Culturally Responsive Care

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care that is centered on the client’s cultural point of view and integrates the client’s values and beliefs into the plan of care

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Culturally responsive care

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thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups

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Culture

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composed of people who have a distinct identity and yet are related to a larger cultural group.

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Subculture

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used to describe a person who has multiple patterns of identification or crosses several cultures, lifestyles, and sets of values.

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Multicultural

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refers to the fact or state of being different.

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Diversity

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term with many definitions, often used interchangeably with the terms ethnicity and culture.

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Race

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term often interchangeably used with race, may be viewed as a relationship among individuals who believe that they have distinctive characteristics that make them a group

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Ethnicity

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refers to the sovereign state or country where an individual has membership, which may be through birth, through inheritance (parents), or through naturalization.

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Nationality

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a system of beliefs, practices, and ethical values about divine or superhuman power worshipped as the creator(s) and ruler(s) of the universe.

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Religion

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belief in the superiority of one’s own culture and lifestyle.

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Ethnocentrism

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the fear or dislike of people different from one’s self.

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Xenophobia

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preconceived notion or judgment that is not based on sufficient knowledge; it may be favorable or unfavorable.

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Prejudice

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lead to stereotyping and discriminatory behavior toward groups of people.

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Unfavorable prejudice

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refers to assumptions held about racial groups.

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Racism

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denial of opportunities and equal rights based on race

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Institutional racism

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negative treatment of individuals or groups on the basis of their race, ethnicity, gender, or other group membership.

It occurs when rights and opportunities are denied for arbitrary or prejudicial reasons.

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Discrimination

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are statements about common cultural patterns

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Generalizations

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refers to making the assumption that an individual reflects all characteristics associated with being a member of a group.

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STEREOTYPING

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the differences in care experienced by one population compared with another population.

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Health disparities

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Determinants of health include gender, socioeconomic status, employment status, educational attainment, food security status, availability of housing and transportation, racism, and health system access and quality

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Social determinants of health

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examples include patterns of overweight and obesity; exercise norms; and use of illicit drugs, tobacco, or alcohol

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Behavioral determinants of health

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Determinants of health examples include lead exposure, asthma triggers, workplace safety factors, unsafe or polluted living conditions

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Environmental determinants of health

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Health determinants examples include family history of heart disease and inherited conditions such as hemophilia and cystic fibrosis

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Biological and genetic determinantsof health

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Who promulgated the term transcultural nursing?

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Madeleine Leininger

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focuses on providing care within the differences and similarities of the beliefs, values, and patterns of cultures.

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Transcultural nursing

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the ongoing process in which the health care professional continuously strives to achieve the ability and availability to work effectively within the cultural context of the patient.

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Cultural competence

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Five constructs of cultural competence

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desire, awareness, knowledge, skills,encounters

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the motivation to “want to engage in the process of becoming culturally aware, culturally knowledgeable, culturally skillful, and seeking cultural encounters.

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Cultural desire

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self-examination of one’s own prejudices and biases toward other cultures, and an in-depth exploration of one’s own cultural/ethnic background

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Cultural awareness

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obtaining a sound educational foundation concerning the various worldviews of different cultures

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Cultural knowledge

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the ability to collect culturally relevant data regarding the client’s health in a culturally sensitive manner

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Cultural skills

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engaging in face- to-face cultural interactions with persons from diverse backgrounds, and learning to modify one’s existing beliefs and prevent possible stereotyping

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Cultural encounters

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What model is predicated on the concept of holistic health and describes what people do from a traditional perspective to maintain, protect, and restore health.

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HEALTH TRADITIONS MODEL

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refers to those customs, beliefs, or practices that have existed for many generations without changing.

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Traditional

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includes all physical aspects, such as genetic inheritance, body chemistry, gender, age, nutrition, and physical condition

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Body

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cognitive processes, such as thoughts, memories, and knowledge of such emotional processes as feelings, defenses, and self-esteem.

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Mind

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both positive and negative learned spiritual practices and teachings, dreams, symbols, stories, protecting forces, and metaphysical or native forces.

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Spirit

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represent traditional foods that may be eaten daily to maintain physical HEALTH (China).

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Thousand-year-old eggs

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represents a way of maintaining spiritual HEALTH (East Jerusalem).

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Islamic prayer

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worn to protect physical HEALTH (Tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem, Israel).

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Red string

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may be worn or hung in the home to protect the mental HEALTH of people by shielding them from the envy and bad wishes of others (Cuba).

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The eye represents the plethora of eye- related objects

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may be worn for spiritual protection and good luck (Hopi Nation).

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Thunderbird

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represents aromatic plants that may be used by people from all ethnocultural traditional backgrounds as one method of restoring physical HEALTH (Africa).

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Herbal remedy

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represents substances that are used in massage therapy as a way of restoring mental HEALTH (Singapore).

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Tigerbalm

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symbolize prayer and meditation methods used in the spiritual restoration of HEALTH (Italy).

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Rosary beads.

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What are the three commonly held views of health beliefs

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magico- religious, scientific, and holistic.

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health and illness are controlled by supernatural forces. The client may believe that illness is the result of “being bad” or opposing the creator(s)’ will.

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magico-religious health belief view

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based on the belief that life is controlled by physical and biochemical processes that can be manipulated by humans. The client with this view will believe that illness is caused by germs, viruses, bacteria, or a breakdown of the body.

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scientific or biomedical health belief

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holds that the forces of nature must be maintained in balance or harmony. Human life is one aspect of nature that must be in harmony with the rest of nature. When the natural balance or harmony is disturbed, illness results

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holistic health belief

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considered the basic unit of society

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Family

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obvious cultural difference is in verbal communication

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vocabulary, grammatical structure, voice qualities, intonation, rhythm, speed, pronunciation, and silence.

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converts written material (such as client education pamphlets) from one language into another.

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Translator

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able to transform the message expressed in a spoken or signed source language into its equivalent in a target language, so that the interpreted message has the potential of eliciting the same response in the listener as the original message.

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Interpreter

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serve as a cultural broker and engage both provider and client effectively and efficiently in accessing the nuances and hidden socio- cultural assumptions embedded in each other’s language

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Interpreter

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two aspects of nonverbal communication behaviors

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what nonverbal behaviors mean to the client and what specific nonverbal behaviors mean in the client’s culture.

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includes the use of silence, touch, eye movement, facial expressions, and body posture.

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Nonverbal communication

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relative concept that includes the individual, the body, the surrounding environment, and objects within that environment.

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Space

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refers to an individual’s focus on the past, the present, or the future. Most cultures include all three time orientations, but one orientation is more likely to dominate.

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Time orientation

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Most cultures have staple foods that are plentiful or readily accessible in the environment. For example, the staple food of Asians is usually rice; and of Europeans it may be wheat or pasta.

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Nutritional patterns

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Two quick assessment tools to better understand the client’s perspective.

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LEARN model and the 4 C’s

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Elaborate the four c’s

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What do you call your problem?, What do you think caused your problem? How do you cope with your condition? What are your concerns regarding the condition and/or recommended treatment?