A community health nurse is working with a home health client who immigrated to this country 15 years ago. The client has changed the country of origin's cultural patterns and has adopted the health care belief system of the United States
The community health nurse recognizes this as which type of change in the individual?
A) Acculturation
B) Culture
C) Diversity
D) Ethnicity
Ans: A
Acculturation is when an individual adapts to or changes cultural patterns to those of the new country. Diversity is the condition of being different or having differences. Ethnicity is one's identification with a group composed of people who share a unique cultural background and social heritage that is passed from one generation to another. Culture is the medium through which a person's beliefs, standards, and norms for health and illness behaviors are structured, learned, shared, practiced, and judged.
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