A patient from a culture that differs from that of the nurse is hospitalized and near death. What action by the nurse best demonstrates cultural care preservation?
a. Allowing the family to remain at the bed-side
b. Pinning a healing amulet to the patient's gown
c. Offering the family food and drink in the room
d. Giving the family time to be alone with the patient
B
Cultural care preservation refers to those assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling profes-sional actions and decisions that help people of a particular culture to retain and maintain their well-being, to recover from illness, or to face handicaps or death. Allowing the patient to have healing artifacts important in his or her culture nearby best demonstrates this concept. The other actions are caring but do not demonstrate this principle.
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