Terms
Health Disparities
Cultural Competence
Cultural awareness, knowledge and skil
Cultural encounter and desire, and misc
100

This type of world view is from the outsiders perspective.

Etic world view

100

Adults 25 and older in 2011, who were foreign born were more likely to not complete this than those who were born within the US.

High school

100

_____-______'s model of cultural competency has 5 interrelated constructs.

Campinha-Bacote's

5 are:

Awareness, knowledge, skill, encounter, and desire

100

Use this method following any patient instruction to confirm that you have explained what a patient needs to know in a manner that the patient understands

Teach-back

100

One goal of this is to communicate in a way that generates a wide variety of responses and to send and receive both verbal and nonverbal communication accurately and appropriately in each culturally different context.

Cultural encounter

200

This is a research and policy model used to study the complexities of people’s lives and experiences. The model looks at how being marginalized affects people’s health and access to care.

Intersectionality

200

Healthy People 2020 defines a this as “a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage”

Health disparity

200

A cultural __________ aims to modify a health care provider’s existing belief about a cultural group and to prevent possible stereotyping.

encounter

200

When using this communication method you frame important messages in ways that make them memorable for your and your patient

Storytelling

200

Being cared for by a nurse of the opposite gender would be an especially important issue for women from which of the following cultures?

1 Afghan 

2 Filipino 

3 Native American 

4 African American  

Afghan

300

The _____ _______ are key quality indicators that help health care institutions improve performance, increase accountability, and reduce costs.

Core Measures

300

________________ places, or keeps, someone in a powerless or an unimportant position within a society or group.

Marginalization

Examples of marginalized groups include people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender; people of color; people who are physically or mentally challenged; and people who are not college educated.

300

This is the motivation of a health care professional to “want to” (and not “have to”) engage in the process of becoming culturally aware, culturally knowledgeable, and culturally skillful in seeking cultural encounters

Cultural desire

300

This domain of culture assesses focus on health care, traditional practices, responsibility for health, self-medication, pain, sick role, barriers

Health care practices

300

The mnemonic LEARN represents what key words that assist in reflecting on each patient encounter?

Listen, explain, acknowledge, recommend and negotiate

400

_________ ________ is the ability to communicate effectively and convey information in a manner that is easily understood by diverse audiences.

Linguistic Competence

400

A patient experiencing this, has limited access to resources, such as health care, housing, education, employment, and legal services. It is a formal and informal system of advantages and disadvantages tied to membership in social groups, reinforced by societal norms, biases, interactions, and beliefs.

Oppression

400

This care is culturally congruent when it fits a person’s life patterns, values, and system of meaning.

Transcultural care

400

When beginning a conversation with a pt using an interpreter you should speak in the _____ ______, and speak directly to patient.

First person

400

Within transcultural nursing, sensitivity to social organization is the recognition of the clients:

Status and expected role in the family

Rationale:

Cultural groups consist of units of social organization delineated by kinship, status hierarchy, and appropriate roles for their members.  

500

_____ ________ is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and the services needed to make appropriate health decisions

Health literacy

500

_____ _________ of health include factors such as age, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, access to nutritious food, transportation resources, religion, sexual orientation, age, level of education. literacy level, disability (physical and cognitive), and geographical location (e.g., access to health care).

Social determinants of health

500

This is a self-motivated developmental process that evolves over a lifetime as individuals engage with others and learn from their experiences

Cultural competence

500

The use of this in communicating with patients makes any information the nurse gives easy to read, understand and use.

Plain language.

500

While going through the process of acculturation a client will be:

Adapting to and adopting a new culture