Culturally competent care

Question 1

define culture

Answer 1

integration of human behaviors that impact how they perceive healthcare and all aspects of their life

Question 2

what does culture is ethnocentric mean

Answer 2

they view their culture as the only correct standard

Question 3

what does it mean to be cultural competent

Answer 3

being able to provide effective health care to differen’t cultures and understanding own biases and its impact on others

Question 4

emic vs. etic

Answer 4

emic: insider’s pov
etic: outsider’s pov

Question 5

acculturation

Answer 5

modification of their own culture once they learn from another culture

Question 6

assimilation

Answer 6

lose their own culture as they learn to adapt the prevailing culture

Question 7

health equality vs. health equity

Answer 7

equality: give the same resources despite different needs
equity: providing diff needs to allow same opportunities

Question 8

St. Johns wort interact with which medication

Answer 8

antidepressants - may overdose

Question 9

explanatory model

Answer 9

open-ended interviews to ask for their explaination of health and illness

Question 10

ethnographic interview

Answer 10

structured way to get culturally based answers to understand more

Question 11

purpose of Kleinman’s explanatory model

Answer 11

8 questions to understand the pt’s understanding of their health and illness as well as their culture

Question 12

cultural dissonance

Answer 12

discomfort when their culture is different from the society they live in