NSG301 Cultural & Spiritual Nursing Care Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering key cultural, caring, and spiritual concepts in nursing care based on NSG301 lecture notes.

Culture

The learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs, norms, and lifeways of a particular group that guides their thinking, decisions, and actions in patterned ways.

Cultural Competence

The ability to effectively incorporate culture into the provision of care, so as to show respect, accept differences, and empower decision making.

Health Disparities

Health outcomes that may be greater or lesser among different socioeconomic populations.

Vulnerable Populations

Groups of people at higher risk for poor outcomes from barriers to social, economic, and environmental resources, including limitations due to illness or disability.

Caring

The act of nurturing another person to whom one feels commitment or responsibility, characterized by key traits such as kindness, concern, and empathy.

Watson's Theory of Human Caring

A nursing theory centered on caring moments, human-to-human connection, and transpersonal caring, with the goal of assisting the client in achieving harmony among mind, body, and spirit.

Swanson's Theory of Caring

A nursing theory that views caring as a process that aids the nurse in promoting client empowerment, respect, and dignity.

Categories of Swanson's Caring Theory

The five process categories of caring in Swanson's theory: Maintaining belief, Knowing, Being with, Doing for, and Enabling.

Culturally Competent Care Components

The five core elements required for culturally competent care: Cultural awareness, Cultural knowledge, Cultural skill, Cultural encounters, and Cultural desire.

Ways to Validate Client Preferences

Three nursing strategies used to validate client preferences: Endorse participation, Promote client understanding, and Share information.

Equality vs. Equity

Equality provides identical resources to all individuals regardless of need, whereas equity customizes resource distribution based on individual needs to achieve equal opportunity and outcomes.

Caring Behaviors

Specific nursing actions that demonstrate care, including compassionate care, providing comfort, being present, touch, and listening.

Spiritual Assessment Tools

Standardized assessment tools used by nurses to gather information regarding a client's spiritual beliefs, including FICA, HOPE, and SPIRIT.

Barriers to Culturally Competent Care

Obstacles to providing culturally competent care, including biases, ethnocentrism, cultural stereotyping (prejudice and discrimination), racism, language barriers, healthcare jargon, cultural incompetence, and conflicting religious and political views.

Barriers to Spiritual Care

Obstacles nurses face when addressing spirituality, including lack of general awareness of spirituality, lack of awareness of one's own spiritual belief system, belief differences, fear of an insufficient knowledge base, and fear of where spiritual discussion will lead.

Generational Cohorts in Client Assessment

Age groups considered when evaluating client background and preferences: Silent Generation, Baby Boomer, Generation X, Generation Y, Generation Z/Post-Millennial, and Generation Alpha.

Major Religion Care Factors

Key healthcare considerations across major religions, including beliefs and practices regarding blood transfusions, health and reproductive practices, dietary practices, and modesty.