When a labor and delivery nurse tells a coworker that an Asian patient probably did not want any pain medication because "Asian women typically are stoic," the nurse is expressing a belief known as
A) Stigma
B) Ethnic slur
C) Bias
D) Stereotype
Ans: D
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