A nurse advocates and intervenes between the health care system and the client's cultural beliefs on behalf of the client. Which of the following best describes the nurse's action?
a. Cultural accommodation
b. Culture brokering
c. Cultural preservation
d. Cultural repatterning
ANS: B
Culture brokering is advocating, mediating, negotiating, and intervening between the client's culture and the biomedical health care culture on behalf of clients. Cultural accommodation refers to assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling nurse actions and decisions that help clients of a particular culture accept nursing strategies or negotiate with nurses to achieve satisfying health care outcomes. Cultural preservation refers to assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling nurse actions and decisions that help the clients of a particular culture to retain and preserve traditional values, so they can maintain, promote, and restore health. Cultural repatterning refers to assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling nurse actions and decisions that help clients of a particular culture to change or modify a cultural practice for new or different health care patterns that are meaningful, satisfying, and beneficial.
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