A Mexican American mother insists on using special candles to help her daughter's ear infection. The nurse asks the mother if she would also give her daughter antibiotics. Which of the following best describes the action of the nurse?

Question

a. Cultural accommodation
b. Cultural repatterning
c. Culture brokering
d. Cultural awareness

Answer 1

ANS: A
This means that the nurse supports and facilitates the use of cultural practices with interventions from the biomedical health care system. Cultural accommodation refers to assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling nurse actions and decisions that help clients of a particular culture accept nursing strategies or negotiate with nurses to achieve satisfying health care outcomes. Cultural repatterning refers to assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling nurse actions and decisions that help clients of a particular culture to change or modify a cultural practice for new or differ-ent health care patterns that are meaningful, satisfying, and beneficial. Culture brokering is ad-vocating, mediating, negotiating, and intervening between the client's culture and the biomedical health care culture on behalf of clients. 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.