A nurse works in a mental health clinic serving many Southeast Asian individuals. Which state-ment by the nurse would validate a striving toward cultural competence?
1. "I know all I care to know about the Hmongs and their problems."
2. "My dream is to be assigned to a clinic where I could work with my own kind."
3. "It's a challenge to plan treatment that is culturally congruent."
4. "Psychiatric care tends to be the same for folks of all cultures."
ANS: 3
An outcome of cultural competence on the part of the nurse would be to plan and implement culturally congruent care. A statement acknowledging this as a challenge (option 3) suggests the nurse is at the conscious competent stage. The other options suggest the nurse is in the stage of unconscious incompetence.
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