When assessing a patient from a different culture, what is the most effective approach to meet the goal of cultural sensitivity?
1. Teach the patient how to assimilate into the dominant culture.
2. Explain to the patient that values must be adjusted to reach a healthy state.
3. Determine what aspects of the patient's life should be preserved as they are.
4. Ask the patient how he or she is alienated from his or her primary cultural group.
Answer: 3
Explanation: Cultural sensitivity is the process of increasing professional effectiveness through understanding, respecting, and appreciating the importance of cultural factors in the delivery of health services. Asking the patient how he or she is alienated, teaching the client to assimilate, and explaining that the patient's values have to be changed are neither sensitive nor supportive.
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