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JMatthes · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

The nurse is caring for a client who is from a culture for which the nurse has a limited knowledge base. The nurse conducts the admission interview using cultural humility. Which should the nurse ask in the interview? (Select all that apply.)

A) Yes or no questions
B) About traditions
C) Open-ended questions
D) How the client has addressed the illness
E) If the cause of the illness is spiritual

Question 2

A nurse, new to the community health agency, works in a culturally diverse area of the community. The nurse is responsible for providing holistic care to clients and to be culturally competent.

The health agency requires the nurse to demonstrate which competency to exhibit cultural competence? (Select all that apply.)
A) Value diversity
B) Adopt the client's cultural values
C) Acquire cultural knowledge
D) Adapt to diversity
E) Speak the language of the client

atrochim · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans: B, C, D
Feedback:
Cultural humility requires community health nurses to continually self-evaluate and critique their own cultural assumptions and advocate for their clients in a nonpaternalistic way. To do this, they should ask open-ended questions (not yes or no questions) about beliefs and practices of the client and family; ask about traditions; and ask what the client does think may have caused the illness and how the client has already tried to address it. Asking if the cause of the illness is spiritual is a yes or no question.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: A, C, D
Feedback:
For community and public health agencies to be culturally competent, they must do the following: have a defined set of values and principles and demonstrate behaviors, attitudes, policies, and structures that enable them to work effectively cross-culturally; have the capacity to (1) value diversity, (2) conduct self-assessment, (3) manage the dynamics of difference, (4) acquire and institutionalize cultural knowledge, and (5) adapt to diversity and the cultural contexts of the communities they serve; and incorporate this capacity in all aspects of policy making, administration, practice, and service delivery, as well as systematically involve consumers, key stakeholders, and communities.