To provide culturally competent care after becoming familiar with the way of life of individuals of a
particular culture, the nurse will
a. accurately interpret the thinking of individual clients.
b. anticipate how a client will perceive treatment interventions.
c. need to identify strategies that fit within the cultural context of the clients.
d. find it possible to devise interventions to reduce the client's ethnocentrism.
ANS: C
Cultural competence is a continual process of "becoming" as opposed to a state that is arrived at and
maintained without ongoing effort. Culture is dynamic, diversified, and changing. The nurse must be
prepared to gain cultural knowledge and then determine the nursing care measures that clients find
acceptable and helpful. Option A: Interpreting the thinking of individual clients cannot be done
simply by having knowledge of the culture. Option B: This may be true to some extent: however,
because of individual thinking, it cannot be a certainty. Option D: Reducing a client's ethnocentrism
may not be a desired outcome.
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