Answer to Question 1
B
The key element of culture is that it is learned. Culture encompasses many elements, including language, practices, habits, beliefs, rituals, and customs, all of which are socially inherited.
Cultures are historically defined by time period. For instance, the ancient Mayan people are considered a culture that existed in a specified period of time. But this definition is not relevant to a nurse practicing today.
Culture can include members who have different racial backgrounds.
There is a transgenerational element to culture, but diverse groups would not share their beliefs. Each group would have its own unique beliefs.
Answer to Question 2
C
Mirroring the patient allows the patient to direct the interaction. Follow the patient's leads.
Nurses are often uncomfortable with silence, but it is an important therapeutic communication technique and should be used. Practice will make the nurse more comfortable with it.
Metaphors can be useful devices but are also often overdone.
Personal stories can be a valuable means of opening up conversations, but the nurse must not overuse them and should not share information that has not been resolved.
A, A nurse is adding a medication to an IV line as a piggyback
Culture and sensitivity testing.
Responsibilities of the nurse manager
Historian James Merrell notes several errors in Benjamin West’s famous 1771 painting, William Penn’s
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