Health Beliefs & Practices-ch18: Culturally Responsive Nursing Care

Question 1

the process by which an individual develops a new cultural identity and becomes like the members of the dominant culture

Answer 1

Assimilation

Question 2

used to describe a person who crosses two cultures, lifestyles, and sets of values

Answer 2

Bicultural

Question 3

within the delivered care the nurse understands and attend to the total context of the client’s situation and uses a complex combination of knowledge, attitudes, and skills

Answer 3

Culturally competent

Question 4

the differential treatment of individuals or groups

Answer 4

Discrimination

Question 5

the fact or state of being different

Answer 5

Diversity

Question 6

the belief that one’s own culture or way of life is better than that of others

Answer 6

Ethnocentrism

Question 7

beliefs and practices relating to illness prevention and healing that derive from cultural traditions rather than from modern medicine’s scientific base

Answer 7

Folk Medicine

Question 8

the degree to which one’s lifestyle reflects his or her respective tribal culture

Answer 8

Heritage consistency

Question 9

the observance of the beliefs and practices of one’s acculturated belief system

Answer 9

Heritage inconsistency

Question 10

holds that the forces of nature must be maintained in balance or harmony

Answer 10

Holistic health belief

Question 11

an individual who mediates spoken communication between people speaking different languages without adding, omitting, or distorting meaning or editorializing

Answer 11

Interpreter

Question 12

a belief system in which people attribute the fate of the world and those in it to the actions of God, the gods, or other supernatural forces for good and evil

Answer 12

magico-religious health belief

Question 13

a negative belief or preference that is generalized about a group and that leads to ‘prejudgment’

Answer 13

Prejudice

Question 14

classification of people according to shared biologic characteristics and physical features

Answer 14

Race

Question 15

an organized system of worship

Answer 15

Religion

Question 16

based on the belief that life and life processes are controlled by physical and biochemical processes that can be manipulated by humans.

Answer 16

Scientific Health Beliefs

Biomedical Health Beliefs

Question 17

assuming that all members of a culture or ethnic group are alike

Answer 17

Stereotyping

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Subculture

Question 19

observance of the beliefs and practices of one’s heritage or cultural belief system

Answer 19

Traditional

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Transcultural Nursing

Question 21

a person who converts written material (such as client education pamphlets) from one language into another

Answer 21

Translator

Question 22

the involuntary process that occurs when people adapt to or borrow traits from another culture

Answer 22

Acculturation