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Lpn fall 2008

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Acculturation   Alternating cultural values or behaviors as a way to adapt to another culture.  
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Agnostic   Individual who believes that the existence of God cannot be proved or disproved.  
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Atheist   Individual who does not believe in God or any other deity.  
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Culture   Values, beliefs, practices of a particular group. All the socially learned behaviors, values, beliefs & as a population’s way of thinking, that guide its members’ view of themselves & the world.  
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Cultural Assimilation   Process whereby individuals from a minority group are absorbed by the dominant culture & take on the characteristics of the dominant culture.  
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Cultural Diverisity   differences among people that result from racial ethnic & cultural variables.  
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Dominant culture   Group whose values prevail within a society.  
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Ethnocentrism   Assumption of cultural superiority & an inability to accept other culturals’ ways of organizing reality.  
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Ethnicity   A bond or kinship that a person feels with his or her county of birth or place of ancestral origin. Cultural group’s perception if itself or a group identity. Concept of people identifying with one another based on a shared heritage.  
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Minority   Term used when referring to groups of people who differ from the majority in terms of cultural characteristics.  
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Minority Group   Group of people that constitute less than a numerical majority of the population & who, b/c of their cultural, racial, ethnic, religious or other characteristics, are often labeled & treated differently from others in the society.  
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Oppression   Condition wherein the rules, modes & ideals of one group are imposed on another group.  
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Race   Term used to categorize people with genetically shared physical characteristics. A divisions of mankind possessing traits that are transmitted by descent & sufficient to identify it as a distinct human type.  
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Religious Support System   Group of ministers, priests, rabbis, nuns, or lay persons who are able to meet pt’s spiritual needs in the health care setting.  
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Spiritual Care   Recongnition of spiritual needs & the assistance given toward meeting spiritual needs.  
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Spirituality   A pt’s belief about life, health, illness, death & one’s relationship to universe; involves the essence of a person’s being & his/her beliefs about the meaning of life & the purpose for living.  
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Spiritual Need   Individual’s desire to find meaning & purpose in life, pain, & death.  
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Sterotyping   Beliefs that all people within the same racial, ethnic or culture group act alike & share the same beliefs & attitudes.  
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Transculutral Nursing   The ability to provide care within the context of another’s culture & beliefs.  
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Ying & Yang   Opposing forces that, when in balance, yield health.  
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