S1_L2: Cultural Competence Flashcards
Culture as a process of automatically providing culturally congruent care to patients of diverse culture.
Unconscious competence
Culture as a process of learning about the patient’s culture, verifying generalizations about the patient’s culture, providing culturally specific interventions.
Conscious competence
Culture as a process of unawareness of one’s lack of knowledge about another culture.
Unconscious incompetence
Culture as a process of awareness of one’s lack of knowledge about another culture.
Conscious incompetence
An oversimplified conception, opinion, or belief about some aspect of an individual or group of people.
Stereotyping
Preconceived opinions that are not based on reason or actual experience.
Prejudice
It is the practice of extending the policies and practices of one group (usually the dominant one) to disenfranchised and minority groups.
Cultural Imperialism
It is the belief that the behaviors and practices of people should be judged only from the context of their own cultural system.
Cultural Relativism
Enumerate the 12 cultural domains of the Purnell Model
- Overview
- Communication
- Family Roles and Organization
- Workforce Issues
- Biocultural Ecology
- High-risk Behaviors
- Nutrition
- Pregnancy and Childbearing Practices
- Death Rituals
- Spirituality
- Healthcare Practices
- Healthcare Practitioner Concepts
It is a holistic, organizing framework that can aid health care professionals in assessing the cultural values, beliefs, behaviors, and healthcare practices of patients.
Purnell Model
- More centered towards the healthcare professional
- Healthcare professional continually strives to achieve the ability and availability to effectively work within the cultural context of a client
A. Purnell Model
B. Campinha-Bacote Model
C. Both
D. Neither
- B
- B
- Cultural competence is an ongoing journey of unremitting cultural encounters
- Focused/centered on the client & their characteristics
A. Purnell Model
B. Campinha-Bacote Model
C. Both
D. Neither
- B
- A
Enumerate the 5 constructs of the Campinha-Bacote Model
- Cultural desire
- Cultural awareness
- Cultural knowledge
- Cultural skill
- Cultural encounters
Elements of cultural competence:
1. Resist ___ attitudes
2. Adapt care to be ___ with clients’ culture
- judgmental
- congruent
Elements of cultural competence:
1. ___ in cultural encounters
2. Develop awareness of one’s own culture without having ___ from other backgrounds
- Comfort
- undue influence
Elements of cultural competence:
1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of client’s ___, health-related needs and meanings of health and illness
2. Accept and respect cultural ___
- culture
- differences
Elements of cultural competence:
1. Do not assume that healthcare providers’ beliefs are the ___ as the clients’
2. ___ to cultural encounters
- same
- Openness
A form of prejudice wherein a race is judged against their general characteristic without actual reason or experience.
Racism
TRUE OR FALSE: Negative behaviors in culture are common if we are unfamiliar of a culture.
True
Characteristics of culture
- Political beliefs
- Nationality
- Socioeconomic status
A. Primary characteristic
B. Secondary characteristic
- B
- A
- B
Characteristics of culture
- Religious affiliation
- Residence (Urban vs rural)
- Age
A. Primary characteristic
B. Secondary characteristic
- A
- B
- A
Characteristics of culture
- Marital status
- Race, color
- Sexual orientation
A. Primary characteristic
B. Secondary characteristic
- B
- A
- B
Characteristics of culture
- Gender
- Occupation, military experiences
- Educational status
A. Primary characteristic
B. Secondary characteristic
- A
- B
- B
Characteristics of culture
- Physical characteristics
- Length of time away from the country of origin
- Gender issues
A. Primary characteristic
B. Secondary characteristic
- B
- B
- B
Characteristics of culture
- It represents the whole of a people
- Parental status
- Reason for migration
A. Primary characteristic
B. Secondary characteristic
- A
- B
- B
Characteristics of culture
- Similar to nonmodifiable factors
- May change throughout one’s lifetime/lifespan
- Largely unchangeable except for religion
A. Primary characteristic
B. Secondary characteristic
- A
- B
- A
Characteristics of culture
- Represents what one generally regards as culture
- Encompasses life’s circumstances and environment as one grows and develops
- Shapes one’s worldview from an early age
A. Primary characteristic
B. Secondary characteristic
- A
- B
- A
TRUE OR FALSE: Culture affects health not just in entirety, but also up to a microscopic level.
True