A nurse is assessing a patient's ethnohistory. Which question should the nurse ask?
a. What language do you speak at home?
b. How different is your life here from back home?
c. Which caregivers do you seek when you are sick?
d. How different is what we do from what your family does when you are sick?
ANS: B
An ethnohistory question is the following: How different is your life here from back home? Caring beliefs and practice questions include the following: Which caregivers do you seek when you are sick and How different is what we do from what your family does when you are sick? The language and communication is the following: What language do you speak at home?
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