To meet a client's needs, it is sometimes necessary to integrate into the client's care a culturally relevant practice that lacks scientific utility. This is known as cultural:
a. Accommodation
b. Brokering
c. Preservation
d. Repatterning
A
Cultural accommodation refers to assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling nurse actions and decisions that help people of a particular culture to accept nursing strategies, or to negotiate with nurses to achieve satisfying health care outcomes.
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