When confronted by large family groups, reflect on your thoughts, the actions you undertake and how you evaluate whether your actions are driven by your personal and/ or professional values and beliefs, and if you are being culturally responsive in such situations
What will be an ideal response?
Suggested response: Sometimes it is easier to function in the best way we know how. For some critical care nurses this may be by drawing on your own personal values and beliefs, which may be contrary to our professional expectations about culturally responsive care. If this is the case, work on strategies that facilitate being culturally responsive, which invariably is about meeting our professional obligations to consider patients' cultural backgrounds and that includes their families.
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