In the professional nursing practice, nurses must provide unbiased care, even in situations where the person/s being treated have different backgrounds (language, religion, culture, ethnicity, etc.) than you. The first step in overcoming and minimizing personal biases is to recognize them. In this discussion, you will assess your personal biases. Answer the questions honestly and to the best of your ability, noting that there are no right or wrong answers.

Complete the General Awareness and Attitudes Scale

. The General Awareness and Attitudes Scale is adapted from the Cultural Awareness Scale by Catterson, Cookston, Martinez, & Rew (1998). Answer the question as honestly as possible. There are no right or wrong answers.

The expenditures or output approach to GDP measures it by summing up:

a. Compensation of employees, rents, interest, dividends, undistributed corporate profits, proprietors’ income, indirect business taxes paid, consumption of fixed capital, and net foreign factor income earned in the United States

b. Compensation of employees, rents, interest, dividends, corporate profits, proprietors’ income, and indirect business taxes, and subtracting the consumption of fixed capital

c. The total spending for consumption, investment, net exports, and government purchases

d. The total spending for consumption and government purchases, but subtracting public and private transfer payments