A client, diagnosed with hypertension, is prescribed a no added salt, low-fat diet.
He agrees and repeats the teaching principles. The next visit you find salted meat on the counter and the client shows you his food diary. The diet in the past week does not reflect the physician's orders. What cultural component may have contributed to the noncompliance with the diet order?
A) Diet may be too lean.
B) Wife cooks according to husband's preferences.
C) Diet may not meet the cultural criteria for food choices.
D) Food tastes bland and unappetizing.
Question 2
You enter a client's home to provide care to a wound and teach the wife how to care for the wound.
You are comfortable with the client's culture and the fact that it is matriarchal in nature. You begin to teach the wife and the husband interrupts and states that a woman does not change bandages according to his culture. He asks if you are familiar with his culture and that all members of his neighborhood follow its principles. You suspect that your client is a member of a
A) cult.
B) orthodox religious group.
C) subculture.
D) community.
Establishing a caring and trusting relationship helps the client come to terms with a terminal illne
To increase pressure using body weight, lean on your client.
The Healthy Mediterranean Diet Pyramid
Positioning the client
The Japanese's diet
Table salt.