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Chapter 2 Flashcards

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Cultural Care Nursing

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Professional health care that is culturally sensitive, appropriate, and competent

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Cultural and Linguistic Competence

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A set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system among professionals that enables work in cross-cultural situations

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Culture

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The no physical attributes of a person– the thoughts, communications, actions, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups

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Culture-bound Syndrom

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A condition that is culturally defined

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Ethnicity

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A social group within the social system that claims to possess variable traits such as a common geographic origin, migratory status, and religion

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Ethnocentrism

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Tendency to view your own way of life as the most desirable, acceptable, or best and to act superior to another culture’s life ways

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Folk Healer

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Lay healer in the person’s culture apart from the biomedical/scientific health care system

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Health/Illness

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The balance/imbalance of the person, both within one’s being (physical, mental, and/or spiritual) and in the outside world (natural, communal, and/or metaphysical)

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Heritage Consistency

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The degree to which a person’s lifestyle reflects his or her traditional heritage, whether it is American Indian, European, Asian, African, or Hispanic

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Religion

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The belief in a divine or superhuman power or powers to be obeyed and worshiped as the creator(s) and ruler(s) of the universe; and a system of beliefs, practices, and ethical values

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Socialization

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The process of being raised within a culture and acquiring the characteristics of that group

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Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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A federal law that mandates that when people with limited english proficiency (LEP) seek health care in health care settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, daycare centers, and mental health centers, services cannot be denied to them

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Values

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A desirable or undesirable state of affairs and a universal feature of all cultures

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Stratum Germinativum

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Epidermis basal cell layer

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Stratum Corneum

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The outer horny cell layer consisting of dead keratinized cells

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Epidermis Color

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Effected by Melanin, carotene, underlying vascular beds, thickness and presence of edema

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Arrector Pili

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Muscular area around the follicle that contract and elevate hair when skin is exposed to cold or emotional states (goosebumps)

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Vellus Hair

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Soft, fine hair on the body

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Terminal Hair

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Courser head hair

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Sebaceous Glands

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Produce sebum through follicles, lubricates skin & hair, and retards water loss

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Eccrine Glands

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Produce sweat to reduce body temperature

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Apocrine Glands

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Produces thick, milky secretions and open into the hair follicles during emotional and sexual stimulation (decreases with age)

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Lanula

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White, semilunar area proximal to the end of the nail

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Nail Matrix

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Where new keratinized cells are formed (covered by lanula)

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Functions of the Skin

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Protection, Temp regulation, Communication, Wound Repair, Absorption, Excretion, and Production of Vit D

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Lanugo

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Fine downy hair on a newborn

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Vernix Caseosa

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Thick, cheesy substance made up of sebum and shed epithelial cells (piles on newborns)

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Chloasma

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Increased pigment in the face during pregnancy

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Linea Nigra

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Darkened midline on abdomen during pregnancy

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Senile Purpura

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Increased vascular fragility (purple-red patches) looks like ecchymosis (bruising)

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Pruritus

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Macules

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Nevi

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Vitiligo

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Patches of much lighter skin

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Hypothermia

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Peripheral arterial insufficiency with circular disturbance

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Hyperthermia

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Occurs with increased metabolic rate from trauma, infection, or suburb

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Turgor

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Way to access hydration status (tenting)

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Cherry (Senile) Angiomas

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Red, flat, macule, both pathological

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Mongolian Spot

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Blueish spots on the lower back if dark pigmented infants

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Café au lait spot

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Coffee colored birthmarks

Large oval

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Physiological Jaundice

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Newborn, non-pathological yellowing

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Stork Bite

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Red macule in back of neck

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Open Comedones

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Blackheads

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Closed Comedones

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Whiteheads

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Senile Lentigines

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Liver/age spots (flat, brown, often from sun damage)

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Seborrheic Keratosis

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“Stuck ons” (brown)

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Acrochordons

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Skin tags (flesh colored)

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Sebaceous Hyperplasia

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Overgrowth of glands (can change face shape)

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Striae Gravidarum

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Stretch marks

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Hirsuitism

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Shaggy, excessive hair

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Xerosis

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Ephelides

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Harlequin Color Change

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When laying on side infant lower half turns red and upper half blanches

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Erythema Toxicum

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Rash in first 3-4 days of life

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Acrocyanosis

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Bluish color around lips, hands fingernails feet toenails of infant

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Cutis Marmorata

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Transient mottling in the trunk and extremities in response to cooler room temps (red or blue pattern over skin)

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Carotenemia

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Yellow orange color in light skin people but no yellowing of sclera or mucus membranes

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Actinic (senile or solar) Keratosis

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Red tan scaly plaques that increase over the years to become raised and roughened

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Sebaceous Hyperplasia

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Raised yellow papules with a central depression

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Patch

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Macules larger than 1cm

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Nodule

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Solid, elevated, hard or soft, larger than 1cm

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Tumor

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Larger than a few centimeters in diameter, firm or soft, deeper into dermis

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Plaque

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Papules coalesce to form surface elevation wider than 1cm

Nursing 230 (4 decks)

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