Comm Test 1: cultural influences

Question 1

• set of beliefs, values, and assumptions about life that is widely held among a group of people that is transmitted across generations

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

• primarily a social classification that relies on physical markers such as skin color to identify group membership

Answer 2

Race

Question 3

• shared feeling of peoplehood among a group of individuals, it reflects cultural membership and is based on individuals sharing similar cultural patterns

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Ethnicity

Question 4

• self-examination and in-depth exploration of one’s own beliefs and values as they influence behavior

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Cultural awareness

Question 5

oblivious, apathetic, unskilled, destructive overall effect

Answer 5

culturally incompetent-

Question 6

• aware, sympathetic, lacking some skills, neutral overall effect

Answer 6

. culturally sensitive

Question 7

• knowledgeable, committed to change, highly skilled, and constructive overall effect

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culturally competent

Question 8

• the nurse supports and facilitates the use of scientifically supported cultural practices from a person’s culture along with those from the biomedical health care system Ex: acupressure and acupuncture

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cultural preservation

Question 9

• nurse supports and facilitates clients in their use of cultural practices when such practices are not harmful to the client Ex: home burial of placenta

Answer 9

. cultural accommodation

Question 10

• nurse works with clients to help them reorder, change, or modify their cultural practices when these practices are harmful to them Ex: obesity in Mexican woman they eat fried food should opt out for baked

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cultural repatterning

Question 11

advocating, mediating, negotiating and intervening between the client’s culture and the biomedical health care culture on behalf of the clients Ex: only seek health care when ill because they are poor

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cultural brokering-

Question 12

means attributing certain beliefs and behaviors about a group to an individual without giving adequate attention to individual difference Ex: all Asian people are hard working

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stereotyping-

Question 13

• having a deeply held reaction, often negative about another group or person Ex: can be because skin color, race, religion, social standing

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prejudice

Question 14

form of prejudice refers to the belief that persons who are born into a particular group are inferior Ex: intelligence, morals, beauty, self-worth

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racism-

Question 15

cultural prejudice at the population level the belief that one’s own group determines the standards for behavior by which all other groups are to be judged

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ethnocentrism-

Question 16

• tendency to ignore all difference among cultures, to act as though these difference do not exist and as a result trait all people the same

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. cultural blindness

Question 17

• process of imposing one’s values on others Ex: promoting western health practices

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cultural imposition

Question 18

• perceived threat that may arise from a misunderstanding of expectations between clients and nurses when either group is not aware of cultural difference

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cultural conflict

Question 19

• feeling of helplessness, discomfort, and disorientation experienced by an individual attempting to understand or effectively adapt to another cultural group that differs in practices, values and beliefs

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cultural shock

Question 20

• stereotyped both women and intentionally used her informational power to help one client while denying assistance to the other client

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overt intentional

Question 21

doesn’t realize they are stereotyping the client and may be hurtful, though he was providing quality care

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overt unintentional-

Question 22

• Ex: Nursing supervisors were aware of the informal policy dictating that they assign minority nurses to clients in a particular area of the community

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covert intentional

Question 23

• knew certain information but didn’t tell the family because she didn’t like the lifestyle and it influenced her thinking

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covert unintentional

Question 24

physical area persons need between themselves and others to feel comfortable

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space-

Question 25

way in which a cultural group structures itself around the family to carry out role functions Ex: key decision makers

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. social organizations-

Question 26

• cultures can be future, past, and present oriented Ex: Aa and Hispanics focus on present being more important looking at quality of life

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. time perception

Question 27

relationships between humans and nature Ex: AA and Hispanics view nature as dominant: don’t have control to what happens to them, don’t receive treatment for cancer/ less likely to participate in illness prevention

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environmental control-

Question 28

• make it possible to make treatment programs that don’t conflict with the cultural food Ex: AA and Hispanics- fried foods, Asians high cholesterol=soy sauce

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. nutritional practices

Question 29

• physical, biological, and physiological difference that distinguish one racial group form another Ex: eye shape, hair texture, , fat, lips, body shape

Answer 29

biological variations