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OB Unit 1 (ch.2)
Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Two or more persons who are joined together by bonds of sharing and emotional closeness and who identify themselves as being part of a family | Family |
| A system of ideas, attitudes, and beliefs about the worth of an entity or concept that consciously or unconsciously bind together the members of the family in a common culture | Family Values |
| The potential or actual ability to change the behavior of other family members | Family Power |
| Homogeneous sets of behaviors that are normatively defined and expected of an occupant of a gieven social position | Family Roles |
| Consists of a husband provider, a wife who stays home, and children | Nuclear Family |
| Now considered the norm in modern society | Dual-Career/Dual-Earner Family |
| Consists of a couple who shares household responsibilities, chores, and expenses with parents, siblings, or other relatives | Extended Family |
| A specific form of an extended family in which two nuclear families of primary or unmarried kin love in close proximity to each other | Extended kin network family |
| Headed by only one parent | Single-parent families |
| A biologic parent with childrne, and a new spouse who may or may not have children | Stepfamilies, remarried families, reconstituted families, or blended families |
| A postdivorced family in which the biologic children are members of two nuclear households, both that of the father and that of the mother | Binuclear Family |
| Involves joint custody | Coparenting |
| Situations in which both parents have equal responsibility and legal rights, regardless of where the children live, by law | Joint Custody |
| A heterosexual couple who may or may not have children and live together outside of marriage | Nonmarital heterosexual cohabitating family |
| Two or more people who share a same-sex orientation live together (with or without children), as well as families consisting of a gay or lesbian single parent rearing a child | Gay and lesbian Families |
| The dynamics or changes that families experience over time | Family Development |
| A collection of data regarding the family's current level of functioning, support systems, sociocultural information, environmental information, type of family, family structure, and needs | Family Assessment |
| A comprehensive assessment of family functioning and other essential family data | The Friedman Family Assessment Tool |
| The beliefs, values, attitudes, and practices that are accepted by a population, a community, or an individual | Culture |
| Culture passed on from generation to generation | Enculturation |
| A social identity that is associated with shared behaviors and patterns | Ethnicity |
| The process by which people adapt to a new cultural norm | acculturation |
| When a group completely changes their cultural identity to become part of the majority culture | Assimilation |
| Spanish term for lay educators | Promotoras |
| Spanish term for godparents | Compadrazgos |
| Spanish term for manliness | Machismo |
| The Mexican American belief that air, especially night air, may enter the body and cuase illness | Mal aire |
| The Southeast Asian belief that the wind is a potentially negative force that can disturb the body's internal harmony when a person is in a vulnerable state, such as during and after childbirth or during surgery | Vata |
| Behaviors or things that are avoided | Taboos |
| Based on the concept of balance between light and dark, heat and cold | Equilibrium model of health |
| Represents the female, passive principle-darkness, cold, and wetness | Yin |
| The masculine, active principle-light, heat, and dryness | Yang |
| The spanish term for a lay midwife, as a healer who gives advice and treats illnesses during pregnancy as well as being in attendance during labor and birth | Partera |
| Indigenous healers that are important in the Mexican American culture | Curandero or curandera |
| The conviction that the values and beliefs of one's own cultural group are the best ones or the only acceptable ones | Ethnocentrism |
| The skills and knowledge necessary to appreciate, understand, and work with individuals from different cultures | Cultural Competence |
| Darkened skin spots on the lower back and buttocks of some babies with dark skin | Mongolian spots |
| The relationship between the individual and other persons and objects in the environment | Space |
| An institutionalized system that shares a commom set of beliefs and practices, others define it more simply as a belief in a transcendent power | Religion |
| A concern with the spirit or soul | Spirituality |
| Doubtful about the existence of a transcendent being | Agnostic |
| The belief that there is no higher power | Athiest |