Session 6: Culteral Competence

Question 1

Aka: Transcultural care
- based on cultural beliefs, values, and practices

Answer 1

Culturally Congruent Care

Question 2

• nurses must address personal biases
• must be respectful/ responsive
• must case clinical care decisions on patient values

Answer 2

Aspects of Culturally Congruent Care

Question 3

▪ Unintentional biases can influence how we treat patients
▪ Well intentions and actual decisions/actions are often not congruent

Answer 3

Unconscious/ implicit bias

Question 4

• Imagining yourself in someone else’s position inhibits prejudice
• Partner with the patient to build and work toward shared goals
• Use words such as “We, Our, Us.”

Answer 4

Strategies to avoid implicit bias

Question 5

• Actively listen
• Respect and honor patient values and perspectives
• Stop yourself when realizing you are making judgements — ask yourself from where these thoughts may have originated.

Answer 5

Strategies to avoid Implicit Bias

Question 6

An assumed belief regarding a person or group

Answer 6

Stereotype

Question 7

a set of assumptions that begins in childhood. Evolution happens throughout a lifetime based on experiences, interactions, and relationships.

▪ Guides how we see, think about, experience and 	interpret the world
▪ Requires ongoing assessment, flexibility, and 	planning in partnership with each patient

Answer 7

World View

Question 8

culturally competent care is care that is _____ & _____.

Answer 8

Sensitive & appropriate

Question 9

Culturally competent care needs the ______ needs of ____.

Answer 9

Multifaceted, everyone

Question 10

What are the 4 parts of cultural competence?

Answer 10

Cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural encounters, cultural desire

Question 11

a self-examination of one’s own biases toward other cultures and an in-depth exploration of one’s own cultural and professional background.

Answer 11

Cultural awareness

Question 12

seeking and obtaining an educational base about culturally diverse groups

Answer 12

Cultural knowledge

Question 13

process that encourages face to face cultural interactions with patients from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Answer 13

Cultural encounters

Question 14

motivation to “want to” engage in the process of being culturally aware

Answer 14

Cultural desire

Question 15

— Ethnicity, diet preferences, social organization, religious/spiritual beliefs
— communication patterns, time orientation, caring beliefs and practices
— experiences with professional healthcare

Answer 15

Selected components of Cultural Assessment

Question 16

▪ Health, illness, and caring have meanings that are unique to each culture.
▪ Every culture provides a context according to which groups interpret and define experiences relevant to birth, illness, and death.

Answer 16

Cultural Context of Health and Caring

Question 17

The biomedical orientation of ________ cultures emphasizes scientific investigation.

Answer 17

Western

Question 18

__________ cultures emphasize a holistic conceptualization of health and illness.

Answer 18

Non-Western

Question 19

▪ Cultural care preservation or maintenance
▪ Cultural care accommodation or negotiation
▪ Cultural care re-patterning or restructuring as needed within safe guidelines

Answer 19

Nursing Goals of Culturally Sensitive Care