PPD Flashcards
what is diversity education?
understanding ourselves!
What is the goal of cross cultural education?
understand how culture influences our thoughts, perceptions, biases and values
Why is diversity education important?
- reduce health inequalities
- enhance all doctor patient encounters
- improves patient safety
- develop professionalism
- better health outcomes for patients
What are the challenges that diversity present in healthcare?
- effortful
- assumptions more likely to be wrong
- humour/rapport
- language
- different expectations for roles for doctor and patient
- different explanatory models
Name 2 explanatory models of illness
- hellmans folk model
2. Kleinmans model
Describe hellmans folk explanatory model of illness
what has happened? why has it happened? why has it happened to me? why now? what would happen if nothing were done? what should i do?
Describe kleinmans explanatory model of illness
- what do you think has caused the problem?
- why do you think it started when it did?
- what do you think the sickness does?
- how severe is the sickness?
- what kind of treatment do you think i should receive
- what are the chief problems this sickness causes
- what do you fear most about this sickness
Define culture
socially transmitted patterns of shared meanings by which people communicate, perpetuate and develop their knowledge and attitudes about life
Define individual culture
an individuals identity may be based on their heritage as well as individual circumstances and personal choice - DYNAMIC ENTITY
Define ethnocentrism
the tendency to evaluate other groups according to the values and standards of ones own cultural groups, especially with the conviction that ones own cultural group is superior to the other group
Define medical ethnocentrism
the belief that health care providers, educated and socialised within a bio-medical contact, have a superior value system and correct, accurate approach to health care
What are the negative consequences of medical ethnocentrism?
- patient refusal to communicate his/her beliefs and behaviours for fear of negative reaction
- significant info for patient care not obtained
- health care provider may use his/her own beliefs only and be totally incorrect
Define stereotype
involve generalisations about the typical characteristics of members of a group
Define prejudice
attitude towards another person based solely on their membership of a group
Define discrimination
actual positive or negative actions towards the object of prejudice
Explain Hofstedes cultural dimensions theory
a framework for cross-cultural communication
describes the effects of a society culture on the values of its members and how these values relate to behaviour
uses a structure derived from facto analysis
Define epigenetics
how our genetic predisposition can be altered depending on our life experiences
Define “discipline of patient safety”
the coordinated efforts to prevent harm, caused by the process of healthcare itself,
List the human factors that can risk patients safety
loss of situational awareness perception and cognition team work - no clear leader culture - hierarchy of the team lack of resources distraction pressure/stress fatigue lack of knowledge lack of communication
List the red flags of evolving error chains
conflicting information broken communication confusion/ uncertainties missing information/ incomplete debrief not following standard procedures unease/fear/ denial
What is the conformity problem?
it is more common for people to move towards working in ways that they know to be wrong or that break the rules if greater the benefits and lower the likely consequences
over time these ways become normalised and integrated into culture
“this is how we do it here”
List the 3 leadership styles
- Transactional
- transformational
- delegative “laissex faire”
Describe transactional leadership
the leader taps into his followers higher needs and values, inspires them with new possibilities and raise their confidence
“ill do something for you, if you do something for me”
Describe transformational leadership
proactive, takes responsibility for oneself, for patients and for colleagues
provides support and recognition of others
raises moral and motivation
= F1 LEVEL LEADERSHIP!
describe delegative leadership
leaders are hands off and allow the group members to make the decisions