Chapter 9: Culture and Ethnicity Definitions

Question 1

This is a second culture learning that occurs when the culture of a minority is gradually displaced by the culture of the dominant group in the process of assimilation.

What is this defined as?

Answer 1

Acculturation

Question 2

When this occurs, members of an ethnocultural community are absorbed into another community and lose their unique characteristics such as language, customs, and ethnicity. This may be spontaneous or it may be forced.

What is this defined as?

Answer 2

Assimilation

Question 3

This often occurs when an individual identifies equally with two or more cultures.

What is this defined as?

Answer 3

Biculturalism

Question 4

This occurs when kinship extends to both the fathers and mothers side of the family.

Answer 4

Bilineal

Question 5

This is the thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups. What is this defined as?

Answer 5

Culture

Question 6

Adapt or negotiate with others for a beneficial or satisfying health outcome.

What is this defined as?

Answer 6

Cultural Care Accommodation or Negotiation

Question 7

Reorder, change, or greatly modify patients lifestyles for a new, different, and beneficial healthcare pattern.

What is this defined as?

Answer 7

Cultural Care Repatterning or Restructuring

Question 8

This is the process of acquiring specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes to ensure delivery of culturally congruent care.

What is this defined as?

Answer 8

Cultural Competence

Question 9

Nurses and other healthcare providers who have cultural ignorance or cultural blindness about differences generally resort to this and use their own values and lifestyles as the absolute guide to dealing with patients and interpreting their behaviors.

What is this defined as?

Answer 9

Cultural Imposition

Rationale: A nurse who believes that people should bear paint quietly as a demonstration of strong while character is annoyed when a patient insists on having pain medication and denies the patient’s discomfort.

Question 10

This occurs when healthcare providers disregard values or cultural beliefs of their patients.

What is this defined as?

Answer 10

Cultural Pain

Question 11

This is the goal of transcultural nursing. This is care that fits the persons life patterns, values, and the set of meetings. Patterns and meanings are generated from people themselves rather than predetermined criteria.

What is this defined as?

Answer 11

Culturally Congruent Care

Question 12

These are illnesses that are specific to one culture. They are used to explain personal and social reactions of the members of the culture. These can occur in any society.

What is this defined as?

Answer 12

Culture-Bound Syndrome

Ex. In the United States going postal which refers to extreme and uncontrollable anger in the workplace that may result in shooting people is now considered a culture bound syndrome.

Question 13

In any intercultural and counter there is an insider or native perspective.

What is this defined as?

Answer 13

Emic Worldview

Rationale: After giving birth a Korean woman request seaweed soup for her first meal. This request puzzles the nurse. Although the nurse has an emic view of professional postpartum care, as an outsider to the Korean culture he or she is not aware of the significance of the soup to the patient.

Question 14

Socialization into one’s primary culture as a child.

What is this defined as?

Answer 14

Enculturation

Question 15

This refers to a shared identity related to social and cultural heritage such as values, language, geographical space, and racial characteristics. Members of this group of file common sense of identity.

What is this defined as?

Answer 15

Ethnicity

Some declare their ethnic identity to be Irish, Vietnamese, or Brazilian. This is different from the race.

Question 16

Cultural groups transmit their values, morals, and norms from one generation to another which predisposes members to this tendency to hold one’s own way of life as superior to others. This is the cause of biases and prejudices that associate negative permanent characteristics with people who are judge from the valued group. when a person acts on these prejudices discrimination occurs.

What is this defined as?

Answer 16

Ethnocentrism

Question 17

And any intercultural encounter there is an outsider perspective.

What is this defined as?

Answer 17

Etic Worldview

Rationale: After giving birth to a Korean woman request seaweed soup for her first meal. The Korean patient who has an etic view of American professional care assumes that seaweed soup is available in the hospital because it cleans the blood and promotes healing and lactation.

Question 18

in collectivistic cultures families are made up of distant blood relatives across three generations and _______ also known as non-blood kin.

What is this defined as?

Answer 18

Fictive

Question 19

This occurs when kinship is limited to the side of the mother.

What is this defined as?

Answer 19

Matrilineal

Question 20

These people attribute illness to natural, interpersonal, and biological forces that cause alteration in the equilibrium of the human body. Healing emphasizes use of naturalistic modalities, including herbs, chemicals, heat, cold, massage, and surgery.

What is this defined as?

Answer 20

Naturalistic Practitioner

Question 21

This occurs when kinship is limited to the side of the father.

What is this defined as?

Answer 21

Patrilineal

Question 22

These people believe that an external agent which can be human example (Ex. witch or ghosts) cause health and illness. These beliefs emphasize the importance of humans relationships with others, both living and deceased, and with other deities.

What is this defined as?

Answer 22

Personalistic Practitioner

Ex. A Haitian woman who believes in voodoo attributes her illness 2 acres place by someone and seek the services of a voodoo priest to remove the curse.

Question 23

Van Gennep originated this concept as a significant social marker of changes in a persons life.

What is this defined as?

Answer 23

Rites of Passage

Ex. Sending flowers and to get well greetings to a sick person is a ritual showing love and care for the patient in the dominant American culture in which privacy is valued.

Question 24

This has similarities with the dominant culture, they maintain their unique life patterns, values, and norms.

What is this defined as?

Answer 24

Subcultures

Rationale: The Amish culture are an example of ethnic and religious groups of characteristics distinct from the dominant culture.

Question 25

As defined by Leininger this is a comparative study of cultures to understand similarities cultural universal and differences culture specific across human groups. The goal is care that fits the persons life patterns, values, and a set of meetings.
What is this defined as?

Answer 25

Transcultural Nursing

Question 26

This is a concept that applies to a group of people whose members share values and ways of thinking and acting that are different from those of people who are outside the group. What is this defined as?

Answer 26

Culture

Question 27

This refers to significant historical experiences of a particular group. These patient stories revealed a broad picture of who they are and the cultural lifestyle they embrace.

What is this defined as?

Answer 27

Ethnohistory

Question 27

Retain and/or preserve relevant care values so patients maintain their well-being, recover from illness, or face handicaps and/or death.

Answer 27

Cultural Care Preservation or Maintenance