Lecture 11 - Cultural Diversity and Safety in Care Flashcards
What is intersectionality?
A theoretical model to describe how oppression can be created. Intersecting identities’ contribute to one’s lived experience but can also create enhances oppression that influence one’s health and wellbeing
What is culture?
The learned values, beliefs, norms, and way of life that influence an individuals thinking, decisions, and actions in certain ways
What is cultural relativism?
Fostering an awareness and appreciation of cultural differences, and rejects the assumptions of superiority of one’s culture and averts ethnocentrism
What is cultural imposition?
Using one’s own values to guide understanding of others behaviours and provisions of services.
What is cultural safety and humility? Developing it requires what?
An outcome of nursing education that enables safe service to be defined by those who receive it.
Requires engagement and self-reflection
How does the CNO code of conduct speak on culturally safe care?
Principle two on the CNO code of conduct states that nurses must provide inclusive and culturally safe care by practicing cultural humility.
What is the Daniel Decision?
In 2016, the supreme court rules in favour of non-status Indians and Metis individuals to be recognized in the Indian Act
What are the three statuses included under the Indian Act?
Status, non-Status, and Treaty Indians
–> The legal term can be used to encompass all Indigenous peoples in Canada who are not Inuit
What are the seven grandfather teachings?
Wisdom, love, respect, bravery, honesty, humility, and truth.
What is a settler ally?
Someone who collectively considers how steps taken can advance the truth and reconciliation process
This can be done through:
–> Self-awareness, self-education, creation and open and supportive environment, and taking action
Indigenous health in tradition knowledge is recognized to be a balance between what four components?
Emotional, Physical, Spiritual, and mental.
