Culture, oppression

Question 1

Define cultural safety

Answer 1

involves understanding and naming power and privileges in the therapeutic relationship. Grounding in critical social science perspective where structural, systemic processes like oppression and colonialism are explicitly discussed.

Question 2

Define cultural competence

Answer 2

seen as a way to address culturally specific health needs

Integrates the knowledge, attitudes, and skills that nurses would use in order to plan effective and appropriate interventions

Three dimensions:
- awareness (having knowledge of cultural similarities and differences combined with self-reflection)

• attitudes (sensitivity, openness, being non judgemental, and respecting differences)

behaviors, which require creativity while providing care through a cultural lens.

Question 3

What is cultural humility?

Answer 3

Process of self-reflection where health care providers make a commitment to understand their personal and systemic biases through education and reflection, and to maintain respectful processes and relationships based on mutual trust

Question 4

What are the 5 components of cultural attunement?

Answer 4

• Acknowledging the pain of oppression
• Engaging in acts of humility
• Acting with reverence
• Engaging in mutuality
• Maintaining a position of “not knowing”

Question 5

Define cultural attunement

Answer 5

Expands beyond competency, ethnicity, or culture.
- deep awareness of self, deep listening, way of being in relation to the ‘other’

truly having the desire to learn, be curious, humble, reverent, acknowledgment of history and oppression

Question 6

What is the order of the cycle of oppression?

Answer 6

• biased information
• stereotype
• prejudice
• discrimination
• oppression