When interacting with a client from a culture with which the nurse is unfamiliar, the nursing ac-tion that fosters accurate nursing diagnosis would be to:
1. Seek information about the client's specific cultural group
2. Interact based on the predominant cultural group
3. Interact based on the nurse's culture
4. Interact in a way that combines several cultures
ANS: 1
Most individuals are open to discussing their culture and to answering the nurse's questions about the cultural group. Options 2, 3, and 4 will inevitably lead to inaccurate assessment, mis-used nursing diagnoses, and inadequate or inappropriate care planning.
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