Cultural assessment assumes that the nurse adopt a cultural perspective that includes the interacting viewpoints of objective, subjective, and which of the following?
a. abstract
b. contextual
c. introspective
d. retrospective
B
In addition to the objective and subjective viewpoints, the nurse's cultural perspective would include the contextual viewpoint. The contextual viewpoint refers to the context of the cross-cultural encounter, which includes the broader cultural, socioeconomic, and political inferences operating within the health care system and affecting the client and nurse.
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