A patient from which cultural group is most likely to interpret your touching her arm as comforting and reassuring, as you intended?
a. Chinese c. Haitian
b. Japanese d. Middle Eastern
C
Haitians perceive touch as comforting, sympathetic, and reassuring. For the Chinese and Japanese, touching is limited and open expression of emotions is unacceptable. In the Middle Eastern cultures, men and women do not shake hands or touch each other in any manner outside the immediate family or marital relationship. Touching and embracing on arrival and on departure are common among the same sex, but not between sexes; therefore, the interpretation of a nurse touching a Middle Eastern patient would depend on the gender of the nurse and the patient.
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