Assignment task: An 80 year old elderly patient has been admitted to the hospital due to COPD. She lives alone, and recently lost her son and brother, and has no other family to help her.
1. Cultural care.
A. Identify cultural influences that affected the nursing care of this client.
B. Describe how you incorporated your knowledge of these cultural influences into the care given to this client.
C. Identify your goals for therapeutic communication with this client.