A psychiatric nurse leads a medication education group for Hispanic outpatients
This nurse holds an analytic worldview and uses pamphlets as teaching tools. Group sessions are short and concise. After the group session, the patients are most likely to believe that:
a. the nurse was uncaring.
b. the session was effective.
c. the teaching was efficient.
d. they were treated respectfully.
A
Hispanic individuals usually have a relational worldview. Their needs are for learning through verbal communication rather than reading and for having time to chat before approaching the task. An individual with a relational worldview would be unlikely to hold any of the other views.
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