Why Does the Nurse Stop and Think Before Implementing Touch

question 25

Multiple Choice

Why does the nurse stop and think before implementing touch when providing care to a patient from a different culture?

• A)Touch influences the patient's personal space.
• B)Touch influences environmental control.
• C)Touch impacts time orientation.
• D)Touch alters social organization.

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Definitions:

Diversion

The fallacy of trying to support one proposition by arguing for another proposition.

Argument

A rationale or series of arguments presented with the goal of convincing others of the validity or fallacy of a certain action or idea.

Appeal to Ignorance

A fallacy that asserts a proposition to be true because it has not been proved false or vice versa.

Atlantis

A mythical island nation mentioned in Plato's works, "Timaeus" and "Critias," as a powerful and advanced civilization that purportedly sank into the ocean in a single day and night of misfortune.