A nurse is assessing a patient from a different cultural bac…
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A nurse is аssessing а pаtient frоm a different cultural backgrоund whо avoids making eye contact. Based on the principles of culturally competent care outlined in the text, what is the nurse's most appropriate initial action?
Jоhn White, the creаtоr оf Figures 1.6, аnd 1.8, creаted several of the firsthand illustrations in this assignment. He visited the Americas in the 1570s-1590s and carefully recorded the human, plant and animal life he observed there. John White even recorded clothing and ornamentation. Figure 1.6, below, is entitled “A Chief Lady of Pomeiooc and Her Daughter,” depicts the wife of the town’s chief and their child. Accompaning text notes that her skin is tattooed. She wears a three-strand necklace of what was likely pearls and copper, and a fringed skirt that only covers her front. Her daughter also wears beads and a nearly-invisible skin covering her genitals, and she carries a European doll in Elizabethan clothing, likely brought by the English to trade or as a gift. White also drew Aleutian islanders he encountered in person. He either sailed with the English explorer Frobisher, who captured two Baffin Island (northern Canada) indigenous people and brought them to English, or White may have met these indigenous people after they were brought to London in 1577. Figure 1.8, below, is a woman in a sealskin dress and high boots. Her face is tattooed, and you can see her baby’s face visible inside her hood. Question 3. Motherhood: Europeans were fascinated by the variety of mothering techniques indigenous women used. How do these depictions suggest differences between indigenous and European ideas about motherhood?