Which of the following nurses is providing culturally competent care to the care recipient?

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Culturally competent care is delivered with knowledge of and sensitivity to cultural factors influencing health behavior.Complex cultural patterns transmitted from former generations contribute to individuals' health behavior.Culturally competent care respects the underlying personal and cultural reality of individuals.Given that one may never be fully competent in cultures other than their own culture, the term cultural attunement may be more descriptive of the aim.Culturally competent care is not about the nurse's ethics or culture.It is about the cultural beliefs of the care recipient.Moreover, while nurses are exempt from assisting in a procedure which violates their ethics, they are not permitted to refuse care to individual care recipients who have had procedures which violate the nurse's ethics.The nurse depicted in choice A is clearly out of line.Also, it is not always possible to assign a staff who is from the same culture as the care recipient and doing so would not guarantee of culturally competent care, in any event.The aide from a given culture could conceivably reject that culture.The nurse who honors a care recipient's request to allow a visit from the tribal medicine man is practicing culturally competent care.

Which of the Following Nurses Is Providing Culturally Competent Care