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| A shared beliefs values and practices that guide a groups members in patterned ways of thinking and acting. |
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| Is more related to economic and social standing. |
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| What is the purpose of categorizing individuals according to racial and ethnic descriptions? |
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| To help the government understand the needs of its citizens. |
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| The way worldview, beliefs values practices and transmitted to members by parents. |
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| Refers to people who have inhabited a country for thousands of years and includes such groups as New Zealand Maoris, Australian aborigines, American Natives, and native Hawaiians. |
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Ones identify is found in ones individuality.. Body and Mind are seen as two separate entities.
Disease has a cause and treatment is aimed at the cause. |
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Family is seen as the basis for one's identity. Family interdependence and group decision making are the norm.
Body mind and spirit are seen as a single entity.
Born into fate, duty to comply.
Disease is caused by fluctuations in opposing forces. |
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| The universal tendency of humans to think their way of thinking and behaving is the only correct and natural way. |
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| What are some things that can lead to reluctance to seek help? |
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| Psychological distress is experienced as physical problems |
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| Refers to people who have inhabited or lived in a land for thousands of years |
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| Why should interpreters not be family and friends? |
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| The stigma of mental illness may prevent the openness needed during the encounter. |
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| What is a common reason for a misdiagnosis? |
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| Culturally inappropriate psychometric instruments |
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| What is the Cultural Formulation Interview? |
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A 14 question inventory that helps clinicians plan for care based on orientation, values, and assumption that originate from particular cultures.
It takes into consideration the meaning of the illness for the patient, the role of the family and others as support, the patients attempts to cope with previous illness and expectations of current care. |
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| Mental illness associated with moral weakness. |
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| What are cultural bound syndromes? |
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| Sets of signs and symptoms that are common in a limited number of cultures, but virtually not existent in most other cultural groups. |
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| What are the cultural bound syndromes? |
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| Ataque de nervious, Ghost sickness, Hwa-byung, Jin possession, Neurasthenisa, Susto, and wind illness |
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| Focuses on how genes affect individual responses to medicines. |
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| When there is a cultural mismatch between the clinician and the patient, misdiagnosis and culturally inappropriate treatments frequently result in? |
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| Genes carry recipes for making specific protein molecules thus: |
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| :medications interact with thousand of proteins, and the smallest difference in the quantities or composition of these molecules can make a big difference in how they work. |
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| CYP enzymes metabolize most? |
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| Antidepressants and antipsychotics |
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| People who live in poverty are: |
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Two to three times more likely to develop mental illness than those who live above the poverty line. |
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| What happens when medications are metabolized to slowly? |
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| Serum levels become to high and the risk of intolerable side effects increase. |
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| Nurses adjust their practices to meet their patients cultural beliefs needs practices and preferences. |
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| Five constructs that promote the processed and journey of cultural competence |
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Cultural awareness/ sensitivity Cultural knowledge
Cultural encounters
Cultural skill
Cultural desire |
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| A special kind of immigrant that has left his or her homeland to escape intolerable conditions and would have preferred to stay in the culture if that had been possible. |
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| Persons who are poor are subject to daily struggle for survival |
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| Which this takes a toll on mental health. |
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Ability to perform a cultural assessment in a sensitive way
Use professional medical interpreter to ensure meaningful communication, use culturally sensitive assessment tools. |
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| Mental Health and illness are? |
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| Biological, psychological, social, spiritual, and a cultural processes |
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| That nurses adjust their practice to meet their patients cultural beliefs, practices, needs and preferences. Including cultural sensitivity and awareness. |
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| A culturally aware nurse recognizes that three cultures are intersecting during any encounter with a patient: |
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| the culture of the patient, the culture of the nurse, and the culture of the setting |
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| Professional Knowledge can be categorized to the patients norms into three different groups: |
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1. Those that facilitate the patients health and recovery, form the western medical perspective.
2. Those that are neither helpful nor harmful, from the western medical perspective
3. Those that are harmful to the patients health and wellbeing from the Western Medical perspective |
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| How do nurses exhibit cultural desire? |
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| patients, consideration, empathy, giving the impression that they are willing to learn from the patient |
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