To demonstrate true cultural sensitivity and awareness, the nurse ...

[crobinson2013]

To demonstrate true cultural sensitivity and awareness, the nurse must:
 
  A) Travel to other countries on occasion
  B) Become bilingual
  C) Be competent in his or her own cultural heritage
  D) Know the practices of all major cultures in one's region of the country

Question 2

The nurse enters a client's home to provide care to a wound and teach the client's wife how to care for the wound. The nurse is comfortable with the client's culture and the fact that it is matriarchal in nature.
 
  As teaching begins, the husband interrupts and states that the woman does not change bandages according to his culture. He asks if the nurse is familiar with his culture and then says that all members of his neighborhood follow its principles. The nurse should suspect that the client is a member of:
  A) A cult
  B) An orthodox religious group
  C) A subculture
  D) An occupation

[stallen]

Answer to Question 1

Ans: C
Feedback:
The first imperative of cultural competence is to be competent in one's own cultural heritage. International travel, being bilingual, and knowing practices of major cultures are all helpful, but not as important as being competent in one's own cultural heritage.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: C
Feedback:
Just as any group of people from a certain place may share a culture, any group of people who share a certain characteristic can share a smaller culture, or subculture. In this situation, although the nurse is familiar with the culture of the client and her husband, it is apparent that they also belong to a subculture that the nurse is unfamiliar with. There is no indication that the client and her husband are members of a cult, orthodox religious group, or certain occupation, all of which are types of subcultures.