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| Acculturation/Assimilation |
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| the blending of attitudes and beliefs; process by which members of a foreign culture learn the values and behaviors of a culture to which they have immigrated |
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| used to describe a person who crosses two cultures, lifestyles, and sets of values |
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| concept that describes the provision of nursing care across cultural boundaries and takes into account the context in which the client lives and the situations in which the client's health problems arise |
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| application of underlying background knowledge that must be possessed to provide a given client with the best possible health care |
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| within the delivered care the nurse understands and attends to the total context of the client's situation and uses a complex combination of knowledge, attitudes, and skills |
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| care that demonstrates basic knowledge of and constructive attitudes towards the health traditions observed among the diverse cultural groups found in the setting |
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| a world view and set of traditions used and transmitted from generation to generation by a particular group, includes related attitudes and institutions |
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| a disorder that occurs in response to transition from one cultural setting to another |
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| the differential treatment of individuals or groups |
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| the fact or state of being different |
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| belonging to a specific group of individuals who share a common social and cultural heritage |
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| beliefs and practices relating to illness prevention and healing that derive from cultural traditions rather than from modern medicine's scientific base |
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| (Estes and Zitzow) the degree to which one's lifestyle reflects his or her respective tribal culture |
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| the observance of the beliefs and practices of one's acculturated belief system |
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| holds that the forces of nature must be maintained in balance or harmony |
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| an individual who mediates spoken communication between people speaking different languages without adding, omitting, or distorting meaning or editorializing |
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| Magico-Religious Health Belief View |
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| a belief system in which people attribute the fate of the world and those in it to the actions of God, the gods, or other supernatural forces for good or evil |
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| one's acculturated belief system; the opposite of traditional |
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| a negative belief or preference that is generalized about a group and that leads to "prejudgment" |
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| classification of people according to shared biologic characteristics and physical features |
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| Scientific Health Belief/Biomedical health belief |
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| based on the belief that life and life processes are controlled by physical and biochemical processes that can be manipulated by humans |
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| assuming that all members of a culture or ethnic group are alike |
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| usually composed of people who have a distinct identity and yet are related to a larger cultural group |
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| observance of the beliefs and practices of one's heritage cultural belief system |
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| a person who converts written material (such as patient education pamphlets) from one language into another |
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