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Evvie72

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A nurse is working in a clinic where clients from several cultures are seen. As a first step toward the goal of personal cultural competence, the nurse will do which of the following?
 
  1. Enhance cultural skills.
  2. Gain cultural awareness.
  3. Seek cultural encounters.
  4. Acquire cultural knowledge.

Question 2

The partner of a patient at 16 weeks' gestation accompanies her to the clinic. The partner tells you that the baby just doesn't seem real to him, and he is having a hard time relating to his partner's fatigue and food aversions.
 
  Which statement would be best for the nurse to make? 1. If you would concentrate harder, you'd be aware of the reality of this pregnancy.
  2. My husband had no problem with this. What was your childhood like?
  3. You might need professional psychological counseling. Ask your physician.
  4. Many men feel this way. Feeling the baby move will help make it real.



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Answer to Question 1

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Explanation: 2. One begins to gain cultural competence by gaining cultural awareness or by gaining an effective and cognitive self-awareness of personal worldview biases, beliefs, etc.

Answer to Question 2

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Rationale 1: This is inappropriate for the nurse say.
Rationale 2: This is an inappropriate comment for the nurse to make.
Rationale 3: The partner's feelings are not indicative of psychological pathology.
Rationale 4: Ambivalence is common among partners, especially prior to their either seeing the baby on ultrasound or feeling the baby kick and move.





 

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