To avoid a cultural taboo while making patient assignments for the nursing unit, the nurse would try to avoid assigning a Navajo nurse to:
A.
A patient in isolation with tuberculosis.
B.
A patient with jaundice.
C.
A dying patient.
D.
A patient of the opposite sex.
ANS: C
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