What does it mean when a community health nurse has been labeled as ethnocentric?

Case Study # 2
As a community health nurse, it is imperative to conduct ongoing cultural assessment of one’s own service areas. The Office of Minority Health (2013) recommends that healthcare organizations “conduct regular assessments of community health assets and needs and use the results to plan and implement services that respond to the cultural and linguistic diversity of populations in the service area.” The community health nurses in a medium-size American city have several cultural groups represented in their service area. (Learning Objectives: 2, 5)
a. As an advocate for groups that have been sociopolitically marginalized, what can be done to promote cultural safety for the nurses and the patients?
b. How can the community health nurses in this city practice cultural humility?
c. What does it mean when a community health nurse has been labeled as ethnocentric?


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