Care that includes the nurse learning about cultural issues involved in the patient's health care belief system and enable patients and families to achieve meaningful and supportive care is known as

Question

a. Ethnocentrism.
b. Culturally competent care.
c. Cultural imposition.
d. Culturally congruent care.

Answer 1

B
The goal of transcultural nursing is culturally congruent care, or care that fits the person's valued life patterns and set of meanings. Culturally competent care reflects the ability of a nurse to bridge cultural gaps in caring and enables patients and families to achieve meaningful and supportive caring. It is a step toward reaching culturally congruent care. Ethnocentrism is a tendency to hold one's own way of life as superior to those of others. It is the cause of biases and prejudices. Cultural imposition is the use of one's own values and lifestyles as the absolute guide in dealing with patients and interpreting behaviors.