A nursing colleague tells you, "I can't stand caring for people from other cultures, they just don't value or believe in what is important in this country." You hypothesize that your colleague is expressing which of the following?
a. open-mindedness c. ethnocentrism
b. prejudice d. ignorance
C
The nurse is most likely expressing cultural biases, or ethnocentrism, a condition
that occurs when individuals or groups of people perceive their own cultural
group and cultural values, beliefs, norms, and customs to be superior to all others
and have disdain for the expression and expresser of any way of life but their own.
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