Week 2 Exam 1 bias Flashcards
Define caring
Caring is displaying kindness or concern towards others.
Caring is the work or practice of looking after those unable to care for themselves, especially sick and elderly people.
Know that you have a bias and how to address them
Define Ethnicity-
Groups who share common social and cultural heritages
What is race?
Race identifies someone by traits such as skin color, blood type, and bone structure.
What is culture?
Culture is a concept that includes social norms, behaviors and beliefs by a group of people. It includes attitudes, beliefs, values, and customs.
How does culture affect health?
-personal Values:
-Belief:
-Traditional and -Alternative Healing: Folk medicine,
-holistic healthcare
-Dealing with pain
-Seeking healthcare
-Trusting healthcare -providers and hospitals
What is socioeconomic Status
Economic Instability
Unisuranced patients
What is health literacy?
Can patients or do they know what they need to be healthy?
What is cultural competence?
Cultural Competence is the ability to effectively incorporate culture into the provision of care, so as to show respect and accept differences in decision making.
What is a bias?
Bias occurs when a person has an inclination against or in favor of something.
What is implicit bias?
Implicit Bias refers to the automatic beliefs and assumptions we make based on our history, personal experiences, and exposure to social messages through things like media and entertainment.
What is a microaggression?
are the everyday slights, insults, putdowns, invalidations, and offensive behaviors that people experience in daily interactions with generally well-intentioned individuals who may be unaware that they have engaged in demeaning ways.
What is racial microinvalidations?
Racial microinvalidations excludes, negates,or nullifies a personof color’s reality.
What are sterotypes?
a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
Judaism: What nurse needs to know
Judaism: Foundation on which Christianity and Islam were built
Celebrate Yom Kippur: includes fasting
Nurse needs to consider: food, meds, insulin…ask patient.
Kosher Foods: Maybe no meat and diary, ask patient
Orthodox Jewish people do not traditionally believe in organ transplant.
Christianity: What the nurse needs to know
- Christianity: One God, Old and New Testament Bible
- Many other denominations: Roman Catholicism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, Seventh Day Adventism
Baptism - Some abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent and some abstain from alcohol. Some fast for the day.
- Traditional Catholics maynot believe in contraception or sterilization.
- Mormons typically prohibit alcohol, coffee, tea, and tobacco.
7.Adventist believe in contraception among married couples and abortion may be acceptable in the case of rape or incest.
EXAM: 5. Jehovah’s Witnesses may not accept blood transfusion.
Islam/muslim
Muslims may not believe in organ transplantation.May or may not accept blood transfusions.
May not eat pork.
Ramadan: Muslims traditionally fast between sunrise and sunset. Essential medications allowed during hours for most.
What about insulin? Is made from pig sometimes
Hinduism
Mnay gods. May have a prayer cloth, don’t remove.
May not eat beef. Consume milk. no eggs.
Buddhism
May eat vegetarian diet but may include eggs and milk.
May accept contraception – condemn abortion
May accept blood transfusions.
Reflect and Know Yourself
Be a nurse who knows her bias
Nursing Process- ADPIE
Physical assessment – Pain is expressed differently by everyone. Culture can affect this experience.
Exam Questions
-Jehovah- no blood transfusions
-be aware of own bias
-Use an interperter- no apps, nurse friend, no phone.
-Khoser food- cant eat certain animals, pork ect.
Muslim celebrate-Ramadan- no pork
