A nurse is assessing an 84-year-old female Chinese American's pain following her left hemiarthroplasty 2 days prior. Which of the following characteristics of Chinese Americans should the nurse be aware of during this assessment?
A) Chinese Americans often view pain as a virtue and tend to underreport it.
B) Chinese Americans have a fatalistic view of pain and see analgesia as inappropriate and undeserved.
C) Chinese women often overstate their pain in light of health care providers' reluctance to provide analgesia.
D) There is often a reluctance to acknowledge pain among older Chinese Americans.
D
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Discomfort is not typically aggressively or openly displayed by Chinese persons. Pain is not noted to be seen as a virtue or in a fatalistic light. Pain is not commonly overstated.
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