The nurse should anticipate that an individual's culture will have the most significant influence on which of the following situations?
A) Mr. Tan's physician has prescribed a new antipsychotic medication.
B) Mrs. Al-Aziz has begun grieving because her husband of several decades has just died.
C) Mrs. Ramos will soon begin electroconvulsive therapy for the treatment of her depression.
D) Stephen, a client with schizophrenia, has begun a new class on life skills.
Ans: B
Culture has a profound impact on nearly every aspect of the human experience, but this is especially true in the expression of belief. Ethnopharmacology demonstrates that there are differences in medication responses, but this effect is less influential than the effect of culture on grieving.
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