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Knowledge, values, practices, customs, and beliefs of a group
‘Shared symbols and meanings that people create in the process of social interaction’ and ‘orients people in their ways of feeling, thinking, and being in the world.’ Culture is how people approach the world and holds these properties: dynamic not static, shared not private, and learned not inherited. |
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| Define cross-cultural nursing practice. |
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Any nursing encounter in which the client and nurse are from different cultures
Transcultural nursing is sometimes used as a synonym |
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| What is culturally competent? |
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Openness to others’ ideas and ways of life; respect, curiosity, patience, and self
• Culturally competent care includes knowledge, attitudes, and skills that support caring for people across different languages and cultures. Culture influences not only health practices but also how the healthcare provider and the patient perceive illness. |
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| How can a nurse be culturally competent? |
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| openness to others’ ideas and ways of life; respect, curiosity, patience, and self-awareness of one’s own culture and culturally mediated ideas; and the humility to know that one can always learn more about a certain client’s culture and that person as an individual |
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| What are the steps of culturally competence? |
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1.) Knowledge
2.) Attitudes
3.) Skill Set |
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| Define subculture and explain how it may come into play in a clinical encounter. |
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• Subculture- a group sharing some practices, language, or other characteristics in common, within a larger society that does not share those characteristics
• Subcultures might be grouped by their occupation, age, group, sexual orientation, avocation, socioeconomic status, region, or some other characteristic the individuals share. |
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| How does attribution of illness affect health? (CULTURE) |
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| different cultural world views tend to have different ideas about what causes disease. Anglo-American culture, focuses much on infection, genetics, and personal responsibility in disease and health. Illness is seen as something inside or inherent to an individual. |
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| How does diet affect health? (CULTURE) |
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| what people eat varies tremendously among cultures. A new immigrant from India is more likely to eat rice and legumes than is a fourth-generation Midwesterner whose staples are red meat and bread. Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, and other religions have dietary restrictions about various meats. |
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| How does communication effect health? (CULTURE) |
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a. Verbal communication
b. Non-verbal communication
i. Eye contact: Native American, Chinese, Haitian- a younger client meeting the gaze of a clinician is a sign of disrespect; white American and German, eye contact is a necessary sign of respect.
ii. Personal space: Italian, and many Latin American cultures normally stand close together. People from a Nordic-influenced culture may be comfortable with larger spaces between people |
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| How does time orientation effect health? (CULTURE) |
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| northern European and white American-acculturated people tend to plan ahead, are time conscious, and behave in the present with an eye toward the future. Native Americans focus more on the past, consulting history to help make decisions. Anglo-American, time is thought of as linear and perishable. Hispanic may view an appointment time as a suggestion and arrive when over responsibilities are accomplished. |
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| How do roles effect health? (CULTURE) |
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| American and British ones, a sick person makes decisions for themselves. Asian and Latin-American ones, the family makes treatment decisions as a group. |
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| How does religion effect health? (CULTURE) |
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| What are some examples of folk medicine? |
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a. Foods- chicken soup, garlic, ginger tea, honey, lemon, pepper
b. Herbs- comfrey, ginger, ginseng, lavender, rosemary, St. John’s Wort
c. Methods- coining, cupping, exorcism, holy candle burning, massage, protective jewelry |
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| What keeps migrant farm workers from getting better jobs? |
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| Immigration status, education, language barrier, qualifications |
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| What's the limit to them if all are low? Migrant Farm Workers |
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| No tools to better their selves |
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| Will what they bring home every week ever go up? MFW |
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| What is a Carondia shamia? |
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| - high priest, doctor type person, spirituality healthy (medicine man), used for mental and even physical issues |
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| What do you do when someone uses something other than westernized medicine? |
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Tell me more, herbal supplies could be effecting their health
Might or might not be effective in their health; probably won’t hurt them to use this person |
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