CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS Flashcards
a combination of knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors that often are specific to racial, ethnic, geographic, social, or religious groups(NIH, 2013).
CULTURE
“the totality of socially transmitted behavioral patterns, arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways, and all other products of human work and thought characteristic of a population or people that guide their world view and decision making.”
Purnell and Paulanka
Dress, art, utensils, and tools and the way they are used.
MATERIAL CULTURE
Verbal and nonverbal language, beliefs, customs, and social structures.
NONMATERIAL CULTURE
National, racial, or ethnic groups.
MACROCULTURE
Age, gender, or religious affiliation.
MICROCULTURE
It exists within larger cultural groups.
● Composed of individuals who have a distinct identity based on occupation, membership in a social group, or heritage, and generational.
SUBCULTURES
The process of adaptation and change that occurs when members of different cultures are exposed to one another(Berry,2003).
ACCULTURATION
The adoption and incorporation of characteristics, customs, and values of the dominant culture by those new to that culture(Smokowskiet.al.,2009).
★Adopting new cultural practices while losing their original cultural identity.
ASSIMILATION
Perceived to be separate illnesses within certain cultures.
Typically have both behavioral and physical characteristics.
CULTURE BASED SYNDROMES
Illnesses defined as such by a specific cultural group but interpreted differently or not perceived illnesses by other groups.
CULTURE BOUNDSYNDROMES
CULTURAL COMPETENCE
Illnesses defined as such by a specific cultural group but interpreted differently to perceived illnesses by other groups.
The capacity of nurses or health services delivery systems to effectively understand and plan for the needs of a culturally diverse patient group.
CULTURAL COMPETENCE
Communication is challenged if the patient doesn’t speak the same language as a nurse or uses the language of the dominant culture.
Communicating with Language Differences
refers to an individual or group’s orientation in terms of past, present, and future as well as last time orientation.
Temporal Relationships
refers to the roles and relationships that exist within the family.
Family Patterns
the types and the amount of food that individuals include in their diet is culturally determined.
Dietary Patterns
Health and illness are believed to be controlled supernaturally or are seen as “God’s will.”
Magico-Religious
Consider illness to be caused by germs, viruses, or a breakdown in body processes and functions, and they believe that physiologic human processes can be affected by human intervention.
Biomedical
One holds that human life must be in harmony with nature and that illness results from disharmony between the two.
Holistic
The verbal and nonverbal methods which individuals and groups transmit information.
Communication
includes spoken and written language.
Verbal
incorporates gestures, facial expressions, and mannerisms that inform others of emotions, feelings, and responses that occur in interactions with others.
Nonverbal
The process in which the nurse continuously strives to achieve the ability and availability to effectively work within the cultural context of a Client individual, family or community
CAMPINHA-BACOTE’SCULTURALLYCOMPETENT MODELOFCARE
The motivation to want to engage in intercultural encounters and to acquire cultural competence.
CULTURAL DESIRE
The deliberate, cognitive process in which the healthcare provider becomes appreciative and sensitive to the values, beliefs, lifeways, practices andproblem-solvingstrategiesofaclient’sculture.
CULTURALAW AWARENESS
Not aware that one lacks cultural knowledge; not aware that cultural differences exist.
Unconscious Incompetence
Aware that one lacks knowledge about another culture; aware that cultural differences exist but not knowing what they are or how to communicate effectively with clients from different cultures
Conscious Incompetence
Consciously learning about the client’s culture and providing culturally relevant interventions; aware of differences; able to have effective transcultural interactions.
Conscious Competence
Able to automatically provide culturally congruent care to clients from a different culture, having much experience with a variety of cultural groups and having an intuitive grasp of how to communicate effectively in transcultural encounters
Unconscious Competence
The process of seeking and obtaining a sound educational foundation concerning the various worldviews of different cultures.
CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE
The ability to collect relevant cultural data regarding the client’s health history and presenting problems as well as accurately performing physical assessment.
CULTURAL SKILL
The process that allows the healthcare provider to engage directly in face-to-face interactions with clients from culturally diverse backgrounds.
CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
Remember that _______ is only one aspect of cultural diversity.
ethnicity
