Author Question: The nurse should anticipate that an individual's culture will have the most significant influence on ... (Read 32 times)

jparksx · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

The nurse should anticipate that an individual's culture will have the most significant influence on which of the following situations?

A) Mr. Tan's physician has prescribed a new antipsychotic medication.
B) Mrs. Al-Aziz has begun grieving because her husband of several decades has just died.
C) Mrs. Ramos will soon begin electroconvulsive therapy for the treatment of her depression.
D) Stephen, a client with schizophrenia, has begun a new class on life skills.

Question 2

A nurse is aware that members of a particular ethnic group discard the antibody-rich colostrum that a woman produces in the hours and days following the delivery of a baby.

Which of the nurse's following actions would demonstrate Leininger's culturally congruent nursing care mode of cultural care repatterning/restructuring?

A) Providing commercial infant formula until the woman wishes to begin breastfeeding
B) Teaching women from this group about the nutritional and immunological benefits of colostrum
C) Ensuring that the other nurses are aware of these women's practices around breastfeeding
D) Advocating for the utilization of this practice among women of other cultures

triiciiaa · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans: B
Culture has a profound impact on nearly every aspect of the human experience, but this is especially true in the expression of belief. Ethnopharmacology demonstrates that there are differences in medication responses, but this effect is less influential than the effect of culture on grieving.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: B
In cultural care repatterning/restructuring, the nurse educates the client to change practices that are not conducive to health. Accommodating the practice or advocating its spread does not exemplify repatterning/restructuring.