A new graduate RN joins your unit. After a few weeks, she complains ab

QUESTION

A new graduate RN joins your unit. After a few weeks, she complains about some of her peers on the unit and compares their practices negatively to what she learned in her nursing program.

She also is vocal about how she has learned so much here that she did not learn in her program. She is best described as:

a. Having cultural sensitivity.
b. Experiencing cultural diversity.
c. Experiencing cultural marginality.
d. Experiencing acculturation.

ANSWER:

ANS: C
The new graduate is caught between two cultures at this point—work and education—and expresses feelings of belonging to neither.