An experienced psychiatric nurse plans to begin work in a community-based medication clinic on Monday.The clinic sees culturally diverse patients.Which action should the nurse take first to prepare for this position?

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An experienced nurse working on a mental health inpatient unit would be familiar with the action and side effects of most commonly prescribed psychotropic medications.However,because culturally diverse patients are seen in the clinic,reviewing cultural differences in patients' responses to these medications is helpful and vital to patient safety.One such difference is the development of extrapyramidal side effects at lower drug doses in Asian patients.The distracters would not be the nurse's initial actions.

An Experienced Psychiatric Nurse Plans to Begin Work in a Community-Based