Culture and Diversity Flashcards
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What is Culture?
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- Learned from other people, learned over a period of time
- Shared by people, shared unequally among its members
- Diverse, dynamic, implicit, not easily described
- stabilizing, ethnocentric, ritualistic, recognizable in patterns
2
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Culture Shock
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The acute experience of not comprehending the culture in which one is situated
3
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Key Informant
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- People who know certain aspects of their culture better than others and willing to share their view
- Nurses are informants to family members
4
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T/F: Each member of a culture is different in numerous ways?
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True
-In the culture of nursing, individuals belong to other cultures
5
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Diversity
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- Allows a level of playing field that prevents one culture from dominating the environment
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Ethnicity/ Ethnic identity
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- A self concious, past orientated form of identity based on a notion of shared cultural and perhaps ancestral heritage and current position within the larger society.
- A cluster of ways for people to define themselves and be defined by others
- Selection of shared cultural characteristics as symbols of a common, origin, history, or descent
7
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Race
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- is considered biological traits
- Ethnicity is social traits
8
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Institutional Racism
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Leads to racial and ethnic health disparities
9
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Consequences for victims of racism and discrimination
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- increased stress, incidence of chronic conditions, incidence of mental health conditions, and decreased quality of life
