Chapter 10 Cultural Competence Awareness, Sensitivity, and Respect

Question 1

properties of culture

Answer 1

dynamic
shared
learned

Question 2

is culture static

Answer 2

dynamic

Question 3

is culture private

Answer 3

shared

Question 4

is cultured learned

Answer 4

yes it is not inherited

Question 5

defintion of culture

Answer 5

music, language, economy, fashion, religion, art of community

set of practices and behaviors defined by customs, habits, language, and geography that groups that groups of individuals share

Question 6

cross cultural/transcultural nursing

Answer 6

any nursing encounter in which the client and nurse are from different cultures

Question 7

culture competence

Answer 7

considering cultural aspects of health, illness, and treatment for each client or community, as well as doing so at each stage of the nursing process

Question 8

who developed transcultural nursing

Answer 8

Leininger

Question 9

what is Leininger’s position

Answer 9

nurse anthropologist

Question 10

for a community and public health agencies to be culturally competent they must

Answer 10

have a defined set of values and principles and demonstrate behaviors, attitueds, policies, and structures that enable them to work effectively cross culturally

Question 11

cultural safety refers to

Answer 11

providing culturally appropriate health services to disadvantaged groups while stressing dignity and avoiding institutional racism, assimilation, and repressive practices

Question 12

ethnocentrism

Answer 12

assumption that others believe and behave as the dominant culture does, or the belief that the dominant culture is superior to others
EX: a family who has a large get together on Christmas as has ham might assume everyone does this

Question 13

cultural sterotyping

Answer 13

tendency to view individuals of common cultural backgrounds similarity and according to a preconceived notion of how they behave
EX: all Chinese people like rice

Question 14

Subculture

Answer 14

group sharing some practices, language, or other characteristics in common, within a larger society that doe snot share those characteristics

Question 15

examples of a subculture

Answer 15

occupation
age
cohort
sexual orientation
race

Question 16

Race, is it a social construct or biologic entity

Answer 16

social construct

Question 17

is there one normal or completely unbiased person

Answer 17

no

Question 18

people from more dominant cultures might feel

Answer 18

more normal because their culture is well reflected in the world and media

Question 19

the first imperative of cultural competence

Answer 19

is to be competent in one owns cultural heritage

Question 20

aspects of culture directly affecting health and health care

Answer 20

attribution of illness
diet
verbal communication
nonverbal communication
style of communication
time orientation
roles
religion
folk medicine

Question 21

3 parts of mutual goal setting

Answer 21

maintaining
negotiation
restructuring

Question 22

maintaining

Answer 22

keeping what is not harming their health and what they believe helps them
EX: prayer

Question 23

negotiate

Answer 23

work and compromise with the patient on some things that might need to be changed

Question 24

restructure

Answer 24

change what is causing harm