Assessment of a Patient Nursing Practice Question
The nurse is caring for a postoperative client with spiritual and culturally based eating and food requirements. Which interventions demonstrate the nurse's spiritual and cultural consideration of the client? Select all that apply.
Correct Answer: C,D,E
Rationale: Spiritual and cultural consideration reflects attempts to maintain familiar customs to achieve the same healthy responses expected of our Western culture customs. Gaining knowledge of the customs and their importance to the client will be the basis for an understanding that allows for flexibility and compromise when necessary. Including the family in the discussion will assist with the process as will discussing the needs the client has at this particular time in order to formulate a plan to meet the needs while maintaining cultural customs. Encouraging new foods in place of the usual foods may be viewed as being insensitive and showing a lack of concern. Substitution is not always necessary.