Cultural Competence: cultural care

Question 1

___________ All persons who were granted lawful permanent residence.

Answer 1

Legal resident

Question 2

___________the conferring, by any means, of citizenship upon a person after birth.

Answer 2

Naturalization

Question 3

___________An alien who seeks temporary entry to the U.S for a specific purpose

Answer 3

Non-Immigrant

Question 4

An alien, appearing to be inadmissible to the inspecting officer, allowed into the U.s for urgent humanitarian reasons or when that aliens entry is determined to be for significant public benefit is termed what?

Answer 4

Parolee

Question 5

An alien admitted to the US as a lawful permanent resident

Answer 5

Permanent resident alien

Question 6

__________ is any person who is unable or unwilling to return to that country because of persecution or a well founded fear of persecution

Answer 6

Refugee

Question 7

_______ are all foreign born non citizens who are not legal residents

Answer 7

Unauthorized residents

Question 8

The national standards for culturally and linguistically appropriate services in Health care demand that all patients recieve_____ care, _____care, and ____________

Answer 8

Effective care; respectful care; cultural and linguistic competence

Question 9

A ______ is the unusual and disproportionate frequency of a given health problem within a population when compared with other populations

Answer 9

Health disparity

-factors that contribute are health care system, providers, communities etc

Question 10

__________ implies that caregivers possess some basic knowledge of and constructive attitudes toward the diverse cultural populations found in the setting in which they are practicing.

Answer 10

culturally sensitive

Question 11

____________ implies that the caregivers apply the underlying background knowledge that must be possessed to provide a given person with the best possible healthcare

Answer 11

Culturally appropriate

Question 12

What does culturally competent imply?

Answer 12

that the caregivers understand and attend to the total context of the individuals situation including awareness of immigration status, stress factors, other social factors and cultural similarities and differences.

Question 13

To be culturally competent what four areas of knowledge must be understood?

Answer 13

1. your own personal heritage
2. the heritage of the nursing profession
3. the heritage of the health care system
4. The heritage of the patient

Question 14

________ a concept that describes “ the degree to which ones lifestyle reflects his or her respective American Indian tribal culture”… This has been expanded to study the degree to which a persons lifestyle reflects his or her traditional heritage.

Answer 14

Heritage Consistency

- Heritage consistent( traditional)
Heritage inconsistent (modern)

• the concept of heritage consistency includes a determination of a persons cultural, ethnic, and religious background and socialization experiences.

Question 15

The four basic characteristics of culture are?

Answer 15

1. learned
2. shared
3. adapted
4. dynamic

Question 16

_____ social group within the social system that claims to posses variable traits such a s a common geography origin, migratory status, religion, race, language, shared values, tradition,s or symbols, and food preferences.

Answer 16

ethnic background

Question 17

Spirituality vs Religion

Answer 17

Spirituality: born out of each person’s unique life experience and his or her personal effort to find purpose and meaning in life

Religion- an organized system of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially belief in or the worship of God or Gods.

Question 18

___________ The process of adapting to and acquiring another culture

Answer 18

Acculturation

Question 19

________the process by which a person develops a new cultural identity and becomes like the members of the dominant culture.

Answer 19

Assimilation

Question 20

____________dual pattern of identification and often of divided loyalty

Answer 20

Biculturalism

Question 21

Review the extensive list numbers 1-12 of heritage assesment questions

Answer 21

Page 17-19

Question 22

what is health?

Answer 22

balance of mind, body, and spirit….. illness is the loss of this balance

Question 23

What 3 ways is diseas causation viewed as?

Answer 23

1. biomedical or scientific
2. Naturalistic or holistic
3. Magicoreligous perspective

Question 24

________ theory of illness causation is based on the assumption that all events in life have a cause and effect, that the human body functions more or less mechanically

Answer 24

Biomedical or scientific

• all life can be reduced or divided into smaller parts
  all of reality can be observed and measured
  germ theory- microscopic organisms such as bacteria and viruses are responsible for specific disease conditions.

Question 25

__________theory believes that human life is only one aspect of nature and a part of the general order of the cosmos.

Answer 25

Naturalistic/holistic

• yin/yang theory- health is believed to exist when all aspects of the person are in perfect balance.
  foods are classified as hot and cold in this theory and are transformed into yin and yang energy when metabolized by the body. ( asians)

*hot/cold theory- four humors of the body (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile- regulate basic bodily functions and are described in terms of temp, dryness and moisture

Question 26

___________theory believes the person is whole, not just a particular ailment.

Answer 26

Hot/cold theory
* health consists of a positive state of total well being, including physical, psychological, spiritual and social aspects of the person

Under Naturalistic umbrella!

Question 27

___________ theory’s basic premise is that the world is seen as an arena in which supernatural forces dominate. The fate of the world and thos in it depends on the action of supernatural forces for good or evil

Answer 27

Magicoreligioius

• examples are voodoo,

Question 28

folk healers from different cultures…

Answer 28

sabedor- manipulates bones and muscles
hougan-voodoo priest
shaman-medicine woman
braucher- amish visit this folk healer