Cultural Imposition
The belief in one's own superiority, or ethnocentrism, may lead to cultural imposition. Cultural imposition is the act of imposing one's cultural beliefs, values, and practices on individuals from another culture. Nurses impose their values on clients when they forcefully promote biomedical traditions while
ignoring the clients' value of non-Western treatments such as ' acupuncture, herbal therapy, or spiritualistic rituals. A goal for nurses is to develop an approach of cultural relativism in which they recognize that clients have different approaches to health care, and that each culture should be judged on its own merit and not on the nurse's personal beliefs