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audie · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

A nurse is working with a home health client whose spouse was not born in the United States.

During the home visit, the nurse realizes that the client has acquired the identity of her spouse's culture and has adopted some of the health practices of that culture. The nurse understands this process as which of the following?
1. Acculturation
2. Assimilation
3. Diversity
4. Heritage consistency

Question 2

A new graduate nurse is working in a busy emergency department of a hospital, situated in a culturally diverse area of the city. In striving to be culturally sensitive, the nurse will:

1. Try to learn about the attitudes toward health care and traditions of the different cultures in that area.
2. Understand and attend to the total context of the client's situation, using knowledge, attitudes, and skills.
3. Possess the underlying background knowledge that will provide these clients with the best possible health care.
4. Continuously strive to be culturally competent.

JYan · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: Acculturation occurs when people adapt to or borrow traits from another culture. Acculturation can also be defined as the changes of one's cultural patterns to those of the host society.
Rationale 2: Assimilation is the process by which an individual develops a new cultural identity. It encompasses various aspects such as behavior, marital, identification, and civic. The underlying assumption is that the person from a given cultural group loses his or her original cultural identity to acquire the new one.
Rationale 3: Diversity is the fact or state of being different.
Rationale 4: Heritage consistency relates to the observance of beliefs and practices of a person's traditional cultural system.

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: 1
Rationale 1: Cultural sensitivity implies that nurses possess some basic knowledge of and constructive attitudes toward the health traditions observed among the diverse cultural groups found in the setting in which they are practicing.
Rationale 2: To understand and attend to the total context of the client's situation, using knowledge, attitudes, and skills is a general nursing expectation and does not address cultural sensitivity directly.
Rationale 3: To possess the underlying background knowledge that will provide these clients with the best possible health care is a general nursing expectation and does not address cultural sensitivity directly.
Rationale 4: Cultural sensitivity implies that nurses possess some basic knowledge not competency of and constructive attitudes toward the health traditions observed among the diverse cultural groups found in the setting in which they are practicing.