The nurse learns about cultural issues involved in the patient's health care belief system and enables patients and families to achieve meaningful and supportive care. Which concept is the nurse demonstrating?
a. Marginalized groups
b. Health care disparity
c. Transcultural nursing
d. Culturally congruent care
ANS: D
The nurse is demonstrating culturally congruent care. Culturally congruent care, or care that fits a person's life patterns, values, and system of meaning, provides meaningful and beneficial nursing care. Marginalized groups are populations left out or excluded. Health care disparities are differences among populations in the availability, accessibility, and quality of health care services (e.g. screening, diagnostic, treatment, management, and rehabilitation) aimed at prevention, treatment, and management of diseases and their complications. Transcultural nursing is a comparative study of cultures in order to understand their similarities (culture that is universal) and the differences among them (culture that is specific to particular groups).
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