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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Emotional Intelligence (EI) | Ability to evaluate, perceive, and control emotions |
| Assimilation | Process by which people of diverse backgrounds slowly give up their original cultural language and identity and melt into another, usually larger, group |
| Bias | Prejudice; thinking negatively of others without any or significant justification; generally a combination of stereotyped beliefs and negative attitudes |
| Biculturalism | Being able to negotiate two or more different cultures competently, individual and mainstream |
| Cultural | Of or relating to culture |
| Diversity | Fact or quality of being diverse, different (all of the ways in which human beings are both similar and different) |
| Ethnic | Designating any of the basic groups or divisions of humankind or of a heterogeneous population, as distinguished by customs, characteristics, language, and common history; national origin |
| Religion | Belief in a divine or superhuman power or powers, to be obeyed and worshipped as the creator(s) and ruler(s) of the universe |
| Ethnicity | relates to a person’s distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage |
| overcome linguistic barriers | Hiring additional bilingual and bicultural staff • Providing medical interpreters • Providing translators • Encouraging employees to become bilingual or multilingual |
| Cultural competency | is defined as possessing a set of attitudes, congruent behaviors, and policies that come together in an agency, in a system, or among professionals that enable effective interactions in a cross-cultural or multicultural environment. |
| Communication | Exchange of information, thoughts, or messages; includes interpersonal rapport; also includes the accurate conveyance of information, clear self-expression, and transmission of information and ideas to others. |
| Gerontology | Pertaining to the study of older adults |
| Nonverbal Communication | Exchange of information, thoughts, or messages using methods other than the actual words of speech—for example, tone of voice, speed of speech, facial expressions, and position of the speaker’s extremities and torso (body language) |
| Palpation | Application of light pressure with the fingers |
| Patient Autonomy | Ability and right of patients to make independent decisions regarding their medical care |