Answer to Question 1
Ans: C
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The teenager is experiencing cultural change. This often occurs when a person changes upon coming into contact with new beliefs and ideas. Culture shock is a stress response that involves being unable to comprehend the culture that one is immersed in. Viewing one's own culture as the only correct standard by which to view people of other cultures is ethnocentrism. Cultural relativity refers to an understanding that cultures relate differently to the same given situations.
Answer to Question 2
Ans: B
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While the physician will convey expectations of the nurse's role, the nurse presently working will be the key informant for the newly employed nurse. The key informant is the person who has an especially rich base of cultural knowledge, is reflective, willing to share their views, and is able to articulate her culture; in this case the responsibilities of a nurse in this setting. The office manager and unlicensed assistive personnel, while employed in this office longer, will have different roles in this office culture than will the nurse.
The nurse conducts the health history as the first step in the nursing assessment
The nurse cares for the postop client in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU).
To examine a child’s ear, the pinna should be pulled back and up for children over 3 years; the pinn
Acute Respiratory Distress
A child with rickets
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