21

Why is medical science difficult to cover effectively in the media?

Answer 21

• Covering complex studies have to reach out to audience and may have a hard time reflecting what the study is actually saying.

Question 22

What are the benefits and dangers of direct-to-consumer drug advertising?

Answer 22

• Pg. 258 benefit: know about ways to get help

* Danger: can hurt healthcare providers image

Question 23

What do media critics say about messages that depict obesity as a beauty issue?

Answer 23

• There are health complications that are linked to obesity. There are real health problems besides it being a vanity issue

Question 24

Which issue has been called the greatest public health challenge in the last half century?

Answer 24

• AIDS

Question 25

Be familiar with potential issues with designing a health campaign for a culture different than your own

Answer 25

• Go to individuals first so you can try to understand their health issues
• Critical cultural approach: different structures to health issues. Have to look into the behaviors and understand the issues of those who are effected by it.

Question 26

The first step in defining a health campaign is to…

Answer 26

• Defining the situation and potential benefits

Question 27

Know what the knowledge gap hypothesis is

Answer 27

• People with plentiful information resources are likely to know more and to continue learining more than people with fewer information resources.