When a nurse gives care with respect to each person as an individual.
A fixed concept of how all members of an ethnic group act or think.
What is an ethnic stereotype?
The nurse integrates an understanding into all aspects of nursing care and gives culturally appropriate care.
What is transcultural nursing?
When a person believes that their cultural beliefs and practices are best.
What is ethnocentrism?
Popular belief in the U.S. that this the best and only way to treat disease.
A set of learned values, beliefs, customs, and practices that are shared by a group and passed through the generations.
What is culture?
Shares many characteristics with primary culture but has different behaviors that differentiate it from the rest of the group. (A person in the U.S. from New York vs a person from Louisiana)
What is a subculture?
A generalized expectation about forms of behavior, an individual, or a group.
What is a stereotype?
A group of people who share biologic physical characteristics.
What is race?
A group of people who share a common social and cultural heritage based on shared traditions, national origin, and physical and biologic characteristics.
What is ethnicity?
The awareness of one's own cultural beliefs and practices and their relation to those of others. The nurse develops this to provide the best care.
What is cultural competence?
Health belief system commonly referred to as "third-world" beliefs and practices.
What is folk health belief systsm?
Focuses on restoring balance with physical, social, and metaphysical worlds.
What is holistic health belief system?
What is a physician?
Will benefit from general spiritual care interventions.
What is everyone?
Religion that believes undergarments should be removed in emergency situations only.
What is Latter-Day Saints/Mormon?
This religion doesn't believe in Jesus or the New Testament.
What is Jewish?
This religion observes modesty that requires being covered from head to toe.
What is Islam/Muslim?
This religion believes that pain and suffering is the result of things done in their past.
What is Buddhism?
A person from Tibet would pray to this enlightened one.
What is Buddha? (Buddhism started in India and spread to China. Tibet is in the western part of mainland China.)
This religion observes Ash Wednesday and Lent.
What is Catholicism?
This religion observes Sabbath from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday.
What is Seventh-Day Adventist?
Their religious beliefs include - Abortion is not allowed unless the mother's life is in danger and allow only natural methods of birth control.
What are Mormons/Latter Day Saints?
Catholicism, Protestantism, and Eastern Orthodoxy
What are the major divisions of Christianity?
"Older people have communication deficits" is an example of this
What is stereotyping?