Which is the best thing the nurse can do to provide culturally sensitive care?
A) Become familiar with physical differences among ethnic groups.
B) Provide the proper food for nourishment.
C) Accept each client as a unique individual.
D) Facilitate rituals that bring comfort to the client.
C
Feedback:
Becoming familiar with physical differences, providing food that is customary to the culture, and facilitating rituals are all recommendations for enhancing sensitive cultural care, but according to Leininger, accepting each client as an individual is a characteristic that is found in the specialty of transcultural nursing.
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