A nurse has scheduled a specific time for a group of Latino patients with diabetes to come for diabetic teaching, but the group does not come until almost an hour later. What should the cultu-rally competent nurse suspect has occurred?
a. The language barrier caused a miscom-munication.
b. Denial about the disease has delayed ar-rival.
c. Their culture places little significance on the concept of time.
d. Timely arrival is rude because it may in-convenience the hostess.
C
Some cultures place little to no significance on formal time and appear late or not at all for ap-pointments.
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1. Make visits during the day and tell the supervisor clients are not home when visited at night. 2. Obtain research material to provide reasons why routine nursing visits at night are not as effective as during daytime. 3. Encourage others to refuse to make routine visits at night so you will not be alone. 4. Take the supervisor to lunch and invite all the staff to join to talk the supervisor into changing the policy.
Which pair of qualitative design and important features is accurate?
1. Grounded theory–bracketing. 2. Case study–constant comparison. 3. Historical–criticism. 4. Phenomenological–key informants.
The pain associated with pericarditis is ____
A. Crushing and squeezing B. Constant C. Worse with inspiration D. Only present with fever
Select the patient who would benefit least from the nurse reading from the New Testament
a. Mrs. A of the Assembly of God b. Mr. B, who is Roman Catholic c. Miss C, who is a Jehovah's Witness d. Mr. D, who is an Orthodox Jew