During a conference after rounds, a nurse states, "They are in the United States now; you would think that they would act like us." This nurse is exhibiting:
A) Cultural humility
B) Ethnocentrism
C) Cultural competence
D) Cross-cultural nursing
Ans: B
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Ethnocentrism refers to the tendency of people to view their way of doing things and their culture as superior to the cultures and ways of others. Cultural humility requires community health nurses to continually self-evaluate and critique their own cultural assumptions and advocate for their clients in a nonpaternalistic way. In nursing, cultural competence means considering cultural aspects of health, illness, and treatment for each client or community, as well as doing so at each stage of the nursing process. Cross-cultural nursing is any nursing work in which the nurse and client have different cultures.
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