Author Question: A new mother on the OB unit refuses to allow her newborn to wear disposable diapers. She insists on ... (Read 50 times)

Sportsfan2111 · **on:** Jul 17, 2018

A new mother on the OB unit refuses to allow her newborn to wear disposable diapers. She insists on applying cloth diapers without safety pins, because this is how her culture applies diapers.

During break, the nurse discusses the patient's strange diapering technique compared with the excellent American method of diapering. Besides violating confidentiality, the nurse is displaying

a. ethnocentrism.
b. stereotyping.
c. unusual behavior during break.
d. lack of adherence to hospital policy on diapering.

Question 2

The nurse who states, I believe in the uniqueness and value of human beings is basing care on the philosophy of

a. civil liberties.
b. individual worth.
c. American heritage.
d. the American Health Care System Code.

carlsona147 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 17, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: A
Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's way of doing things is better than the ways of people of different cultures. Stereotyping is making false assumptions about others based on inaccurate generalizations. Discussing the patient's diapering technique during break is unethical. It is unlikely that there is a policy on diapering.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
Belief in the uniqueness and value of each human being, regardless of differences that may be observed or perceived in that individual, is called the philosophy of individual worth. The other options do not identify this belief.