Mrs. Lee tells the nurse who asks why she ate so little of the food on her tray that her condition requires "hot" foods, so she ate only the "hot" foods on the tray. The nurse notices that several items the patient left on the tray were served hot, and several of the foods the patient ate were served cold. The nurse should

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For this patient, "hot" and "cold" do not refer to the temperature at which food is served but rather to culturally determined properties of the food. Asking for a list of foods Mrs. Lee believes would help her condition is the most helpful action for the nurse to take. The other options do not demonstrate understanding the culturally diverse meanings of "hot" and "cold."

Mrs Lee Tells the Nurse Who Asks Why She Ate