A new mother on the OB unit refuses to allow her newborn to wear disposable diapers. She insists on applying cloth diapers without safety pins, because this is how her culture applies diapers. During break, the nurse discusses the patient's strange diapering technique compared with the excellent American method of diapering. Besides violating confidentiality, the nurse is displaying

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Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's way of doing things is better than the ways of people of different cultures. Stereotyping is making false assumptions about others based on inaccurate generalizations. Discussing the patient's diapering technique during break is unethical. It is unlikely that there is a policy on diapering.

A New Mother on the OB Unit Refuses to Allow