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Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher

Edition 9ISBN: 978-0323086783
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Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher

Edition 9ISBN: 978-0323086783
Exercise 3
A hospitalized Native American patient tells the nurse that later in the day a medicine man from his tribe is coming to perform a healing ceremony to return his world to balance.What should the nurse recognize about this situation?
A) The patient does not adhere to an organized, formal religion.
B) The patient's spiritual needs may be met by traditional rituals.
C) The patient may be putting his health in jeopardy by relying on rituals.
D) Native American medicine cannot alter the progression of the patient's physical illness.
Explanation
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