Chapter 3
Who is considered a facilitator that empowers patients to choose the best available options to meet personal needs and culture values?
Health-care provider
What organization provides information concerning culturally and linguistically appropriate services?
Office of Minority Health
How do late school age children understand chronic illness?
Little comprehension, although can list symptoms
Which style of parenting includes decisions being made without the input of the children?
Autocratic style
What is a cultural pattern shared by people with the same cultural heritage?
Ethnicity
What can influence patterns of parent-infant interaction and the development expression of infant behavior?
Culture
What are the core aspects of CAM therapy?
Self-care, wellness, and illness prevention; considering the whole physiological personal as well as social, cultural, and spiritual aspects
What is a school age child's typical response to divorce?
Open grieving, feeling rejected, fears of being replaced by absent parent, difficulty concentrating, and fears expressing emotions.
What is a developmental task?
A competency or skill that helps a personal cope with the environment or advance personal development; occurs in sequence and mastery of one is usually requires before mastering the next stage of development.
What is the assumption that all people of one culture behave the same way and believe the same thing?
Cultural stereotyping
What are some essential phenomena present in all cultural groups?
Communication, touch, space, social organization, time, and environmental control
What granted patients in the United States the legal right to full disclosure of medical information to allow individuals to participate in their own care?
Self-Determination Act of 1991
Growth
Who was a family theorist and proposed specific stages of family development?
What is the basic human social system that involves commitment and interaction among its members?
Family
What does the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health do?
Conducts research on the effectives of specific CAM therapies and documents their findings in medical journals.
What is the proper nursing intervention when a patient refuses to eat or take oral medications after giving birth?
Offer hot soup or room-temp water with or without ice, obtain cultural assessment upon admission to the unit, ask questions to enable health-care provider to adapt to plan of care and not assume specific cultural practices are preferred.
What are some challenges of dual-career families?
Childcare, time for children's activities, time for supporting peer interaction, family time, scheduling, travel away from home, lack of energy for home and children, unexpected illness or injury management, increased need for child self-management, and healthy nutrition options.
What effects the family on growth and development of the child?
Size, spacing of siblings, divorce, stepchildren, foster children, chronic illness and use of childcare services.
What is a traditional family called? Consists of husband wife, and children (biological or adopted)
Nuclear family
What is an appropriate approach to determine what a pregnant woman considers normal practice for the birth experience?
2. Is the birth process viewed as dangerous?
3. Is the birth a public or private experience?
4. What time of help is needed/accepted?
5. What is the expected role of the family?
In the U.S., the myriad of culture creates an opportunity for what?
Misunderstandings and misinterpretations of health-care teachings
Explain and discuss illness, terminal development, and behavioral consequences by identifying family strengths, coping styles, and strategies. Implementing a comprehensive plan for care and promoting optimal growth and development.
Federal legislation in 1980 and 1995 promoted what as the goal for all foster care families?
Family reunification
What family is one in which one or both spouses bring children from a previous relationship into a new family unit called?
Blended family