To meet a client's needs, it is sometimes necessary to integrate into the client's care a culturally relevant practice that lacks scientific utility. Which of the following best describes this action?
a. Cultural accommodation
b. Cultural awareness
c. Cultural preservation
d. Cultural repatterning
ANS: A
Cultural accommodation refers to assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling nurse actions and decisions that help people of a particular culture to accept nursing strategies, or to negotiate with nurses to achieve satisfying health care outcomes. Cultural awareness refers to the self-examination and in-depth exploration of one's own biases, stereotypes, and prejudices as they influence behavior toward other cultural groups. Cultural preservation refers to assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling nurse actions and decisions that help the clients of a particular culture to retain and preserve traditional values so they can maintain, promote, and restore health. Cultural repatterning refers to assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling nurse actions and de-cisions that help clients of a particular culture to change or modify a cultural practice for new or different health care patterns that are meaningful, satisfying, and beneficial.
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