Exam 2: Values, Beliefs, and Caring

The nurse is discussing the use of a values clarification tool with a patient. The patient asks, "What is the goal of the values clarification tool?" Which is the best response by the nurse?

Collaborating effectively with patients to find treatment methods that are congruent with the patients' belief systems and that promote healthy outcomes is an approach that requires the nurse to include which activity?

A values system is a set of somewhat consistent values and measures that are organized hierarchically into a belief system on a continuum of relative importance. The nurse knows that a value system is also identified by which concept?

A nurse working in a dermatology clinic observes that a patient of Mexican-American descent typically arrives 10 to 15 minutes late to every appointment. Based on an understanding of first-order beliefs, what characteristics can the nurse associate with this level of beliefs?