Nursing culture
Minority group takes on values of dominant culture
A traditional family, two parents and their children.
What is a nuclear family?
A state of confusion of sudden onset which is temporary.
What is delirium?
A general term used to refer to how someone thinks about, evaluates or perceives themselves.
What is self-concept?
A condition in which the human system responds to changes in its normal state.
What is stress?
The ability to provide care to patients with diverse values, beliefs and behaviors, including the tailoring of health care delivery to meet patients' social, cultural and linguistic needs.
What is cultural competence?
Family including grandparents, aunts/uncles, cousins.
What is extended family?
An organic degenerative neurologic disorder that progressively affects brain function.
What is dementia?
A condition where the person doesn’t feel their thoughts are their own, but they are an outside observer.
What is depersonalization?
Anything perceived as challenging, threatening, or demanding that triggers a stress reaction.
What is a stressor?
When one assumes that all members of a culture, ethnic group, or race act alike.
What is stereotyping?
Two parents and their unrelated children from previous relationships.
What is a blended family?
The most common form of dementia.
What is Alzheimer's dementia?
A condition where a person can’t quite figure out who they are.
What is identity diffusion?
The term used for short-term stress that promotes positive emotional, intellectual, and physiologic adaptation and development.
What is eustress?
The feeling of disorientation experienced by someone who is suddenly subjected to an unfamiliar culture, way of life, or set of attitudes.
What is culture shock?
A family with one adult raising children.
What is a single-parent family?
Theory of aging related to unpaired, high-energy electrons formed during cellular metabolism which disrupt cell membranes, DNA, and protein synthesis.
What is free radical?
Identified 4 bases of self-esteem as significance, competence, virtue, and power.
Who is Coopersmith?
A vague, uneasy feeling of discomfort or dead, the source of which is often unknown or nonspecific.
What is anxiety?
Nursing care focused on cultural care values, beliefs and practices of individuals or groups of similar or different cultures.
What is transcultural nursing?
Adult children who move back in with their parents.
What is a boomerang family?
Theory of aging related to a chemical reaction that damages DNA and cell death increases as a person ages leading to decrease in elasticity and flexibility.
What is cross-linkage?
Developmental stage where the child can recognize themselves in mirrors and in pictures at around 18 months of age.
What is self-recognition?
A feeling of dread in response to a known threat.
What is fear?