Answer to Question 1
Answer: 2
Explanation: It is important for the nurse to understand that the individual who adopts a particular religious belief may not believe or practice every tenet of his or her religion and may, in fact, have his or her own individual answers to questions about life. Therefore, spirituality is defined by the patient, not by the patient's religion, religious structure, or transcendent figure.
Answer to Question 2
Answer: 3
Explanation: Some common health problems are attributed to different cultural beliefs. Among some members of the African American culture, sudden and unexplained death may be seen as being caused by voodoo or supernatural forces. To provide culturally competent care to the patient, the nurse should attempt to clarify the patient's beliefs or feelings. The nurse will not tell the patient that supernatural forces are either fictional or the cause of the spouse's death; both of these responses do not allow the patient to describe to the nurse the reasons why the patient feels that supernatural forces are to blame. The nurse should also not ask the patient why she refuses to believe that her spouse died due of heart disease; this response does not validate the patient's spiritual beliefs.
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Patient receiving ultrasound treatment to the left elbow.
Position of patient to assess jugular vein distention
Assisting a falling patient.
A partnership between the patient and the health care provider.
Amyloid plaques (stained blue) in the brain of a deceased patient who had Alzheimer’s disease.