Chapter 6 Cultural & Ethnic Considerations Flashcards
To understand and integrate different cultures in nursing.
Biomedical health belief system
AKA Western medicine. The belief that health and illness are controlled by a series of physical and biochemical processes that can be analyzed and manipulated by humans. Primary belief in the US.
Cultural competence
Awareness of the nurse if their own cultural belief practices and an understanding of the limitations that these believes put on the nurse when dealing with those from other cultures. This understanding should give the nurse the ability to react to others with openness to and understanding and acceptance of cultural differences between them.
Culture
A set of learned values, believes, customs and practices that are shared by a group passed from one generation to another.
Ethnicity
Ethnicity A group of people who share a common social and cultural heritage based on tradition, national origin, and physical and biologic characteristics. They often share social practices such as language, religion, dress, music, and food.
Ethnic stereotype
A fixed concept of how all members of an ethnic group act or think.
Ethnocentrism
A perception that the practices and believes him one one’s own culture are superior to those of other cultures.
Folk health belief system
The believe that health and illness but controlled by supernatural forces. May use native healers, plants, religious rituals, and prayers.
Holistic health belief system
The believe that forces of nature must be kept in natural balance or harmony.
Race
A group of people who share a biologic and physical characteristics.
Society
A nation, community, or broad group of people who establishe particular aims, believes, or standards of living and conduct.
Stereotype
Generalization about a form of behavior, and individual, or a group.
Subculture
A group that shares many characteristics with the primary culture but has characteristic patterns of behavior and ideals that distinguish it from the rest of a culture group.
Transcultural nursing
Integration of the nurse’s understanding of culture into all aspects of nursing care.
What cultures use the holistic believe system?
Chinese Americans and Muslim Americans
What cultures use the Folk believe system?
Mexican Americans and African-Americans; Mexican Americans sometimes accept Biomedical and African Americans have a highly diverse believe system some adhere to Biomedical and others believe in the Folk belief health system and often the two are practiced concurrently.
