A nurse begins work at an agency that provides care to members of a minority ethnic population. The nurse will be better able to demonstrate cultural competence after
a. identifying culture-bound issues.
b. implementing scientifically proven interventions.
c. correcting inferior health practices of the population.
d. exploring commonly held beliefs and values of the population.
D
Cultural competence is dependent on understanding the beliefs and values of members of a different culture. A nurse who works with an individual or group of a culture different from his or her own must be open to learning about the culture. The other options have little to do with cultural competence or represent only a portion of the answer.
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