When Planning Care for a Hospitalized Patient Who Uses Culturally

question 11

Multiple Choice

When planning care for a hospitalized patient who uses culturally based treatments, the most appropriate action by the nurse is to

• A) discourage the use of culturally based treatments for Western diseases.
• B) teach the patient that folk remedies will interfere with Western treatments.
• C) ask the patient to discontinue the cultural treatments during hospitalization.
• D) coordinate the use of folk treatments with ordered medical therapies.

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