Med surg 1 Flashcards
Cultural competence
Having an awareness of ones own culture and not letting it. Have an undue influence over another person’s culture. Having the knowledge and skills about a culture that are required to provide care
Evaluation
The judgement of anything. The last step of nursing process
Cultural assimilation
When a new member takes on dominant cultural values beliefs and practices
Nursing process
Organizing framework that links the process of thinking with actions in nursing practice.
Auscultation
Process for listening for sounds within the body, usually sounds of thoracic or abdominal viscera to detect abnormalities
Cultural conflict
When ones culture conflicts with the new one
Inspection
Use of.observation skills to systematically gather data that can be seen
Maslow
Commonly used system that can be used as a basis for.determining priorities
NANDA
North America nursing diagnosis association
Assessment
An evaluation of a patients consition
Ethnocentrism
The tendency to think that ones own ways of thinking believing and acting are the only right ways
Cultural sensitivity
Being aware of and sensitive to cultural differences
Palpation
Use of fingers and hands to feel something
Cultural diversity
Nationality race skin color
Critical thinking
The use of those cognitive (knowledge ) skills or strategies that increase the probability of a desirable outcome