As a nurse manager, you have hired two new staff members who have recently come to the United States from other countries. Which of the following strategies might indicate your efforts to assist these staff members with acculturation to your unit?
a. Analyze a recent situation with them in which an order with a physician was not clarified and explore their beliefs about nurse-physician relationships.
b. Expect them to behave in ways that are expected of staff who have grown up and been educated in the United States.
c. Stress to these new staff that your unit is a "family" and that staff members take pride in saying that they are from Unit 4.
d. Recognize that culture develops over time and leave them alone to figure out differ-ences between their culture and that of the unit.
A
Acculturation refers to adapting to a particular culture. Assimilation occurs when individuals now define themselves as members of the dominant culture and is evidenced by when individuals say they are from where they live and practice. When individuals grow up within a culture and take on the characteristics of that culture, it is referred to as socialization. Assisting the staff to recognize differences in the relationships between physicians and nurses on the unit and those in their country of origin is assisting adaptation or acculturation and is promoting positive patient outcomes.
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