Cultural Competence Is the Ongoing Process in Which a Health

question 8

Multiple Choice

Cultural competence is the ongoing process in which a health care professional continuously strives to achieve the ability to work effectively within the cultural context.To do this effectively,what must the nurse do?

• A) Understand the cultural norms of the patient's community.
• B) See herself or himself as being culturally competent.
• C) Face the reality that cultural competence can take up to a year to achieve.
• D) View herself or himself as becoming culturally competent.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A confidence interval is a range of values, derived from the sample data, that is believed to contain the true population parameter with a certain level of confidence.

Sample Sizes

The number of observations or data points from the population used to make estimations about the population.

Critical Value Z

A threshold value on the standard normal distribution used in hypothesis testing to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data during a hypothesis test. It is used to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis.