Lesson 3 Flashcards
________ is a concept that has emerged in response to the increasing diversity of clients in health care settings.
Transcultural Nursing
It is a framework that seeks to provide culturally sensitive care to individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Transcultural nursing
_________ recognizes that culture significantly shapes an individual’s health beliefs, behaviors, and practices.
Transcultural nursing
Latin derivation of terms TRANS meaning _____. INTER means between, and MULTI means many
across
________ is the blueprint that provides the broadest and most comprehensive means to know, explain, and predict people’s lifeway’s over time and in different geographic locations”
Culture
_______ influences a person’s definition of health and illness, including when it is appropriate to self-treat and when the illness is sufficiently serious to seek assistance from one or more healers outside of the immediate family.
Culture
________ describes the culture of people in a given geographic region, including their language, heritage, religion and customs.
Ethnicity
________ refers to the concept of dividing people into groups on the basis of various sets of physical characteristics and the process of ascribing social meaning to those groups.
• Race
Ethnicity is not equivalent to race, which is a biological identification. Rather, ethnicity includes commitment to and involvement in cultural customs and rituals - (_______, 2010)
(Douglas, 2010)
“_________” is linked with cultural expression and identification.
“Ethnicity”
“________” is usually associated with biology and linked with physical characteristics such as skin color or hair texture.
Race
__________ has its roots in the mid-1950s, when nursing pioneer __________ began considering the importance of culture as a variable affecting mental health
Transcultural nursing, Hildegard Peplau
History of Transcultural Nursing
_________ worked with Native American communities in the United States, observing the importance of cultural beliefs and practices in health care delivery.
Leininger
She established the first transcultural nursing program at the “University of Colorado” in 1974 to train nurses to provide culturally sensitive care to clients from diverse backgrounds
Madeleine Leininger
Nurse and anthropologist ____________, widely recognized as the founder of the field.
Madeleine Leininger
She began developing a concept she defined as “a comparative study and analysis of different cultures and subcultures in the world with respect to their caring behaviors, values, and beliefs about health, illness, and death”
Madeleine Leininger
