A community health nurse is working in a large urban city, ...

[jerry coleman]

A community health nurse is working in a large urban city, situated in a culturally diverse area of the country. What does the nurse need to do to be culturally competent
 
  A) Recognize that people with cultural backgrounds different from our own have unique values, life ways, health practices, and interpersonal styles.
  B) Understand and address the total context of the client's situation, using knowledge, attitudes, and skills.
  C) Be aware that people adapt to and borrow traits from another culture and change their own cultural patterns to those of the host society.
  D) Remember that an individual's own traditional beliefs and practices of their culture must always be observed.

Question 2

Emancipatory inquiry provides a framework to expand the political consciousness of the disenfranchised in a community. Who identifies the important problems for this inquiry?
 
  A) Community members
  B) Community health nurse
  C) Community health professionals
  D) Community medical director

[amandalm]

Answer to Question 1

Ans: A
Being culturally competent means that we understand how cultural beliefs and practices influence our daily lives and recognize that people with cultural backgrounds different from our own have unique values, life ways, health practices, and interpersonal styles. Cultural appropriateness occurs when a nurse understands and addresses the total context of the client's situation, using knowledge, attitudes, and skills. Cultural acculturation is being aware that people adapt to and borrow traits from another culture and change their own cultural patterns to those of the host society. Heritage consistency relates to the observance of beliefs and practices of an individual's traditional cultural system that may be observed.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: A
The problems examined through emancipatory inquiry are those that community members believe are important and not necessarily those identified by health professionals in the community. Nurses are challenged to awaken the spirit of social change among those who are most vulnerable in our communities.