Author Question: Compare the following statements. Which are considered predominant in non-Western cultures? (Select ... (Read 56 times)

Ebrown · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

Compare the following statements. Which are considered predominant in non-Western cultures? (Select all that apply.)

a. Causes of illness are biomedical in nature.
b. Illness is an imbalance between humans and nature.
c. Caring patterns are based in self-care and self-determination.
d. Diagnoses are described as holistic.
e. Treatment of disease can be magico-religious based.

Question 2

Providing culturally congruent care means providing care that

a. Fits the patient's valued life patterns and set of meanings.
b. Is based on meanings generated by predetermined criteria.
c. Is the same as the values of the professional health care system.
d. Holds one's own way of life as superior to those of others.

Ddddd · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: B, D, E
Many non-Western cultures see the cause of illness as being an imbalance between humans and nature. Method of diagnosis is described as holistic, and treatment of illness is mixed to include magico-religious, supernatural herbal, biomedical, etc. Western cultures view the cause of illness as biomedical using scientific, high-tech methods of diagnosis.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A
The goal of transcultural nursing is culturally congruent care, or care that fits the person's valued life patterns and set of meanings. Patterns and meanings are generated from people themselves, rather than from predetermined criteria. Culturally congruent care is sometimes different from the values and meanings of the professional health care system. Ethnocentrism is a tendency to hold one's own way of life as superior to those of others. It is not part of culturally congruent care.