The nurse sets a goal to avoid stereotyping culturally diverse patients. Which of the following measures will help the nurse attain this goal?
a. Automatically apply all information known about a culture to patients of that cultural group.
b. Assume that all individuals from Southeast Asia practice Buddhism.
c. Refer to textbook information about cultural groups to predict individual behavior.
d. Gather information about how the patient believes illness can best be treated.
ANS: D
The treatments generally used by a patient will correspond to beliefs about illness causation and may reveal the expectation to combine Eastern and Western treatments. Automatically applying all information known about a culture to patients of that group, assuming that all individuals from Southeast Asia practice Buddhism, and referring to textbook information to predict individual behavior do not take into account the individual differences of patients from the same cultural groups.
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