Prior to assessing a patient from a different culture, which of the following should the nurse do to ensure cultural competence?
1. Review the patient's culture to ensure cultural awareness.
2. Find another nurse who knows the patient's native language.
3. Conduct the assessment as any other assessment would be done.
4. Leave the assessment to be done by another nurse.
Review the patient's culture to ensure cultural awareness.
Rationale: To provide the best care for the patient, the nurse should review information about the patient's culture to ensure awareness. As nurses enter into therapeutic relationships, they do so with persons of diverse beliefs and values. These beliefs and values are born from cultural and subcultural socialization. Nurses are expected to be culturally sensitive and competent, continually striving to provide culturally appropriate care to patients and families. The nurse should not seek another nurse to do the assessment or negate the fact that the patient is from another culture. The nurse should not leave the assessment for another nurse to complete.
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