A patient from a different culture tells the nurse about eating ...

[lindiwe]

A patient from a different culture tells the nurse about eating specific foods during pregnancy and after childbirth to ensure a healthy mother and infant. Which cultural phenomena does this behavior exemplify?
 
  1. Social organization
  2. Environmental control
  3. Time orientation
  4. Biological variation

Question 2

Which characteristic exemplifies ethnocentrism in nursing?
 
  1. Ambivalence to health concerns of groups beyond their dominant social group
  2. Caring for members of their own ethnic group
  3. Seeing nursing as the only method to address health concerns.
  4. Willingness to acknowledge other methods beyond nursing to address health concerns

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Answer to Question 1

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Explanation: 1. Social organization is the social environment where people grow up and live. While certain foods may be characteristic of specific social organizations, it is not a practice that is dependent on cultural expectations for health.
2. Environmental control is the ability of members of a particular cultural group to plan activities that control nature or direct environmental factors. Included in this concept are the complex systems of traditional health and illness beliefs, the practice of folk medicine, and the use of traditional healers.
3. Time orientation refers to how time is viewed by a cultural group, whether it is oriented toward the present, past, or future. Specific food consumption is not affected by time orientation.
4. Biological variations are the physical and genetic ways that cultural groups may differ from one another. Consumption of specific foods is not a biological variation.

Answer to Question 2

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Explanation: 1. Ambivalence to health concerns beyond their dominant social group is indifference and can be a form of discrimination.
2. Willingness to care only for the members of their own ethnic group can be a form of racism.
3. Ethnocentrism is a belief that one's own cultural, ethnic, or professional group is superior to that of others. Nurses who view nursing as the only method of addressing health concerns exhibit ethnocentrism.
4. Being willing to acknowledge other methods to address health concerns is an aspect of cultural acceptance.