As a nurse manager, you notice that Maria, a Hispanic nurse aide, is visibly upset
When you ask her if something is wrong, she becomes tearful and says, "Why is it that when John and I work together in giving patients care, he jokes about my being "a little fat Mexican"? The nurse man-ager's best response is, "Do you think he: a. Is sensitive to your culture?"
b. Wants to learn more about you?"
c. Has been hurt and wants to hurt others?"
d. Is stereotyping you without thinking?"
D
Prejudices "enable us to make sense of the situations in which we find ourselves, yet they also constrain understanding and limit the capacity to come to new or different ways of understanding. It is this contradiction that makes prejudice paradoxical." (Spence, 2004, p. 163). Prejudices enable us to predict behaviors and make sense of situations but constrain our understanding and development of new insights.
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