Question | Answer |
permissive does not attempt to control the team and offers little or no direction | Laissez-faire leadership |
authoritarian tightly controls the members of the team | Autocratic leadership |
consults with staff members and seeks staff participation in decision making | Democratic leadership |
ability to teach, assertive, calm, flexible, and strong character | attributes that make a good leader |
only state facts not opinions when documenting | poor performance |
UAP | unlicensed assistive perosnnel |
v/s, bed making, applying cold packs, oral hygiene, bathing, feed pt, turning, and recording I&O's | task to be delegated to UAP's |
a critical task in all health care settings and must be considered a priority to be done ASAP | documentation |
should be clarified directly with the MD who wrote them | unclear orders |
when must all orders be updated | when the patient returns from surgery |
management of areas to decrease risk of patient incidents, occurrence of lawsuits, or increased damage awards by juries | Risk management |
consist of values, beliefs, and practices shared by the majority within a group of people | Culture |
ideas and perceptions seen as good and useful | Values |
smaller groups within the culture whose members have similar goals and views | Subcultures |
biologic way to categorize people | Race |
shared identity related to social and cultural heritage | Ethnicity |
unequal burdens of disease morbidity and mortality rates experienced by racial and ethnic groups | health disparities |
holding ones own way of life as superior to others | Ethnocentrism |
beliefs and attitudes associating negative permanent characteristics to people who are perceived as different from oneself | Biases and prejudice |
occurs when a person acts prejudice | Discrimination |
results in a tendency to fit every person into a particular pattern without further assessment | Sterotyping |
what a person feels when his culture is ignored by health care providers | Cultural pain |
personal, interpersonal, and cultural reaction to disease | Illness |
malfunctioning or maladaption of biological or psychological processes | Disease |
illnesses restricted to a particular culture or group because of its psychological characteristics | cultural-bound syndromes |
tanzanian definition of illness caused by disrespect to the family | Baridi |
perspective about phenomena characteristics of a particular group | Worldview |
view from a culture native | Emic worldview |
view from those outside the culture | Etic worldview |
emphasizes the central purpose of nursing | culture care theory |
care that fits personal valued life patterns and meanings generated by the patient, not the nurse | Culturally congruent care |
focused on the comparative study of cultures to understand similarities and differences | transcultural nursing |
process in which a health care professional continually strives to achieve the ability to work effectively with various cultures | Cultural competence |
awareness of one's own background, stereotypes and prejudices | cultural awareness |
obtaining knowledge of other cultures | cultural knowledge |
developing cultural skills such as communication, giving culturally competent care | cultural skills |
engaging in cross-cultural interactions, refining inter-cultural communication skills | cultural encounters |
native american healer | Shaman |
African American healer | "granny midwife, Momma" |
Hispanic healer | Curandero |
Asian Indian healer | herbal treatments |
Chinese and Southeast Asians | herbalist and fortune tellers |