A nurse supports the use of traditional home remedies in conjunction with Western medicine to promote healthy behaviors. Which of the following is being demonstrated by the nurse?
a. Cultural accommodation
b. Cultural awareness
c. Cultural preservation
d. Cultural repatterning
ANS: C
Cultural preservation refers to assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling nurse actions and de-cisions that help the clients of a particular culture to retain and preserve traditional values, so they can maintain, promote, and restore health. Cultural accommodation refers to assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling nurse actions and decisions that help clients of a particular culture accept nursing strategies or negotiate with nurses to achieve satisfying health care outcomes. Cultural awareness refers to the self-examination and in-depth exploration of one's own biases, stereo-types, and prejudices as they influence behavior toward other cultural groups. Cultural repattern-ing refers to assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling nurse actions and decisions that help clients of a particular culture to change or modify a cultural practice for new or different health care patterns that are meaningful, satisfying, and beneficial.
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