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What is ethnicity?

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Groups whose members share a social and cultural heritage.

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Objects that are worn for health protection are known as ___________?

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Amulets

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What is a minority?

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Mathematical percentage.

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What is immigration?

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A process where people enter another country.

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What is xenophobia?

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Morbid fear of strangers.

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What is discrimination?

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Denying people equal opportunity by acting on a prejudice.

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What are considered the challenges of immigration?

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Poverty, Language, and Food.

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Ethnocentrism is the root of:?

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Stereotypes, biases, and prejudices.

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In what year was the multicultural policy announced?

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1971

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T or F, Today, most federal multicultural programs focus on institutional change, race relations and citizen participation.

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True

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What is the importance of modern/allopathic philosophy?

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  • Health
  • Cure
  • Technology
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What is the importance of traditional/homeopathic philosophy?

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  • Health
  • Healing
  • Touch
  • Communication
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What are the categories of complementary alternative medicine?

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  • Alternative Medical Systems: homeopathic medicine
  • Mind-Body Interventions: patient support groups
  • Biologically Based Therapies: herbal products
  • Manipulative and Body-Based Methods: massage
  • Energy Therapies: reiki
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What are the traditional or ethno-cultural health cares?

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  1. Ayurvedic
  2. Curanderismo
  3. Qi gong
  4. Santeria
  5. Voodoo
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What are the reasons for using complementary alternative medicine?

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  • Dissatisfaction with modern medicine
  • Need for personal control
  • Philosophical congruence
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How would you survive?

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It is based on environments such as this that rituals evolved.

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What are the specific issues related to end-of-life care?

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  1. Advanced directives
  2. Organ donation
  3. Rituals surrounding funerals and mourning
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What is the ABC approach?

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  • Awareness
  • Bearing Witness
  • Comfort
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What can the ABC approach do?

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Promote knowledge and skills necessary to provide culturally competent end-of-life care.

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What is important in end-of-life care?

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Communication

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What is awareness?

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Refers to understanding how culture shapes the issues of concern.

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What is bearing witness?

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Represents “being with” clients and their family to share and understand the culture and health and illness-related issues.

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What is comfort?

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Involves promoting well-being and the need to meet the comfort needs of clients.

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The end-of-life care can be explored by the four “F’s”:

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  1. Feelings
  2. Family
  3. Faith
  4. Finality
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Whata are the 6 spiritual care explores for faith?

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  • Belief
  • Identity
  • Hope
  • Peace
  • Legacy
  • Reconciliation
25
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How does Bangladesh deal with death?

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-Muslim rites: body remains at home - cared for, washed, wrapped in white cloth.

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How does China deal with death?

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  • Initial burial in coffin; after 7 years, body exhumed and cremated, urn reburied in a tomb.
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How does Egypt deal with death?

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Muslim rites.

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How does Germany deal with death?

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  • Crying in public expected, cremation may be selected.
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How does Greece deal with death?

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  • May isolate dying person, withhold truth.
  • Person buried, exhumed in 5yrs and bones reburied in urn or vault
  • Death at home is important
  • Widow wears dark mourning cloths for rest of life
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How does Italy deal with death?

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  • Fatal diagnosis not discussed with patient and family
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How does Japan deal with death?

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  • Control public expression of grief
32
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How does Mexico deal with death?

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  • Family members stay with dying person around the clock
  • Grief may be expressive
  • “Day of the Dead” celebrated in November
33
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What is the duration of evil spirits?

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7 or 40 days

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What is the care of the dying?

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Ritual washing

35
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How do people prepare the grave?

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Storing food and water for post death journey

36
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What is the belief of most people?

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Ghost of the person could return and if not appeased, could harm surviving relatives.

37
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What are the different death related objects?

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Masks, bride and groom skeleton, candles, jade stone, and ghost money

38
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What are masks used for?

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to hide from “Angel of Death” or placed on the face of the deceased.

39
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What message does the bride and groom skeleton convey?

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That marriage is forever, even unto death

40
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What are candles used for?

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Used by many people after death as a way of lighting the way for the soul of the deceased.

41
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What is the Jade stone used for?

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From China, is placed in orifices of the body to block the entrance of the evil spirits after death.

42
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What is the ghost money used for?

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From China, is burned to send payments to a deceased person and to ensure his or her well-being in the afterlife.

43
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How many babies are born deaf yearly?

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4000-5000

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What are the elements within a deaf culture?

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  • Sign Language
  • Deaf Schools
  • Deaf Theatre
  • Journals, magazines, books, videos, TV
  • Organizational Groups
  • TTY’s (telephone typewriter), caption decoders, flashing alarms
45
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What are the technology that deaf people use?

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  • Hearing aids
  • Cochlear implants
  • TTY (telephone typewriter)
  • VRS: video relay service
46
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What are the technology for the blind?

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  • White cane
  • Braille
  • Light box
  • Slate & styles
  • Perkins Brailler
  • Adapter computers
  • Tape players
  • Dictation recorders
  • Books on Tape & CD
  • Remote control calculators
  • Talking microwaves
47
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What are the purposes of communication?

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  1. Gather information
  2. Build relationship
  3. Education
48
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What percentage of all communication is non-verbal?

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93%

49
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How far do you have to be to be in the intimate zone of a client?

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1 1/2 feet

50
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How far from the client do you have to be to be in his/her personal distance?

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1 1/2 - 4 feet

51
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How far do you have to be from the client for social distance?

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4 - 12 feet

52
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How far do you have to be from the client for public distance?

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12 feet or more

53
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What is the intimate zone?

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  • Allows adults bodily contact for perception of breath and odour
  • Visual distortions
54
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What is personal distance?

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  • “bubble” of space around the body, no visual distortion

- voice may be moderate, body odour not apparent

55
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What is social distance?

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  • reserved for impersonal business transactions
56
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What is public distance?

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  • impersonal interaction, voices projected, subtle facial expressions may be lost
57
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T or F- Studies show that pain threshold or tolerance levels vary within individuals, not based on culture or ethnicity.

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True

58
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What are the kinds of interpreters?

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  • Trained interpreters
  • Multilingual healthcare providers
  • Bilingual staff
  • Volunteers
  • Friends
  • Family members
59
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What are the different types of masks worn?

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  • African mask
  • American Indian mask
  • Mexican mask
60
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According to CAD, deaf people have the same rights as the general population. These include:

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  • Food, clothing, shelter
  • Dignity, respect
  • Quality education
  • Communication and information
  • Freedom and justice
  • Equality to access

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