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melina_rosy

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An 80-year-old Orthodox Jewish patient dies in the hospital. What should be the first action by the nurse?
 
  a. Notify the rabbi to send a member of the synagogue to stay with the body.
  b. Inform the mortuary about the desire of the patient to be cremated.
  c. Prepare the body for the ritual bath by temple members before embalming.
  d. Facilitate removal of the body because the burial must take place 48 hours after death.

Question 2

How does a culturally sensitive nurse care for a patient with a different value system?
 
  a. The nurse is open and nonjudgmental.
  b. The nurse treats all patients the same without concern for their value system.
  c. The nurse explains the differences between the two value systems.
  d. The nurse abandons his or her own value system.


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carolinefletcherr

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Reply #1 on: Jul 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: A
A synagogue member will come to pray and read scripture from the time of death to the time of burial, which must take place 24 hours after death. The reader will accompany the body to the morgue, mortuary, and burial site. Jewish persons are forbidden to be cremated or embalmed.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A
Persons are prone to view those with a different value system from their own in a negative and prejudicial manner.


melina_rosy

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Reply 2 on: Jul 11, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

rachel

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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