A nurse practitioner (NP) who specializes in serving the elderly population is learning Spanish to help increase her ability to communicate with the clients in her practice. The NP is aware that:
A) the elderly Hispanic population is the fastest growing elderly population in the United States.
B) it is not important to learn the language that your clients speak.
C) the elderly population is steadily moving toward the southern states, and learning Spanish will help the NP teach patients in the future.
D) the Hispanic population has large families, so most elderly Hispanics will have a family member present to help with interpretation.
Question 2
Nancy is a nurse of Hispanic background who is working with a population of older white males on an Alzheimer's unit at the Veteran's Hospital. One of the patients makes an angry racist comment to Nancy about all Latinos being lazy.
What is Nancy's best response? a. consider his disease process and excuse the behavior
b. report the incident to the nurse manager
c. correct the patient by saying, I am not lazy
d. ask to be removed from caring for that patient
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