The nurse who is advocating for culturally diverse patient issues knows that cultural competence and sensitivity are based primarily on what information?
1. Life experiences
2. Patient assessment
3. Uniformity training
4. Population diversity
Answer: 4
Explanation: Nurses need to make a conscious decision to acknowledge and value the diversity in others. Developing cultural competence and sensitivity needed for comprehensive care is based on new knowledge, personal self-assessment, supervised practice, mentoring experiences, experience in culturally diverse clinical practice settings, participation in discussions, and diversity training. Uniformity training, life experiences, and patient assessments are not the principle factors that make up cultural competence and sensitivity. While it is vital for the nurse to display cultural competence and sensitivity while performing a patient assessment, cultural competence is not based primarily on patient assessment.
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