Culture Groups
White, middle class men
What is the dominant culture in the U.S.?
A learned worldview shared by a group and passed on socially that influences values, beliefs, customs, and behaviors and is reflected in the language, dress, food, materials, and social institutions of the group
What is culture?
A social construct used to describe groups of people that share physical characteristics and traits.
What is race?
Being open to other people's identities and recognizing their authority over their own experience.
What is part of cultural humility?
The response to emotional pressure suffered for a prolonged period of time where a person perceives little or no control.
What is chronic stress?
Counteracting the tendency to protect one’s own beliefs and views and therefore shut out new information requires one to do what?
What is feel the stress, then listen then change?
A smaller culture within a dominant culture that has a way of life different in some way from the dominant culture.
What is a subculture?
Time consciousness, valuing individual versus group, valuing conflict vs. harmony and beliefs about conflict.
What are cultural values?
People have cultural norms associated with multiple cultural identities. Apart from race and ethnicity, what are 5 other cultural identities a person likely holds?
What are: age, education, socioeconomic status, geography, sexual orientation, spiritualist, gender identity, religious identity?
The first step to cultural competence is.
What is the willingness to self-examine and take the first step to understanding?
In addition to understanding self and being open to the patient's narrative, a nurse must be aware of this imbalance that may exist.
What is power imbalance?
A culturally defined idea of what is true, right and beautiful?
What is a value?
These groups have fewer resources and political and economic power and may be marginalized.
What is Non-Dominant Culture?
The way a people interpret reality and events, including how they see themselves in relation to the world around them.
What is a world view?
People who collectively and publicly identify themselves as a distinct group based on features such as common origin, language, customs, and traditional beliefs.
What is ethnicity?
Respect, validation and openness
What are the roots to cultural competence?
Chronic stress can trigger a physiologic reaction that is mediated by___________.
What is the prefrontal cortex and amygdala?
The physiologic purpose behind relaxxation approaches (calming breathing, focus, visualization, prayer, yoga) is ___________.
What is stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system?
Poorly educated, ethnic/cultural minority groups, physically disabled, mentally disabled, addictive diseases.
What are marginalized groups?
Intangible, often hidden products created by human interaction that cannot be held or touched but are central to human behavior.
What is non-material culture? Or Underlying Values, Assumptions and Beliefs
Groups that are responsible for transmitting and teaching cultural values to its group members.
What is family, church, school, etc.
The reason you are being given assignments on cultural assessment, spiritual assessment and journaling is to:
What is to assist in self-reflection and gaining of insight.
Health outcome that may be impacted by cultural competence.
What are access to care, safety, satisfaction and engagement with treatment plan?
The response when a person is provided evidence and ignores the evidence and becomes more committed to their original idea.
What is the backfire effect?
Being immersed in a culture may make it difficult to recognize cultural characteristics. For what group might this be more difficult and why?
What is the The Dominant Culture group? This group may have the most difficulty as their underlying beliefs, values and behaviors are prevailing in much of society.
A society in which people don't have to give up their cultural backgrounds and identities in order to be part of the group.
What is a pluralistic society?
A downside of teaching cultural competence and stressing group values, behaviors and norms.
What is stereotyping?
In relation to cultural competence, at the end of this course, students will:
What is be more aware of one's own cultural identities and how they are similar or different from others.
When the amygdala interprets images, words, sounds to be threatening what happens?
What is communication with the hypothalamus and triggering of the sympathetic nervous system response?
When one knowingly or unknowingly enforces cultural views and expectations on patients in an effort to accomplish a desired task.
What is cultural imposition?