NCLEX Question for April 23rd

The nurse manager is concerned about cultural awareness among staff nurses. Each nurse is given a questionnaire to help identify the areas of personal cultural awareness that need to be examined. Which question will provide the staff nurses with important information to promote cultural awareness?

"Do you have an in-depth understanding of your own background?"

"How do you assess clients for cultural beliefs that influence medical care?"

"What methods are useful in providing client teaching regarding your beliefs?"

"How do you protect your cultural beliefs when caring for a client of a different culture?"

Correct!

Incorrect!

CORRECT - Nurses need to have a cultural awareness of their own cultural background in order to be able to relate to clients from different cultures. The nurse must perform a self-examination that includes biases, prejudices, and pre-formed ideas about people from other cultures.
Cultural skills include the ability for the nurse to assess clients for cultural beliefs that influence client medical care. While the skill is vital to providing culturally sensitive care, it is not a question that aids the nurse in gaining self cultural awareness.
It is not the responsibility of the nurse to teach clients about the nurse's beliefs. The nurse needs to be willing to assume the role of "learner" and gain knowledge from clients from different cultures.
When providing culturally sensitive care, the nurse should not need methods for protecting personal culture beliefs. Self-examination is a process that should put the nurse at ease with the nurse's cultural beliefs. The nurse is then able to learn from encounters with clients from other cultures.

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NCLEX Question for April 23rd

The nurse manager is concerned about cultural awareness among staff nurses. Each nurse is given a questionnaire to help identify the areas of personal cultural awareness that need to be examined. Which question will provide the staff nurses with important information to promote cultural awareness?

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NCLEX Question for April 23rd

The nurse manager is concerned about cultural awareness among staff nurses. Each nurse is given a questionnaire to help identify the areas of personal cultural awareness that need to be examined. Which question will provide the staff nurses with important information to promote cultural awareness?

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