Two LPNs are colleagues on the same medical-surgical floor. They went to the same LPN school. When on break time, they discuss the holistic entries of the nursing care plans they are helping create. This behavior is an example of:
1. subculture.
2. democracy.
3. diversity.
4. ethnicity.
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Professional nursing is a subculture that is learned in the professional school and experienced by practitioners in practice settings, such as a hospital break room, where nurses of a similar subculture can solve patient care planning issues to provide holistic nursing care.
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