You enter a client's home to provide care to a wound and teach the wife how to care for the wound
You are comfortable with the client's culture and the fact that it is matriarchal in nature. You begin to teach the wife and the husband interrupts and states that a woman does not change bandages according to his culture. He asks if you are familiar with his culture and that all members of his neighborhood follow its principles. You suspect that your client is a member of a
A) cult.
B) orthodox religious group.
C) subculture.
D) community.
C
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