When Assessing a Patient from a Different Culture, What Is

question 21

Multiple Choice

When assessing a patient from a different culture, what is the most effective approach to meet the goal of cultural sensitivity?

• A) Teach the patient how to assimilate into the dominant culture.
• B) Explain to the patient that values must be adjusted to reach a healthy state.
• C) Determine what aspects of the patient's life should be preserved as they are.
• D) Ask the patient how he or she is alienated from his or her primary cultural group.

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Definitions:

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a given statistic based on a random sample, used to infer properties of an entire population.

Population Mean

The average of all the values in a population.

Sampling Distribution

The distribution of a statistic (such as the mean) computed from a sample, over repeated sampling from the same population.

Variability

The extent to which data points differ from each other and from the mean of the data set.