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| What is the largest and fastest growing population in America? |
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| What is a legal resident? |
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| All persons who are granted lawful, permanent residence. |
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| The conferring, by any means, of citizenship upon a person after birth, |
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| An alient who seeks temporary entry into the US for a specific purpose |
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| An alien, appearing to be inadmissible to inspecting officer, allowed into the US for urgent humanitarian reasons or when the alien's entry has been determined to be for significant public benefit. |
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| Any person who is outside his or her country of nationality who is unable or willing to return to that country because of persecution or well-founded fear of it. |
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| What is an unauthorized resident? |
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| All foreign-born non citizens who are not legal residents. |
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| Results in positive outcomes and satisfaction |
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| Takes into consideration the values, preferences, and expressed needs of the patient. |
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| What is cultural and linguistic competence? |
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| Set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come tighter in a system among professionals that enables work in cross-cultural situations. |
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| What is linguistic competency? |
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| When people with limited english proficiency seek health care in health care settings services cannot be denied to them. Health care providers are required to provide language assistance services to patients in their care such as interpreters and literature in their language. |
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| What is health disparity? |
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| The unusual or disproportionate frequency of a given health problem within a population when compared to others. |
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| A concept that describes professional health care that is culturally sensitive, appropriate, and competent. |
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| What do nurses need to know to provide cultural care? |
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1.) Your own personal heritage
2.) The heritage of the nursing profession
3.) The heritage of the health care system
4.) The heritage of the patient |
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| What is heritage consistency? |
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| Concept that describes the degree to which one's lifestyle reflects his or her respective culture. Traditional VS Modern living. |
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| The thoughts, communications, actions, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups. |
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| What are the basic characteristics of culture? |
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- Learned from birth
- Shared by all members of the same group
- Adapted by specific conditions
- Dynamic |
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| Pertains to a certain social group within the social system that claims to possess variable traits. |
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| How does religion effect health? |
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-Promote health behavior and lifestyle
-Benefits health by offering social support that buffers and affects stress and isolation
-Faith benefits health by leading to thoughts of hope, optimism, and positive expectation. |
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| The process of being raised within a culture and acquiring the characteristics of that group. |
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| The process of adapting to another culture |
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| The process by which a person develops a new cultural identity and comes like the members of a dominant culture. |
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| Dual pattern of identification and often divided loyalty. |
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| The balance of the person, both within one's being and in the outside world, as a complex, interrelated phenomenon. |
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| What is the biomedical view of medicine? |
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| Causation is based on the assumption that all events in life a cause and effect, that the human body fans more or less mechanically. |
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| What is the naturalistic view of medicine? |
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| Forces of nature must be kept in natural balance or harmony. american indians and asians |
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| Chinese belief. Yin = negative female cold foods. Yang = positive male warm foods. |
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| The world is seen as an arena in which supernatural forces dominate. The fate of the world and those who live in it depends on the action of the supernatural forces for good and evil. |
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| Objects that may be worn on a string, chain that protects the wearer from the evil eye/spirit that could be transmitted from one person to another or have supernatural origins. |
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| What is the glass blue eye? |
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| From turkey, Hung in home for protection against evil. |
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| What is the seed with red string? |
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| Placed on crib of baby of mexican herigae |
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| Worn by carribbean people for protection. |
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| What is an american shaman? |
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| American Indian/Alaska healer |
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| What is a powerful hand candle? |
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| Burned for cleansing by a person of mexican heritage. |
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| Folk healer of Iberian, central and south american heritages. |
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| What is shenkui? Who believes it? |
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Marked anxiety or panic symptoms with dizziness, weakness, insomnia, frequent dreams, and complaints of sexual dysfunction. Caused by excessive semen loss.
ASIAN |
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| What is that? Who believes it? |
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Semen-loss syndrom. Hypochondriac concerns about discharge. Urine whitish.
INDIAN |
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Bizarre complaints and behavior because the uterus leaves the pelvis for another part of the body.
GREEK |
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| What is involutional paraphrenia? |
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| Paranoid disorder occurring in midlife |
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Malaise/depression
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Tremor, hallucinations, sense of danger.
INDIANS/ALASKANS |
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Insomnia, depression, loss of appetite, associated with unwanted separation from a loved one.
INDIANS/ALASKANS |
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Food forms ball and clings to stomach or GI tract causing pain or cramping.
Iberian/Central/South American |
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Fitful sleep, crying, dia in kid caused by strangers attention. Sudden onset.
Iberian/Central/South American |
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Anxiety, trembling, phobias from sudden fright.
Iberian/Central/South |
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| What are the steps to cultural competence? |
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- R- Respect that you must know/understand your heritage and your patients.
- E - Examine the patient within the context of his/her cultural HEALTH and ILLNESS practices.
- S - Select questions that are not complex and do not as them rapidly.
- P - Pace questions throughout the exam
- E - Encourage the patient to discuss the meanings of health and illness with you
- C - Check for the patient's understanding/acceptance of recommendations and build on cultural health practices when indicated.
T - Touch the patient within the cultural boundaries of his or her heritage. manners are vital. |
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