Unit 1 (Culture and Diversity) Flashcards

Cultural assimilation

A minority group that lives within a dominant group begins to take on the values of the dominant group.

Cultural blindness

When one ignores the differences in culture and acts like they do not exist.

Cultural competence

The ability to distinguish your own culture from that of others and respecting cultural differences to provide comfortable and adequate care.

Cultural diversity

The coexistence of different ethnic, sex, racial, and socioeconomic groups within one social unit.

Cultural imposition

The belief that everyone else should conform to your belief system.

Cultural respect

Enables nurses to deliver services that are respectful and responsive to the beliefs and practices of diverse patients.

Culturally competent care

Care is planned and implemented in a way that is sensitive to the needs of individuals, families, and groups from diverse populations within society.

Culture

A shared system of beliefs, values, and behavioral expectations that provides social structure for daily living.

Culture conflict

Occurs when people become aware of cultural differences, feel threatened, and respond by ridiculing the beliefs and traditions of others to make themselves feel more secure about their own values.

Culture shock

Psychological discomfort or disturbance due to the patterns of behavior a person found acceptable and effective in their own culture may not be adequate or acceptable in the new culture.

Ethnicity

A sense of identification with a collective cultural group, largely based on group members’ common heritage.

Ethnocentrism

The belief that ideas, beliefs, and practices of one’s own culture are superior to those of another’s culture.

Cultural imposition

Tendency for health personnel to impose their beliefs or practices on people of other cultures.

Implicit bias

Holding attitudes and stereotypes to people without our conscious knowledge.

Intersectionality

How various social and political identities such as gender, race, and sexuality, intersect to create unique combinations of discrimination and privilege.

Linguistic competence

The ability of caregivers and organizations to understand and effectively respond to the linguistic needs of patients and their families in a health care encounter.

Subculture

A large group of people who are members of the larger cultural group but who have certain ethnic, occupational, or physical characteristics that are not common to the larger culture.

Transcultural nursing

A specialty and a formal area of practice, originated from work by Dr. Leininger. Her Theory of Cultural Care Diversity and Universality provide the foundation for providing culturally respectful care for patients of all ages, as well as families, groups, and communities.

Acculturative stress

Describes acculturation or adaptation to a new cultural environment. The acculturation process affects values, behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, language, and much more.

Cultural relativism

The belief that the behaviors and practices of people should be judged only from the context of their cultural system.

Culture-bound syndromes

Conditions that are perceived to exist in various cultures and occur as a combination of psychiatric or psychological and physical symptoms.

Biocultural ecology

Refers to the client’s physical, biologic, and physiologic variations, such as variations in drug metabolism, disease, and health conditions.

Heritage assessment

Based on the concept of acculturation and how consistent the client’s lifestyle is with the cultural group from which the client originates, or the traditional habits of the client’s family’s culture.

Healthy People 2030

The Healthy People initiatives identify important periodic goals that, if reached, could have major impacts on the health and overall well-being of people in the United States.

Leading health indicators (LHIs)

Goals outlined in the Healthy People 2020 initiative aimed to improve access to health services, environmental quality, use of preventive services, nutrition and physical activity, and to address social determinants of health, while decreasing rates of injury and violence, obesity, tobacco use, and substance abuse, among others.