A psychiatric nurse leads a medication education group for ...

[haleyc112]

A psychiatric nurse leads a medication education group for Hispanic patients. This nurse holds a Western worldview and uses pamphlets as teaching tools. Groups are short and concise. After the group, the patients are most likely to believe:
 
  a. the nurse was uncaring.
  b. the session was effective.
  c. the teaching was efficient.
  d. they were treated respectfully.

Question 2

Which Western cultural feature may result in establishing unrealistic outcomes for patients of other cultural groups?
 
  a. Interdependence
  b. Present orientation
  c. Flexible perception of time
  d. Direct confrontation to solve problems

[bhavsar]

Answer to Question 1

ANS: A
Hispanic individuals usually value relationship behaviors. Their needs are for learning through verbal communication rather than reading and for having time to chat before approaching the task.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Directly confronting problems is a highly valued approach in the American culture but not part of many other cultures in which harmony and restraint are valued. American nurses sometimes mistakenly think that all patients should take direct action. Patients with other values will be unable to meet this culturally inappropriate outcome. Present orientation, interdependence, and a flexible perception of time are not valued in Western culture. These views are more predominant in other cultures. See relationship to audience response question.

[haleyc112]

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[bhavsar]

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