Cultural Competence/Transcultural Nursing Flashcards
Define culture
The patterned lifeways, values, beliefs, norms, symbols, and practices of individuals, groups, or institutions that are learned, shared, and usually transmitted from one generation to another
Iceberg model of culture: above water
- music
- art
- food and drink
- greeting
- dress
- manners
- rituals
- outward behaviors
Iceberg model of culture: below water
oreientation to…
- environment
- time
- action
- communication
- power
- individualism
- structure
- thinking
Iceberg model of culture: What do we judge
The surfaces stuff
often without knowing what is under
Iceberg model of culture: what supports what we see
The under the water
is their underlying beliefs, orientation, and attitudes
*Define stereotype
An assumption about what all people in a culture/defined group are like
*Define generalization
The same content as a stereotype, assumption about a population, but it is used as a starting point and it is explored to see if it fits an individual
Can one person belong to multiple cultures?
yes
*Define race
Biological
Physical characteristic similarity
Group of people with a common ancestry
*Define ethnicity
Cultural
Members of a group that consider themselves to be distinctive in terms of belonging, culture, history, symbolism, ideology, political ideology, beliefs regarding origin
A person is of one ____ but can be of different ____
A person is of one race but can be of different ethnicity
Race aspects
- biological subspecies
- genetic characteristics
- tendany towards development of certain disease
Ethnicity aspects
- common traits or customs
- learned behaviors
- social not biological
Is race a thing?
No because it is based off of genetics and there is no true race definition due to biological variance in said races
it is a social construt
*Define ancestry
the connection to a geographical origin of ancestors
-recognizes the connection of genetic variations to a geographical origin.
Does ancestry equal ethnicity?
NO
*Define ethnocentrism
Belief that one’s own cultural view are only way of doing things that are right and natural
Define cultural clashes
Misunderstanding or disagreement or different perspective between cultures
*Who is Dr. Madeeine Leininger and what did she develop
Nursing theorist
- Created the idea of transcultural nursing
- developed ethnocentrism qualitative research method
- Developed culture care theory
*leininger’s definition of transcultural nursing
a substantive area of study and practice focused on comparative cultural care (caring) values, beliefs, and practices of individuals or groups of similar or different cultures with the goal of providing culture-specific
and universal nursing care practices in promoting health or well-being or to help people to face unfavorable human conditions, illness, or death in culturally meaningful ways