Ways that a nurse can be culturally sensitive when caring for refugees

Identify and discuss 5 ways that a nurse can be culturally sensitive when caring for refugees? For example, when assessing, teaching, questioning or evaluating their health? 

  1.  When having to communicate through an interpreter, what are some thing s that the nurse needs to do or keep in mind? Why is it not a good idea to use family for interpreting during medical visits? 
  2.  What are some of the different ways that different cultures look at mental health or mental health disorders? How can culture affect the patients mental health?