Cultural/Spiritual Flashcards
Thoughts, communication, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious or social groups
Culture
- learned and shared
Care that is centered on the clients cultural sense.
Culturally Responsive Care
- complex, multi-dimensional
- look at race, ethnicity, and nationality
A person who has multiple patterns of identification or crosses several cultures, lifestyles, and sets of values.
Multicultural
Refers to the fact or state of being different
- sex
- age
- culture
- ethnicity
- socioeconomic status
- Education
- religious affiliations
Diversity
Term not primary with biological or genetic in reference
Race
Relationship among individuals who believe that they have distinctive characteristics that make them a group
Ethnicity
Sovereign state or country where an individual has membership
Nationality
System of beliefs, practices, and ethical values about divine or superhuman power worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe.
Religion
Stats
Recipients of worst care: 65+ Blacks Asians American Indians Alaska natives Poor
Access is a major component
Madeline Leininger: CULTURE
_____: providing care within the differences and similarities of the beliefs values and patterns of culture
Transcultural Nursing
____: ongoing process in which health care professionals continuously strive to achieve he ability and availability to work effectively within the cultural context of the patient
Cultural competence
Motivation to learn about other cultures
Cultural desire
Look at own biases in order to be mindful before working with other cultures
Cultural awareness
Cultural skills: apply this in communication with patients
Culture
Western medical practices:
-conventional medicine, biomedicine, allopathic medicine
Based on ancient medical systems
Evolved in past 200 years
On frontier(some mind body approaches)
Complimentary medicine
Holism: whole
Humanism: mind and body are indivisible. People have the power to solve their own problems.
Balance: desirable point between two forces
Energy: force that integrates the mind body and spirit and connects everything
Basic concepts
Drive to become all that one can be and is bound to intuition creativity and motivation
Involves relationship with oneself and a higher power
Gives meaning and purpose in life
Spirituality
Nurses empower clients by providing the knowledge skills and support that allows them to tap into their inner wisdom
Make healthy decisions
Healing environments
Religion: ritualistic practice based on an organized belief (rosary and bible)
Agnostic: doubts existence of God
Atheist: person without belief. “There is no God”
Spirituality
Spiritual care may emerge into therapeutically oriented interventions
Spiritual care
Expresses lack of hope Abandoned feelings Refuse interactions with sig. other Sudden change in spiritual practice Refuses interaction with spiritual leader No interest in nature of literature
Spiritual distress
Believes that affect care:
Diet: Orth. Jews cannot eat shellfish or pork
Muslims can’t eat pork or alcohol
Cath. No meat on fridays during Lent
Dress: Orth. Jews men cover head
Mormans wear temple garments
Islamic body and head are covered
Death: cath. Sacrement of the sick
Muslim turn towards Mecca and take body away
Jewish ritual bath and prep dead loved one
FICA
Assessing spiritual care:
Faith (what beliefs are important)
Implication (how does faith effect care)
Community (is there a support group)
Address (how would you like your health care team to address your religion?)
Nursing interventions
Offering your presence
Support clients religious practice
Assisting client with prayer
Referring to spiritual leader
