Exam 6: Cultural Aspects of Nursing Care

A practicing Hindu patient is dying but has orders for a full diet.However,the patient will accept only soups.The nurse should order which one of the following from the diet kitchen?

The Orthodox Jewish patient has died at 3 AM on a Wednesday and no family member was present.Before the family arrives,the culturally competent nurse should:

The nursing assistant reports to the nurse,"That Hindu guy in room 4 doesn't respond,but he is breathing and his skin is warm and dry." The culturally sensitive nurse recognizes this event as a probable:

The Asian theory of hot and cold as a source of illness is based on the imbalance of the four ____________________.

After a Jewish woman has given birth and returns to her room,the husband arrives with a camera.The culturally sensitive nurse would say:

At the request of the family,the instructor makes an assignment change for a black male student who had been assigned to take care of a postpartum Muslim woman.The culturally competent nurse is aware that the request by the family was made because:

A nurse,who is leading a discussion with a group of residents of a Jewish long-term care facility to discuss dietary laws and other religious practices,anticipates that the most prominent need of these patients would be: