Which point should the nurse include when teaching about concurrent use of alternative and prescription medicines?
a. Health care providers need to know when the patient is using both.
b. Health care provider cultural incompetence on this topic is relatively high.
c. Most nursing actions are consciously directed towards fulfilling holistic goals.
d. It is usually dangerous to combine these two types of patient-focused therapies.
ANS: A
Only when the provider has accurate information about all therapies in use can safe, effective care be provided. The provider cannot function with incomplete assessment information. New standards for cultural competency exist and are generally observable. It is not univer-sally true that nurses focus on holistic goals because many actions are designed to alleviate symptoms. Alternative and conventional therapies can be effectively used together.
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