At present, 87% of nurses are Caucasian. The future of transcultural nursing care lies in finding ways to promote cultural competence in nursing students. What is one way that is being explored to accomplish this?
A) Offering multicultural health studies in their curricula
B) Enhancing the content of community nursing classes
C) Admitting a larger variety of ethnic groups into nursing school
D) Creating transcultural goals for nursing students
Ans: A
Feedback: Nursing programs are exploring creative ways to promote cultural competence and humanistic care in nursing students, including offering multicultural health studies in their curricula. Enhancing the content of community nursing classes would promote cultural competence in the community, not in nursing students. Admissions to nursing school are based on predicted ability to complete the curricula and pass the NCLEX, not on what ethnic group you belong to. Creating transcultural goals for nursing students would not promote cultural competence in nursing students.
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