Transcultural Module 8.03: Ethical Guidelines and Considerations in Transcultural Nursing Care

The role of the nurse is to identify potentially ethics-related situations, to work with others to address those issues, and to provide holistic support for patients, families, and their communities and colleagues. Ethnocentrism is one example of a problem nurses encounter related to this. What does ethnocentrism mean?

The belief that one's own culture is superior to all others.

Which of the following is an appropriate ethics resource for nurses?

ANA Code of Ethics

What can you do as a nurse to promote ethical provision of transcultural care in your own practice? Select all that apply.

Advocate for patients and their families, Cultivate cross-cultural understanding, Develop a moral framework

Challenges for transcultural nursing care include:

All of the above

Codes of ethics are primarily tools for health care administrators to guide their interactions with health care staff.

FALSE

In order to cultivate cross-cultural understanding, which of these do nurses need to understand? Select all that apply.

How the cultural background of the nurse influences the way in which care is delivered, What cultural groups do to maintain wellness, How healers cure and care for members of cultural groups, How cultural groups define health and illness, How cultural groups understand life processes, What cultural groups believe to be the causes of illness

What should nurses do to promote the ethical provision of transcultural care?

All of the above