Week 10-12 - Diversity in Healthcare

Question 1

Ethnocentrism

Answer 1

Evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture

Question 2

Cultural imposition

Answer 2

:A situation where one culture forces their values and beliefs onto another culture or subculture.

Question 3

Stereotypes

Answer 3

When one assumes that all people within a culture act, think, and behave in the same way.

Question 4

Discrimination

Answer 4

Unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the guards of race, age, or sex.

Question 5

Racism

Answer 5

Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized

Question 6

What is a barrier to indigenous healthcare?

Answer 6

lack of trust/belief in western healthcare

Question 7

Intentionally disinviting

Answer 7

Fully aware of inappropriate and harmful behaviour, cultural conflict will occur

Question 8

Unintentionally disinviting

Answer 8

Typically well-meaning people, behave innocently, actions are careless

Question 9

Unintentionally inviting

Answer 9

Happy and pleasant people, that are warm and approachable, but it stops there

Question 10

Intentionally inviting

Answer 10

These individuals embrace jean watsons quote from the previous slide

Question 11

Culture: According to the CNA

Answer 11

Shared pattern of learned values and behaviours that are transmitted over time and that distinguish members of one group from another

Question 12

What is included in culture?

Answer 12

language, ethnicity, spiritual and religious beliefs, socio-economical class, gender, sexual orientation, age, group history, geographic origin, education as well as childhood and life.

Question 13

Ethnicity

Answer 13

Share a social and cultural heritage, share a common identity e.g. Scottish, Vietnamese or Colombian

Question 14

Race

Answer 14

Common biological attributes shared by a group e.g. colour of one’s skin or hair

Question 15

Emic world view

Answer 15

Insider or native perspective about their culture

Question 16

Etic world view

Answer 16

Outsider perspective of the culture

Question 17

Assimilation

Answer 17

When people give up their ethnic identity in favour of the dominant culture

Question 18

Enculturation

Answer 18

Socialization into one’s primary culture during childhood

Question 19

Acculturation

Answer 19

The process of adapting to and adopting characteristics of a new culture

Question 20

Multiculturism/diversity

Answer 20

Celebrate differences, individual cultures are maintained and respected

Question 21

Legislation regarding diversity in Canada

Answer 21

1) Official language act (1969, updated 1988)
2) Canadian Constitution Act (1982)
3) Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982)
4) Canadian Multiculturalism Act (1988)

Question 22

What is the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms?

Answer 22

Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right
to equal protection and equal benefit of the law without
discrimination and in particular without discrimination based on
race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age, or mental or
physical disability.

Question 23

Global health

Answer 23

The optimal wellbeing of all humans from the individual and collective perspective and is considered a fundamental human right which should be accessible to all

Question 24

Global citizenship

Answer 24

commitment to act on social injustice and equity

Question 25

Cultural competence

Answer 25

Inclusivity, respect, valuing differences, equity, commitment

Question 26

CNO Culture assumptions

Answer 26

• Everyone has a culture
• Culture is individual
• Culture is influenced by many factors
• Culture is dynamic
• Reactions to culture are automatic and influence the nurse-client relationship
• The values of our profession are upheld by all nurses
• Cultural needs should always be assessed