For nurses to provide culturally sensitive health care to members of different cultural groups, it is important that nurses in community-based practice do all of the following except
1. Acquire knowledge about the cultural groups including health-seeking behaviors, folk medicine practices, and rites and rituals.
2. Adopt a totally nonjudgmental attitude and accepting demeanor of all culturally based beliefs and practices.
3. Explain the dynamics of the U.S. health care system to clients new to the system.
4. Recognize and respond to indications of a client's interpersonal discomfort.
ANS: 2
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