Chapter 2: Cultural Competence: Cultural Care (Vocab) Flashcards
A set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system among professionals that enables work in cross-cultural situations
Cultural and Linguistic Competence
Professional health care that is culturally sensitive, appropriate, and competent
Cultural Care Nursing
The nonphysical attributes of a person - the thoughts, communications, actions, belifs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups
Culture
A condition that is culturally defined
Culture-bound Syndrome
A social group within the social system that claims to possess variable traits such as a common geographic origin, migratory status, and religion
Ethnicity
Tendency to view your own way of life as the most desirable, acceptable, or best and to act superior to another culture’s lifeways
Ethnocentrism
Lay healer in the person’s culture apart from the biomedical/scientific health care system
Folk healer
the balance/imbalance of a person, both within one’s being and in the outside world
Health/Illness
The degree to which a person’s lifestyle reflects his or her traditional heritage, whether it is American Indian, European, Asian, African, or Hispanic
Heritage consistency
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
Religion
The process of being raised within a culture and acquiring the characteristics of that group
Socialization
a federal law that mandates that when people with limited English proficiency (LEP) seek health care in health care setting such as hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, daycare centers, and mental health centers, services cannot be denied to them
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
A desirable or undesirable state of affairs and a universal feature of all cultures
Values
