The nurse plans care for a hospitalized patient who uses culturally based treatments. Which action by the nurse is best?
a. Encourage the use of diagnostic procedures.
b. Coordinate the use of folk treatments with ordered medical therapies.
c. Ask the patient to discontinue the cultural treatments during hospitalization.
d. Teach the patient that folk remedies will interfere with orders by the health care provider.
ANS: B
Many culturally based therapies can be accommodated along with the use of Western treatments and medications. The nurse should attempt to use both traditional folk treatments and the ordered Western therapies as much as possible. Some culturally based treatments can be effective in treating "Western" diseases. Not all folk remedies interfere with Western therapies. It may be appropriate for the patient to continue some culturally based treatments while he or she is hospitalized.
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