refers to the learned shared, and transmitted knowledge of values, beliefs, and lifeways of a particular group
What is culture?
100
refers to classifying or placing people into a narrow, fixed view with rigid, or inflexible. “boxlike” characteristics
What is stereotyping?
100
refers to preconceived ideas, beliefs, or opinions about an individual, group or culture that limit a full and accurate understanding of the individual, culture, gender, event, or situation.
What is prejudice?
100
Giger and Davidhizar have delineated these six cultural phenomena that need to be observed when performing a cultural assessment
What is communication, space, social organization, time, environmental control, and biological variations?
100
refers to the variations and differences among and between cultural groups resulting from difference in lifeways, language, values, norms and other cultural aspects.
What is cultural diversity?
200
refers to subgroups that deviate in certain ways from a dominant culture in values, beliefs, norms, moral codes and ways of living with some distinctive features that characterize their unique lifeways
What is a subculture?
200
refers to overt or covert ways of limiting opportunities, choices, or life experiences of others based on feelings or on racial biases.
What is discrimination?
200
refer to the powerful internal and external directive forces that give meaning and order to the thinking decisions and actions of an individual or group
What are cultural values?
200
refers to the tendency of an individual or group to impose their beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior on another culture for varied reasons
What is cultural imposition?
200
emphasizes health promotion and harmony of the mind-body, and spirit. Illness develops when a person fails to act in harmony with nature, causing vital elements within the body to become imbalanced
What is a holistic belief system?
300
refers to an individual who is disoriented or unable to respond appropriately to another person or situation because the lifeways are so strange and unfamiliar. It leaves one feeling helpless, hopeless and confused
What is culture shock?
300
refers to a perspective and reality that there are many different cultures and subcultures in the world that need to be recognized, valued, and understood for their differences and similarities
What is multiculturism?
300
encourages movement from content knowledge to relational processes. This requires listening and abandonment of social comfort to understand meaning from cultural interactions. Learning in relationships is facilitated by coming from a place of “not knowing”
What is cultural attunement?
300
refers to suffering, discomfort, or being greatly offended by an individual or group who shows a great lack of sensitivity toward another’s cultural experience.
What is cultural pain?
300
refers to biological and physical expressions in different physical environments or contexts related to care, health, illness, and disabilities. Humans are born and live within biophysical environments that influence their health and illness factors.
What is bioculturalism?
400
refers to the belief that one’s own ways are the best, most superior, or preferred way to act, believe, or behave
What is ethnocentrism?
400
refers to a firm position or stance that one’s values and beliefs must govern the situation or decision
What is cultural bias?
400
refers to the belief that one’s universe is largely constituted, centered upon and functions from a one-culture perspective that reflects excessive ethnocentrism.
What is monoculturalism?
400
refers to specific care, health, illness, and disease conditions that are particular, quite unique, and usually specific to a designated culture or geographical area.
What is cultural bound?
400
refer to the commonalities among human beings or humanity that reveal the similarities or dominant features of humans
What is cultural universals?
500
refers to racial and often skin-color identity of particular groups related to specific and obvious features based on national origins
What is ethnicity
500
A health care provider who fails to culturally assess a client from the same culture because they assume there are no cultural differences is guilty of
What is cultural blind spotting?
500
A culturally competent practice field that is client centered and research focused.
What is transcultural nursing?
500
The motivation of health care providers to “want to engage in the process of cultural competence”
What is cultural desire?
500
implies that professional health care provider understands and attends to the total context of the patient’s situation which is a complex combination of knowledge, attitudes, and skills