The nurse is caring for a newly admitted patient. Which intervention is the best example of a culturally appropriate nursing intervention?
a. Insist family members provide most of the patient's personal care.
b. Maintain a personal space of at least 2 feet when assessing the patient.
c. Ask permission before touching a patient during the physical assessment.
d. Consider the patient's ethnicity as the most important factor in planning care.
ANS: C
Many cultures consider it disrespectful to touch a patient without asking permission, so asking a patient for permission is always culturally appropriate. The other actions may be appropriate for some patients but are not appropriate across all cultural groups or for all individual patients. Ethnicity may not be the most important factor in planning care, especially if the patient has urgent physiologic problems.
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