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Efficacious
Cultural Health Practices |
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| Cultural care that may be blended or is consistent with scientific care and produces the intended result. (TN p. 130) |
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| Efficacious, neutral, dysfunctional, uncertain. (TN p130) |
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| Neutral Cultural Health Practices |
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| Have no affect on health status. (TN p.131) |
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| Dysfunctional Cultural Health Practices |
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| Harmful. (TN p.131) [example: excessive use of flour and sugar] |
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| Uncertain Cultural Health Practices |
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| Have unknown effects. [swaddling a baby] (TN p131) |
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| Complex but definitely patterned principles which give order and direction to the ever-flowing stream of human acts and thoughts as they relate to the solution of common human problems. (TN p132) |
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| method by which persons from a particular cultural groups divide time. [past, present, future] (TN p132) |
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| refers to "doing" -oriented culture [values accomplishments] or a "being" -oriented culture [values inherent existence]. (TN p132) |
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Lineal Mode: goals/welfare of group come first
Individualistic Mode: each is responsible/accountable for own behaviors and accomplishments
Collateral Mode: welfare of siblings and peers come first (TN p132) |
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Term
Culture Care
Preservation/maintenance. |
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Ensures that nursing care respects client's culture.
NT p426
-retain or preserve relevant care values so that they can maintain their well-being, recover from illness, or face handicaps/death |
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Culture Care
Accommodation/negotiation |
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accommodating clients to allow them to them to continue practicing their beliefs [example: negotiating with admin to get client a private room] (NT p426)
-involves actions or decisions that help people in culture to adapt to others for beneficial health outcome |
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Culture Care
Re-patterning/reconstructing |
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changing treatment from previous culture specific care to one scientific based and approved by client (NT p422)
-change or modify their health care patterns to provide a life way more beneficial/healthier while still respecting cultural patterns/beliefs |
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-one's way is best way
-own values/beliefs are superior |
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| groups whose members share common social and cultural heritage passed on to each successive generation. |
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-past facts, events, institutions, experiences primarily people centered
-describes, explains, interprets human life ways within a particular cultural context
-over short and long periods of time |
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| person who crosses two cultures, lifestyles, and sets of values |
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| individual who crosses two racial and cultural groups |
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| may consist of particular racial, religious, or occupational group that constitutes less than a numerical majority of the population. |
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| learned, shared transmitted values, beliefs, norms and life ways of a group that guides thinking, decisions, and actions in patterned ways |
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| belief that human difference stem from differences in race and that one's race is superior to another |
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| extent to which a member of a particular culture has adopted the patterned life ways of another group |
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| opinion or judgment, usually unfavorable, formed beforehand with no basis except personal feelings |
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| Traditional Nuclear Family |
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Definition
| Married couple with birth or adopted children |
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| Married couple with no children |
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| multigenerational, includes: aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, brothers, sisters, and in-laws. |
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| Grandparents taking care of grandchildren |
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| Unmarried couple, with or without children |
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| two generations, mother OR father and children by birth or adoption |
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| Reconstituted/Blended Family |
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| -"put together parts" of previously existing families with the intention of forming a new nuclear family. (married) |
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| an individual's perception of being sick. (TN p130) |
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| balance between the individual and the environment. TN p 129 |
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| Giger and Davidhizar's Transcultural Assessment Model |
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1. Transcultural nursing and culturally diverse nursing
2. culturally competent care
3. culturally unique individuals
4. culturally sensitive environments
5. health and health status based on culturally specific illness and wellness behaviors
TN p 5 |
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| culturally competent practice that is client centered and research focused (TN. p5) |
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| Culturally Unique Individual |
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Definition
-Client's cultural and racial i.d.
-place of birth
-time in country |
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Components of
Verbal Communication |
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Definition
-Vocabulary
-Names
-Grammatical Structure
-Voice qualities
-Rhythm
-Speed
-Pronunciation
-Silence |
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-Means by which culture is transmitted and preserved
-Language spoken, voice quality, pronounciation, use of silence, use on nonverbal, use of space, |
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Components of
Nonverbal Communication |
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-Touch
-Facial Expression
-Eye Movement
-Body Posture |
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Definition
| -promotes friendship, well-being and pleasure |
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-Degree of comfort observed
-proximity to others
-body movement
-perception of space |
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-Create bond
-decrease anxiety
-build relationships
-problem solving and learning
-provide motivation |
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-dialect
-Style
-Volume
-Touch
-Context of Speech |
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