Sociology for Nurses

1. How will the demographic makeup of the UK change in the next twenty years?

2. Though scientifically the idea of race has been discredited, why do sociologists still retain the concept ‘race’?

3. What is meant by ‘situational ethnicity’?

4. What is institutional racism?

5. What problems may there be in trying to compare mortality data for different ethnic groups?

6. Identify three important techniques for communicating with a patient with limited understanding of English in the absence of a translator.

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