The nurse is caring for a patient from a different cultural background. What action by the nurse best demonstrates cultural maintenance?
a. Assist the patient with a healing ritual.
b. Teach the patient a heart healthy diet.
c. Instruct the patient on monitoring blood glucose.
d. Discuss what self-care activities the patient is willing to do.
ANS: A
Cultural maintenance maintains and preserves relevant cultural care values pertaining to health care. Assisting the patient with a healing ritual important to him/her is an example. Teaching a heart-healthy diet and blood glucose monitoring falls into cultural care repatterning. Discussing what changes the patient is willing to accommodate is an example of cultural care accommodation.
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