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A young African American man is admitted to the hospital in sickle cell crisis. He is unmarried and lives with an extended family headed by his grandmother. The nurse takes into consideration that this type of family arrangement is:

A hospice patient is unable to tolerate food or fluids and has advance directives that indicate that he does not want IV fluids or tube feedings if he is unable to take oral feedings. His family is concerned that he will be very uncomfortable without food or fluids. The nurse should tell them that:

A Roman Catholic patient going to surgery for an emergency cesarean delivery is afraid the baby may not survive, and because she is Roman Catholic, she asks you to be sure that the baby is baptized when it is born. Your response to her should be:

Karen is a recent graduate. She is planning to go to India with her church group as a nurse on a medical mission trip. She will be working in a church funded clinic. Which of the following shows willingness for the development of cultural competence?

A nursing instructor is educating a group of nursing students about cultural values practiced by Arab Americans. The nursing instructor would recognize the need for further patient education if a nursing student states, “I will:

Laura is a nurse who is not answering the requests of a patient based on the fact that she is scheduled for an abortion. This is an example of:

The nurse must be alert to nonverbal expressions to assess pain in patients from a(n):

The home health nurse assesses the older patients in her case load for signs of abuse. The nurse is aware that the primary incidence of abuse is ______________.

The nurse is aware that cultural influences shape the worldview of all people, which define for each person the concepts of the: (Select all that apply.)

A nurse’s neighbor confides that she has been treating a health problem through a faith healer in her religion but is worried because the condition seems to be worsening. She asks the nurse what she should do. The nurse’s best response would be: