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