Which action is most consistent with providing culturally competent care to patients with psychiatric disorders?
Reviewing the patient’s cultural heritage based on information in the medical record
Seeking input from members of the patient’s care team
Providing patient care that is institutionally specific
Asking what the illness means to the patient
Asking what the illness means to the patient
Providing culturally competent care to patients diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder includes asking patients what the illness means to them. Reviewing the patient’s cultural heritage in the medical record is not sufficient. The nurse must ask direct questions to the client and family regarding culture. The nurse would seek input from the patient’s family to provide culturally competent care, not the other members of the healthcare team. The nurse would provide person-centered, not institutionally-centered, care.
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