Test 5: Culture Diversity Flashcards
Def: Defined as the coexistence of different ethnic, biological sex, racial & socioeconomic groups within one unit
Cultural Diversity
Def: Enables nurses to deliver services that are respectful of health beliefs, practices & linguistic needs of diverse patients
Cultural Respect
Def: Shared system beliefs, values & behavioral expectations for daily living
Culture
Def: Large group of people who are members of the larger cultural group but have different ethnic, occupational or physical characteristics that are not common to the larger culture
Subculture
Def: Minority group lives within dominant group losing cultural characteristics that once made them different and take on values of dominant culture
Cultural Assimilation
Def: Person may experience this when placed in a different culture he/she perceives as strange
Culture Shock
Def: Sense of identification with a collective cultural group
Ethnicity
Def: When one assumes all members of a culture or race act the same
Stereotyping
Def: The belief that everyone else should conform to your own belief system
Cultural Imposition
Def: When one ignores differences and proceeds as though they do not exist
Cultural Blindness
Def: Occurs when people become aware of cultural differences, feel threatened & respond by ridiculing the beliefs
Culture Conflict
Def: Ability of caregivers & organizations to understand & respond to the linguistic needs of patients during an encounter
Linguistic Competence
Def: Culturally respectful nursing care in a way that is sensitive to needs of individual
Cultural Competence
Def: Belief that ideas & practices of one own culture are superior
Ethnocentrism
Def: How professional nurses interact with the concept of culture
Transcultural Nursing
