Week 12 Flashcards
Culture
Learned or shared values and beliefs to a person or group that guides their thinking and patterns of life
Culture is….
Learned and social constructed
Culture characteristics include:
Learned
Shared
Patterned
Mutually constructed
Symbolic
Arbitrary (ex. Beauty standard)
Internalized
From cultural awareness to cultural safety (4 steps)
Cultural awareness
Cultural sensitivity
Cultural competence
Cultural safety
Cultural awareness
Understanding there is a difference
Cultural sensitivity
Respecting difference
Cultural competence
Required skills, knowledge and attitudes required to meet the needs of others
Cultural safety
Safe service defined by those receiving it
Culturally competent care…
Reflects and understanding of the clients perspective related to their health as a reflection of their values and beliefs
A culturally safe approach requires…
Healthcare professionals to reflect on how health care policies and practices may devalue certain populations
Organizational culture
Refers to the shared characteristics of members of a profession and workplace (values, beliefs, norms)
Ex
- communication methods
- priority
- codes of conduct
Unsafe cultural practice
Any action which demeans that cultural identity of people
Cultural humility
A process of self reflection to understand personal systemic biases and to develop and maintain respectful relationships.
From a relational practice perspective, nurses need to learn to…
Build respectful relationships
Promote social justice and equity when providing care
Components of building respectful relationships (5)
Self knowledge
Relational practice
Cultural knowledge
Critical societal knowledge
Contextual knowledge
Building respectful relationships: self knowledge
Self awareness of know personal location in society
Recognition for one’s cultural beliefs/values/norms related to health and wellbeing
Building respectful relationships: relational practice
Recognition of commonalities among humans
Adoption of inquiry, curiosity, openness to learn from clients
Watching a learning from clients
Components of promoting social justice and equity when providing care (2)
Socially responsible care
Action to redress injustice and inequity
Promote social justice and equity when providing care: social responsible care
Provision of socially inclusive care
Recognition of stereotypes, stigma, and unintentional systemic racism
Promote social justice and equity when providing care: action to redress injustice and inequity
Recognition of injustice and inequities affecting health
Advocacy and support for clients
Steps to developing culturally safe practice
- Self awareness
- Be aware of your own position of knowledge
- Explore you own thoughts and responses
- Develop postcolonial understanding of relationships between governments and groups
- Be aware of discriminatory assumptions
- Be aware of unequal power relationships
- remain open to diversity
- respect identity of others
- be interested in getting to know clients
- be open to other opinions
Cross cultural communication
Build awareness of differences in communication styles (verbal vs non verbal)
Building trust to empower
Stay attuned to tone and body language
