When assessing a client from a culture different from that of the nurse, which of the following is an effective approach to meet the goal of cultural sensitivity?
1. Ask the client how he or she is alienated from his or her primary cultural group.
2. Determine what aspects of the client's life should be preserved as they are.
3. Explain to the client that values must be adjusted to reach a healthy state.
4. Teach the client how to assimilate into the dominant culture.
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Rationale: Cultural sensitivity is the process of increasing professional effectiveness through understanding, respecting, and appreciating the importance of cultural factors in the delivery of health services. Asking the client how he or she is alienated, teaching the client to assimilate, and explaining that the client's values have to be changed are ethnocentric strategies and not supportive.
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