A Nurse Is Working with a Family from a Different

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Multiple Choice

A nurse is working with a family from a different culture with which he or she is not familiar.The family insists on continuing health practices that the nurse is trying to get them to abandon.This results in the nurse viewing the family as noncompliant, because they seem to understand the instructions.Which action by the nurse would be most helpful?

• A) Ask the family to describe the importance of their beliefs.
• B) Call an interpreter to make sure they really understand.
• C) Determine whether instructions are available in their language.
• D) Give the family both written and verbal instructions.

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