Health care facilities that sponsor health-promotion activities only in affluent areas are considered:
A) Culturally sensitive
B) Culturally blind
C) Culturally affluent
D) Culturally different
Ans: B
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Another way of thinking about ethnocentrism in nursing is that it can reflect an individual's, a group's, or an agency's cultural blindness. It can also reflect a lack of capacity to reach out effectively to minorities or culturally stigmatized groups.
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