The nurse realizes that the primary goal of a cultural assessment is to:
1. Minimize client distress resulting from unmet cultural expectations
2. Provide care that is in concert with the client's cultural expectations
3. Identify cultural beliefs and traditions that are important to the client
4. Blend Western nursing practice with the client's cultural expectations
ANS: 2
The goal of cultural assessment is to gather significant information from the client that will enable the nurse to implement culturally congruent care. Minimizing distress is an achieved outcome when the goal of culturally congruent care is met. Identifying beliefs and traditions is an assess-ment goal that helps identify the criteria for individualized, culturally congruent care.
Blending Western nursing practice with cultural expectations will result in individualized, cultur-ally congruent care.
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