Question | Answer |
what a group of people have in common, but it changes over time | culture |
identifies with 2 cultures and maintains the values and lifestyles of each | bicultural |
refers to many cultures and is used to describe groups rather than individuals | multicultural |
tendency to think your own group is superior | ethnocentrism |
group with the most authority, not always the largest | dominant culture |
groups within the larger culture that have some characteristics dif. from the dominant culture | subcultures |
share race, religion, or ethnic heritage, but have fewer members than the majority group | minority group |
members share a common social and cujltural heritage that is passed down from generation to generation | ethnicity |
group that shares some characteristics in common that are not shared or understood by outsiders | ethnic group |
people who originally came from any spanish-speaking country | Hispanic Americans |
refers to only people from Latin America (Central or South America) | Latino |
the grouping of peoople based on biological similarities | race |
an ordered system of beliefs regarding the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. the beliefs r/t the worship of a God or gods | religion |
the process of learning to become a member of a society or group | socialization |
the learning process when immigrants assume the characteristics of the culture the moved to, accepting both their own and new culture | acculturation |
new members gradually learn and take on the dominant culture's essential values, beliefs, and behaviors, this process is complete when the newcomer is fully emerged into the dominant cultural group | cultural assimilation |
principle or standard that has meaning or worth to an individual | personal value |
something someone accepts as true | belief |
a set of behaviors that one follows | practice |
values, beliefs, and practices that people from all cultures share | culture universals |
values, beliefs, and practices that are special or unique to a culture | culture specifics |
the most difficult cultural obstacle to providing care, includes verbal and nonverbal language | communication |
behavior and attitude that people exhibit about the area around them they have claimed | territoriality |
varies among cultures, a person's comfort level is related to this | space |
a cultural specific that influences healthcare meaning the person is present or future oriented | time orientation |
a cultural specific that influences health r/t the family unit and the wider organizations with which the individual or family identifies, provides clues as to how clients will act during life events | social organization |
a person's perception of his ability to plan activities that control nature or direct environmental factors | environmental control |
influences the person's perception of wellness and illness and the knowledge of options for healthcare | education |
determines what healthcare is acceptable for an individual | religion and philosophy |
consists of folk medicine and traditional healing methods, may also include over the counter and self-treatment remedies | indigenous health care system |
run by a set of professional healthcare providers who have been formally educated & trained | professional healthcare system |
dominates N. American healthcare by combining western biomedical beliefs with traditional N. American values of self-reliance, individualism, and aggressive action | biomedical healthcare system |
used instead of the conventional healthcare practices, reliability not validated through clinical testing the US | alternative healthcare |
healthcare system that focuses on the need for harmony and balance w/in of the body w/ nature | holistic |
the learned and transmitted lifeways, values, symbols, aptterns, and normative practices of members of the nursing profession that are not the same as mainstream culture | culture of nursing |
the beliefs and practices that the members of a cultural group follow when they are ill, used by all cultures, treatments have been passed down by oral tradition | folk medicine |
the use of rigorously tested therapies to complement those of convetional medicine | complementary medicine |
the traditional healthcare system of India | ayurveda |
an appreciation of the external signs of diversity | cultural awareness |
has to do with personal attitudes and abeing careful no to say or do something that might be offensive to someone from a dif. culture | cultural sensitivity |
don’t realize that we are incompetent yet | Unconsciously incompetent |
We need to learn more about certain cultures | Consciously incompetent |
I’m saying the right things and doing the right things but it takes effort | Consciously competent |
I’m naturally competent | Unconsciously competent |
being able to use knowledge and sensitivity in practice | cultural competence |
the degree to which a person's lifestyle reflects his traditional culture/cultural origins | heritage consistency |
a NIC intervention that is the deliberate use of culturally competent strategies to bridge or mediate between the patient's culture and the biomedical heatlh care system | Culture Brokerage |
this acknowledges the gap b/tw the nurse's and client's perspectives, must be used when folk or traditional practices might be harmful to the patient | negotiation |
a specially trained person to provide meaning behind words | interpreter |
person who simply restates the words from one language to another | translator |