A nurse is assigned to work in a healthcare facility in an area of culture with which the nurse is unfamiliar. The nurse is caring for clients belonging to various ethnic groups
What is the most critical piece of information about race that the nurse needs to consider when collecting data? A) Skin, hair, and eye color are indicators of race.
B) Genetic diseases are restricted to a particular race.
C) Racial intermixing has blurred physical attributes.
D) Race is equivalent to culture and ethnicity.
C
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The nurse should be aware that racial mixing has blurred physical attributes. Hence, skin, hair, and eye color are no longer accurate indicators of race. Genetic diseases are not necessarily restricted to a particular race. Culture is the accumulated learning for generational groups of individuals within structured or nonstructured societies, and ethnicity is the common heritage shared by a specific culture.
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