A Native American client is requesting that a medicine man be present during his inpatient hospitalization, a request that the nurse has helped to facilitate
The nurse is functioning within which of the following nursing care modes as described by Leininger?
A) Culture care administration/management
B) Culture care accommodation/negotiation
C) Culture care repatterning/restructuring
D) Culture care preservation/maintenance
Ans: B
In this situation, the nurse is functioning within the culture care accommodation/negotiation nursing care mode. The nurse adapts nursing care to accommodate the client's beliefs or negotiate aspects of care that would require the client to change certain practices. If rituals and other spiritually focused activities are important to the client, clinicians must respect and work with, not against, this philosophy.
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