expressed as language, gestures or objects that people within a culture use to communicate with each other
What is a Symbol?
100
the truths held by a culture's people. They determine and influence how people deal with and view social problems and concerns. Also influence behavior.
What are beliefs?
100
understanding of culture, race, ethnicity of diverse minority groups
What is Cultural Awareness?
100
a specific system of beliefs and worship that is closely integrated with culture, ethnicity, and spirituality
What is Religion?
100
share the same language, and other attributes peculiar to that group such as diet, customs, music and dance, family structures and roles, and religious beliefs or practices.
This would be considered a category.
What is Ethnicity?
200
moral beliefs that are strongly held by members of the culture
What are Mores?
200
most likely to suffer from lactose intolerance; hypertension, and more recently liver and stomach cancer.
What are Asian Americans?
200
A way of viewing patients as belonging to one world with many cultures.
What is Transcultural Nursing?
200
Common diseases affecting this community breast cancer and leukemia
What are European Americans?
300
Socially accepted rules and behaviors that guide an individuals behavior and interactions within the culture.
What are norms?
300
written policies supported and enforced by the government and when you break them they carry a punishment
What are Laws?
300
the customs within the culture that determine how we greet each other, examples are handshakes, kisses, or bowing
What are folkways?
300
She introduced the theory of transcultural nursing in the middle of 1950
What is Madeline Lennginger?
300
the largest ethnic minority and the most rapidly growing ethnic group in the United states.
What are Hispanic Americans?
400
The most common disease affecting this community are diabetes, HTN, obesity, AIDS, alcoholism, and lactose intolerance.
What are Hispanic Americans?
400
belief that one's cultural values and patterns of behaviors are superior.
What is Ethnocentrism?
400
the fourth largest major ethnic group in the US and are comprised of more than 200 tribes.
What are Native Americans?
400
the feelings that determine what is considered good or bad, right or wrong
What are Values?
400
Common diseases affecting this community include hypertension, cancer, strokes, diabetes, and kidney and liver diseases?
What are African Americans?
500
refers to learning and applying another person's cultural standard to each situation.
What is Cultural relativism?
500
means being correct in your language and interaction to avoid offending anyone's beliefs or practices.
What is Cultural sensitivity?
500
a conscious process which means the health care worker must apply knowledge and skills to enhance interaction with clients and this must include cultural sensitivity and cultural awareness.
What is Cultural Competence?
500
language barriers, lack of health insurance, knowledge deficit, reluctance to question health providers, adherence to old cultural practices are all examples of this
What are Cultural barriers to Health Care?
500
Share similar characteristics. i.e. Skin color, hair texture, facial shape, body shape and size.