The nurse is performing a cultural assessment on a patient. What does the nurse know about cultural assessments?
a. They are intrusive and time consuming.
b. They are not dependent on a trusting relationship.
c. They are rarely plagued by miscommunication.
d. They are based in similarities of behavior.
A
In contrast to other types of interviews, cultural assessment is intrusive and time consuming and requires a trusting relationship between participants. Miscommunication commonly occurs in intercultural transactions. This is because of language communication differences between and among participants and differences in interpreting each other's behaviors. Nurses use transcultural communication skills to interpret a patient's behavior within his or her own context of meanings and to behave in a culturally congruent way.
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