Maintaining a Culturally Diverse Staff and Working with a Culturally

question 7

Multiple Choice

Maintaining a culturally diverse staff and working with a culturally diverse patient population is an important function of a nurse manager who works in the hospital of a large medical center.On your palliative care unit,you have recently received complaints from families about ineffective pain management for their family members and you determine this occurs primarily when certain nurses are working.What approach might you take to resolve the concerns of the families,patients,and potentially,the staff?

• A) Reinforce to staff that practice guidelines support as-needed analgesia for the terminally ill.
• B) Ask staff input on the development of stricter guidelines to ensure that all terminally patients are given sufficient analgesia.
• C) Encourage conversation with patients and among staff that facilitates learning about cultural beliefs and priorities in dying.
• D) Advise families that the administration of analgesia is based on the expert clinical judgment of nurses who are familiar with care of patients in palliative care.

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Definitions:

Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Model

A theory of color vision proposing that the human eye has three types of receptors with different sensitivities to different light wavelengths.

Primary Color

Fundamental colors (typically red, yellow, and blue) that cannot be created by mixing other colors and from which other colors can be derived.

Trichromatic Theory

A theory of color vision that suggests the human eye has three types of receptors sensitive to different wavelengths of light, corresponding to red, green, and blue colors.

Afterimage

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