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Culture

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Knowledge, beliefs, values, and traditions that are shared by a group of people about life and the world which passes to the next generation

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Cultural competence

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The ability to provide care that respects and integrates aspects of culture to meet client needs

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Cultural humility

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Continuing self-reflection and awareness of cultural biases, assumptions, and values, better knowing of one’s self that results in better care

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Buddhism birth practices (2)

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  • Believe in reincarnation
  • Contraception to prevent conception is allowed
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Buddhism death practices (5)

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  • Ensure calm, peaceful environment
  • Chanting is common
  • Monk delivers last rites
  • Organ donation encouraged
  • Cremation is common
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Buddhism dietary restrictions (2)

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  • Vegetarian
  • Avoid alcohol
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Buddhism health practices (2)

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  • Quiet, peaceful environment for rest, meditation, and prayer
  • May refuse care on holy days
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Catholicism birth practices (2)

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  • Contraception, abortion, sterilization prohibited
  • Baptism required
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Catholicism death practices (3)

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  • Priest administers last rites
  • Organ donation allowed
  • Suicide may prevent burial in Catholic cemetery
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Catholicism healthpractices (3)

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  • Want to see priest when hospitalized
  • Request communion/confession to help with healing
  • Wear cross/medal/display religious statues
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Hinduism birth practices (4)

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  • Contraception allowed
  • Abortion might be prohibited
  • Males not circumcised
  • Baby not named until 10th day of life
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Hinduism death practices (6)

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  • Believe in reincarnation
  • Allowing natural death is traditional
  • Patient may want to lay on the floor while dying
  • Thread placed around neck/wrist
  • Organ donation allowed
  • Prefer cremation
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Hinduism dietary restrictions (4)

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  • Vegetarian
  • No beef/pork
  • Right hand is for eating, left hand is for toileting/hygiene
  • Several days set aside for fasting
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Hinduism health practices (2)

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  • Personal hygiene very important
  • Future lives influenced by how one faces illness, disability, death
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Catholicism dietary restrictions

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  • Some might not eat meat on Ash Wednesday and Fridays during Lent
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Christian birth practices (2)

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  • Abortion prohibited
  • May give birth at home
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Christian death practices (2)

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  • Avoid medical help to prolong life
  • Organ donation not allowed
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Christian dietary restrictions

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  • Avoid alcohol
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Christian health practices (2)

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  • Medications/blood products avoided
  • Healing minister practices spiritual healing and doesn’t use medical/psychological techniques
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Islam birth practices (4)

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  • Contraception allowed
  • Abortion allowed in certain situations
  • Prayer said into baby’s ear at birth
  • Circumcision is customary
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Islam death practices (5)

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  • Patient may want to confess sins before death
  • Dying patient may want to face Meca (East)
  • Organ donation/autopsy acceptable, devout Muslims may deny both due to fear of desecration of the dead
  • Traditional bathing and burial within 24 hours
  • Cremation not allowed
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Islam dietary restrictions (5)

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  • Food must be halal (lawful)
  • Pork, some shellfish, alcohol not allowed
  • Ramadan is a period of fasting during the ninth lunar month
  • Halal meats come from animals that have been slaughtered during a payer ritual
  • Haram (prohibit) foods are pork, gelatin, alcohol, animals with fangs
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Islam health practices (4)

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  • Patient may pray up to 5 times a day facing Meca and may have a prayer rug
  • Privacy during prayer is important
  • Women very modest and cover entire body
  • Women may refuse male health care workers
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Judaism birth practices (3)

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  • Abortion allowed
  • Ritual circumcision called a bris and done on the 8th day of life
  • Orthodox Jewish males not allowed in delivery room
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Judaism death practices (5)

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  • Autopsy discouraged
  • Organ donation allowed
  • Someone stays with the body at all times
  • Ritual bathing and burial within 24 hours
  • Cremation not allowed
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Judaism dietary restrictions (5)

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  • Food has to be kosher
  • Milk and meat can’t be served at the same meal or prepared on the same dishes
  • Pork, shellfish not allowed
  • Fasting required on Yom Kippur
  • Lactose intolerance common among Jews with European origin
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Judaism health practices (4)

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  • Saving a life overrides nearly all religious obligations
  • Prayers of well-being of the sick may be said
  • Anything that can be done to ease patient’s suffering is encouraged
  • During Sabbath Orthodox Jews don’t use electrical appliances
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Mormon birth practices (3)

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  • Contraception is up to the man and woman
  • Abortion is prohibited unless special circumstances
  • Babies not baptized
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Mormon death practices (3)

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  • Organ donation allowed
  • Autopsy allowed
  • Life continues beyond death
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Mormon dietary restrictions (2)

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  • Alcohol, coffee, tea not allowed
  • Fasting required once a month
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Mormon health practices (2)

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  • May want to use herbal remedies in addition to medical care
  • When blessing the sick a person is anointed with oil by 2 elders
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Seventh Day Adventists birthpractices (2)

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  • Abortion is acceptable in some circumstances
  • Opposed to infant baptism
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Seventh Day Adventist death practices (2)

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  • Autopsy allowed
  • Organ donation allowed
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Seventh Day Adventist dietary restrictions (2)

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  • Vegetarian
  • Alcohol, coffee, tea not allowed
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Seventh Day Adventists health practices (2)

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  • Healing accomplished through medical care and divine healing
  • Prayer and anointing with oil may be performed

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