cultural awareness Flashcards
The nurse’s self-examination and continual reflection on his or her own roots, biases, and prejudice.
cultural awareness
The capacity to function effectively as an individual and an organization within the context of the cultural beliefs, behaviors, and needs of consumers and communities
cultural competence
A personal motivation to be culturally competent and not just meet some external requirement.
cultural desire
Conversations and exchanges with individuals of other cultures that help nurses validate and refine their own beliefs and values about other cultures.
cultural encounters
The ability to recognize the limitations of one’s own culture and be motivated to learn about other cultures.
cultural humility
Information about other cultures and ethnic groups.
cultural knowledge
Incongruence between the patient’s cultural needs and the nurse’s inappropriate response or lack of response.
cultural pain
The ability to assess others and provide care that incorporates cultural knowledge.
cultural skill
The set of distinctive, spiritual, material, intellectual, and emotional features of society or a social group; encompasses art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions, and beliefs.
culture
Actual discrimination or mistreatment related to having a stigmatizing condition.
enacted stigma
Description of how a group of people share common characteristics such as race, nationality, religion, language, and cultural heritage.
ethnicity
The individual’s accepting the stigma as a characteristic of self that contributes to self-hatred.
internalized stigma
Short, common daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental incident that conveys hostile and negative racial insults or discrimination.
microaggression
Genetically determined and geographically based characteristics.
race
Overgeneralizing group characteristics that reinforce societal biases and distort individual characteristics.
stereotyping
