A Nurse Is Caring for a Patient from a Culture

question 34

Multiple Choice

A nurse is caring for a patient from a culture with which the nurse is totally unfamiliar.What action by the nurse will best promote effective communication?

• A) Call for a professional interpreter to translate information.
• B) Pattern voice tone and eye contact after the patient's behaviors.
• C) Talk slowly and deliberately using simple language and cues.
• D) Use nonverbal communication as much as possible with the patient.

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Definitions:

Duration

A financial metric that estimates the weighted average time it takes for an investor to be repaid the bond's cash flows, serving as a measure of interest rate sensitivity.

Promised Yield

The return that a bond issuer agrees to pay to the bondholder until maturity, expressed as an annual percentage.

Coupon Rate

The annual interest rate paid by a bond issuer to the bondholder, usually expressed as a percentage of the bond's face value.

Duration

A measure of the sensitivity of the price (the value of principal) of a fixed-income investment to a change in interest rates, often expressed in years.