What Are Some Strategies a New Nurse Can Use to Develop

question 19

Multiple Choice

What are some strategies a new nurse can use to develop skills in achieving cultural competence? Select all that apply.

• A) Read the literature and study nursing theories and principles pertaining to culture
• B) Take advantage of as many opportunities as possible to interact with persons from diverse cultures
• C) Recognize that persons from different cultures have different healthcare practices but for safety purposes, need to follow the medical and nursing plan of care
• D) Understand basic practices of the most common cultures so he can choose the best interventions to care for patients from those cultures

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Definitions:

Prosopagnosia

A specific inability to recognize faces, even very familiar ones, with intact recognition of other objects.

Arbitrariness

The lack of any necessary or natural relationship between a sign's physical form and its meaning.

Discreteness

The characteristic of data or systems that have distinct, separate values or components.

Regularity

The condition or quality of being uniform, consistent, or repeating in a predictable pattern, often observed in natural phenomena, behaviors, and structures.