A new graduate nurse is working in a busy emergency department of a hospital, situated in a culturally diverse area of the city. In striving to be culturally sensitive, the nurse will:
1. Try to learn about the attitudes toward health care and traditions of the different cultures in that area.
2. Understand and attend to the total context of the client's situation, using knowledge, attitudes, and skills.
3. Possess the underlying background knowledge that will provide these clients with the best possible health care.
4. Continuously strive to be culturally competent.
Correct Answer: 1
Rationale 1: Cultural sensitivity implies that nurses possess some basic knowledge of and constructive attitudes toward the health traditions observed among the diverse cultural groups found in the setting in which they are practicing.
Rationale 2: To understand and attend to the total context of the client's situation, using knowledge, attitudes, and skills is a general nursing expectation and does not address cultural sensitivity directly.
Rationale 3: To possess the underlying background knowledge that will provide these clients with the best possible health care is a general nursing expectation and does not address cultural sensitivity directly.
Rationale 4: Cultural sensitivity implies that nurses possess some basic knowledge not competency of and constructive attitudes toward the health traditions observed among the diverse cultural groups found in the setting in which they are practicing.
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