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Cultural
Lpn fall 2008
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acculturation | Alternating cultural values or behaviors as a way to adapt to another culture. |
| Agnostic | Individual who believes that the existence of God cannot be proved or disproved. |
| Atheist | Individual who does not believe in God or any other deity. |
| 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. |
| Cultural Assimilation | Process whereby individuals from a minority group are absorbed by the dominant culture & take on the characteristics of the dominant culture. |
| Cultural Diverisity | differences among people that result from racial ethnic & cultural variables. |
| Dominant culture | Group whose values prevail within a society. |
| Ethnocentrism | Assumption of cultural superiority & an inability to accept other culturals’ ways of organizing reality. |
| 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. |
| Minority | Term used when referring to groups of people who differ from the majority in terms of cultural characteristics. |
| 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. |
| Oppression | Condition wherein the rules, modes & ideals of one group are imposed on another group. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Spiritual Care | Recongnition of spiritual needs & the assistance given toward meeting spiritual needs. |
| 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. |
| Spiritual Need | Individual’s desire to find meaning & purpose in life, pain, & death. |
| Sterotyping | Beliefs that all people within the same racial, ethnic or culture group act alike & share the same beliefs & attitudes. |
| Transculutral Nursing | The ability to provide care within the context of another’s culture & beliefs. |
| Ying & Yang | Opposing forces that, when in balance, yield health. |
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