The nurse is caring for an Indigenous patient who has had recent surgery.In the patient's culture,it is a sign of weakness to complain of pain.In the nurse's culture,people who are having pain ask for pain medicine.The nurse has assumed that the patient has not been having pain and does not need medication because he has not complained of pain.What is the nurse doing?

A) Utilizing cultural imposition by not asking the patient about his pain.
B) Striving to provide culturally congruent care by allowing the patient to suffer.
C) Operating from an emic world view of the patient's cultural beliefs.
D) Practising discrimination by not giving the patient pain medicine.

Health care practitioners who have cultural ignorance or cultural blindness about differences generally resort to cultural imposition and use their own values and lifestyles as the absolute guide in dealing with patients and interpreting their behaviours.Culturally competent care is the care provided by the nurse who attempts to bridge cultural gaps in caring,work with cultural differences,and enable patients and families to achieve meaningful and supportive caring.The nurse in this case has not been able to do this.Any intercultural encounter consists of an inside or native perspective (emic world view)and an outsider's perspective (etic world view).The nurse is obviously utilizing an etic world view.The nurse did not purposefully ignore the patient's need.