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lak

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During a crisis assessment due to the diagnosis of a terminal illness, the nurse is trying to determine what the client's history is with regard to losses. Which question will best assess this area?
 
  a. How easily do you adapt to new situations?
  b. What is your understanding of the current situation?
  c. Who or what has helped you through crisis situations in the past?
  d. How is this situation affecting your family?

Question 2

A health care aide insists that a patient with mental illness eat specific foods to balance energy forces. The patient tells the nurse, I go along with the diet to keep my aide happy. Which phenomenon is evident?
 
  a. Biculturalism
  b. Enculturation
  c. Cultural imposition.
  d. Culture-bound syndrome



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Answer to Question 1

C
This question will help one to determine how this client has dealt with crises in the past. Asking the client about adaptation to new situations assesses for other risk factors; and asking about the client's understanding of the situation or how the situation is affecting the client's family assesses what the illness means to the client.

Answer to Question 2

C
Cultural imposition occurs when a member of one culture forces a member of another culture to adhere to certain cultural norms. Biculturalism refers to the ability to move back and forth between traditional culture and a new culture. A culture-bound syndrome refers to a behavior that one culture understands as illness but not another culture. Enculturation refers to the transmission of cultural preferences within a cultural group.



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