The nurse caring for a Native American client should inquire if the client utilizes which of the following?
A) Medicine man or woman
B) Priest
C) Rabbi
D) Preacher
Ans: A
Many Native Americans utilize a medicine men and women, who have specialized spirits from whom they receive the mission to cure. Priest is a term used for holy men in the Roman Catholic religion; rabbi in the Jewish religion; preacher in the protestant faiths.
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