A New Mother on the OB Unit Refuses to Allow

question 6

Multiple Choice

A new mother on the OB unit refuses to allow her newborn to wear disposable diapers. She insists on applying cloth diapers without safety pins, because this is how her culture applies diapers. During break, the nurse discusses the patient's strange diapering technique compared with the excellent American method of diapering. Besides violating confidentiality, the nurse is displaying

• A) ethnocentrism.
• B) stereotyping.
• C) unusual behavior during break.
• D) lack of adherence to hospital policy on diapering.

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