As a nurse manager,you notice that Maria,a Hispanic nurse aide,is visibly upset.When you ask her if something is wrong,she becomes tearful and says,"Why is it that when John and I work together in giving patients care,he jokes about my being "a little fat Mexican"? The nurse manager's best response is,"Do you think he:

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Prejudices "enable us to make sense of the situations in which we find ourselves,yet they also constrain understanding and limit the capacity to come to new or different ways of understanding.It is this contradiction that makes prejudice paradoxical." (Spence,2004,p.163).Prejudices enable us to predict behaviors and make sense of situations but constrain our understanding and development of new insights.

As a Nurse Manager,you Notice That Maria,a Hispanic Nurse Aide,is