Cultural Concepts in Nursing Flashcards
What is culture?
Shared among people. Embedded in every day life (values, beliefs, norms, thinking, decision making). Intersects with gender, ethnicity, class, socioeconomic status, language.
What is cultural care?
Subjective/objective learned and transmitted beliefs, patterned life ways to help other maintain health to improve their conditions and deal with illness.
What is leiningers model of transcultural nursing?
Wants care that’s culturally congruent (in harmony with patients beliefs, values, practices) and care is competent (provided in sensitive and meaningful ways to fit patient needs, based on nurses cultural knowledge).
What is Campinha bacotes model of cultural competence overall and the 5 concepts?
Views cultural competence as ongoing process, Nurses strive to achieve ability to work within cultural context of client. Includes cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural skill, cultural encounters, and cultural desire.
What is cultural awareness?
Self examination and explore one own cultural background. Aware of difference between cultures.
What is cultural knowledge?
Seek and obtain educational foundation about cultural and ethnic groups. Understand their practices and beliefs.
What is cultural skill?
Collect relevant cultural data regarding clients presenting problem and perform culturally based physical assessment.
What is cultural encounters?
Process that encourages nurses to engage in cross cultural interactions with clients from culturally diverse backgrounds.
What is cultural desire?
Motivation of nurse to want to engage in becoming culturally aware/knowledgeable /skillful/familiar with cultural encounters.
What is cultural humility and sensitivity?
CH- self reflection to understand personal biases and develop/maintain respectful partnership with trust. We want to become student of the patient.
CS- Understand differences are real/acceptable. Be sensitive to differences. Understand how their own assumptions/biases influence care.
What is cultural safety?
INDG concept developed by Māori women. Nurses protects from danger/reduces risk to client from hazards to health and well being. Requires examine root cause of health inequities, understand power differences, racism/discrimination.
What is cultural competency?
Capacity for nurses to care for client of different cultural backgrounds with safe/quality care.
How can we implement culturally safe practice with 3 words?
Reflect, understand, and change behaviour/process which creates unsafe experience for client.
What is 2 eyed seeing and ethical spaces?
2- see from one eye with strengths of INDG knowledges and other eye with strength of western knowledges. Leads to better health for all clients.
ES- create platform for ethical dialogue (respectful relationships, harmony is diversity, acknowledge diverse worldviews, use humility)
What is respectful practice using RESPECT?
R- reflect on own cultural values/beliefs
E- examine/question assumptions in practice
S- share/recongize ethical space of nurse client relationship
P- participate/celebrate cultural uniqueness
E- engage in relationship building
C- create open/trusting environments
T- treat people with dignity/compassion
