Population Nursing Exam 1

Cultural safety

is the ideal of considering cultural aspects of groups while working for social justice, against assimilation and repression. 

Ethnocentrism

can be defined as an assumption that everyone shares your cultural values, or an opinion that your culture is superior to others. 

Subcultures:

or smaller subgroups of a larger society, have characteristics in common that may impact health beliefs or practices. 

Cross-cultural nursing

Any nursing encounter in which the client and nurse are from different cultures. 

Cultural awareness:

Cognizance of one’s own cultural values and biases. 

Cultural competence:

The understanding that culture influences ideas about health and illness, and using those ideas to promote wellness for patients. 

Cultural humility:

Ongoing process of openness toward and respectful curiosity about others’ cultural values and practices while practicing self-reflection and acknowledgment of one’s own biases. 

Cultural safety

Culturally appropriate health services to marginalized groups while stressing dignity and avoiding institutional racism, assimilation (forcing people to adopt a dominant culture), and repressive practices. 

Cultural awareness

is an introspection of and understanding that our worldviews, beliefs, practices, and assumptions are influenced by our cultural backgrounds. 

Cultural competence

is an attitude of openness to, respect for, and curiosity about different cultural values and traditions, and ideally includes a broader critical analysis of power relations affecting health disparities. 

Cultural humility

requires ongoing self-reflection of one’s own biases, a respectful attitude toward others’ worldviews, and a rejection of ethnocentrism. 

Public Health Core Functions 

• Assessment: Collection of data – observing (smoking rates, pollution, testing local h20 – surveys) 

• Policy Development: Process of implementing something – car seat policy, fencing for pools due to drowning 

• Assurance: What are you going to do about it?