Providing culturally congruent care means providing care that
a. Fits the patient's valued life patterns and set of meanings.
b. Is based on meanings generated by predetermined criteria.
c. Is the same as the values of the professional health care system.
d. Holds one's own way of life as superior to those of others.
ANS: A
The goal of transcultural nursing is culturally congruent care, or care that fits the person's valued life patterns and set of meanings. Patterns and meanings are generated from people themselves, rather than from predetermined criteria. Culturally congruent care is sometimes different from the values and meanings of the professional health care system. Ethnocentrism is a tendency to hold one's own way of life as superior to those of others. It is not part of culturally congruent care.
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