___________________________________________________________________ Implicit Bias in Health Care
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IMPLICIT BIAS IN HEALTH CARE
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21. Dr. X, a physician, acknowledges that she still has a lot to learn about different racial and ethnic minority groups. She is willing to learn from her patients and assume the role of learner. Dr. X is demonstrating
25. Which of the following statements regarding health disparities is FALSE? A) Health disparities are linked to disadvantaged groups. B) Health disparities refer to differences in health status and disease that are tied to structural inequities. C) There are no differences in life expectancies among African Americans and White Americans. D) The Institute of Medicine has implicated implicit bias in the development and continuance of health disparities. 26. An implicit bias training is offered at a hospital, and a total of 50 health professionals attend. During the breakout session, training participants are assigned to discussion groups. One nurse agrees that implicit bias is prevalent, but she is quite sure she does not hold any implicit biases. Which developmental stage might this nurse be in? A) Defense B) Minimization C) Structural competence D) Counter-stereotype acceptance 27. If psychological safety is threatened, what might be a potential outcome in implicit bias training? A) Recriminations B) Self-confessions of guilt C) Health disparities increase D) Learning may be compromised 28. As part of an implicit bias training, participants watch a film about an African American man’s experiences navigating the health system and are asked to enter the protagonist’s lived reality. What type of intervention is this? A) Priming B) Attunement
A) diversity. B) reflexivity. C) explicit bias. D) cultural humility.
22. What tool is used to quantitatively measure implicit bias? A) IAT
B) SOAP C) STOP D) fMRI
23. Which of the following is NOT a risk factor in triggering implicit biases for health professionals? A) Uncertainty B) Cognitive dissonance C) Time pressure to make a rapid decision D) Heavy workload and feeling behind schedule 24. How might critical theory or a structural perspective be integrated into the values and ethics of interprofessional collaboration and practice? A) Advocate for more neurologic imaging studies to examine how implicit bias affects the brain. B) Analyze how patients’ health and well-being
may reflect structural vulnerabilities driven in large part by social, cultural, economic, and institutional forces. C) The ethical responsibility is to advocate for policies that perpetuate and reinforce implicit biases. D) The role of health professionals is to focus less on the unconscious and instead emphasize explicit bias as the behaviors.
C) Control strategies D) Perspective taking
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