A Buddhist patient enters the hospital for diagnostic testing just before lunch time. The nurse tells the aide to give a meal tray to the new patient, because no tests will be done until later that evening.
The aide gives the patient a meal of Salisbury steak, bread, green beans, and potatoes with brown gravy. The patient eats nothing but a slice of bread and the green beans. Which of the following considerations was omitted by the nurse?
a. The patient should not be served any food until a physician's order is obtained.
b. The patient's Buddhist faith probably requires a vegetarian diet.
c. The patient may be too frightened about the tests to want to eat very much.
d. The patient may have diabetes or be allergic to some foods.
Question 2
A nurse says, I'm not going to change the way I practice nursing based on where the client is from, because research shows that Western health care technology and research is best. Which of the following is being demonstrated by the nurse's statement?
a. Ethnocentrism
b. Prejudice
c. Racism
d. Stereotyping
The nurse is using Standard Precautions to draw blood.
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