Leininger Flashcards
What is her theory
Cultural diversity and universality theory
is a comparative study of cultures to understand similarities (culture universal) and difference (culture-specific) across human groups
Transcultural nursing
Set of values, beliefs and traditions, that are held by a specific group of people and handed down from generation to generation.
Culture
is primary through means of transmitting culture.
Language
Is a set of belief in a divine or super human power (or powers) to be obeyed and worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe.
Religion
refers to a group of people who share a common and distinctive culture and who are members of a specific group.
Ethnic
a consciousness of belonging to a group.
Ethnicity
the sense of being part of an ethnic group or culture
Cultural Identify
commonalities of values, norms of behavior, and life patterns that are similar among different cultures.
Culture Universals
values, beliefs, and patterns of behavior that tend to be unique to a designate culture.
Culture specifies
Refers to objects (dress, art, religious artifacts)
Material Culture
Refers to beliefs customs, languages, social institutions.
Non material Culture
composed of people who have a distinct identity but are related to a larger cultural group.
Sub culture
a person who crosses two cultures, lifestyles, and sets of values.
Bi cultural
refers to the fact or state of being different. Can occur between cultures and within a cultural group.
Diversity
People of a minority group tend to assume the attitudes, values, beliefs, find practices of the dominant society resulting in a blended cultural pattern.
Acculturation
the state of being disoriented or unable to respond to a different cultural environment because of its sudden strangeness, unfamiliarity, and incompatibility to the stranger’s perceptions and expectations at is differentiated from others by symbolic markers (cultures, biology, territory, religion).
Culture shock
share a common social and cultural heritage that is passed on to successive generations.,
Ethnic groups
refers to a subjective perspective of the person’s heritage and to a sense of belonging to a group that is distinguishable from other groups.
Ethnic identity
the classification of people according to shared biologic characteristics, genetic markers, or features. Not all people have the same culture.
Race
It is an in-depth self-examination of one’s own background, recognizing biases and prejudices and assumptions about other people.
Cultural Awareness
Care that fits the people’s valued life patterns and set of meanings -which is generated from the people themselves, rather than based on predetermined criteria.
Culturally congruent care
is the ability of the practitioner to bridge cultural gaps in caring, work with cultural differences and enable clients and families to achieve meaningful and supportive caring.
Culturally competent care
This is the study of nursing care beliefs values and practices as cognitively perceived and known by designated culture through their direct experience beliefs and value system
Ethnonursing