Med-Surg Nursing - 02
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- acculturation
- modification of one's own culture as a result of contact with another culture
- assimilation
- generally a one-way process where people lose their own cultural identity as they gradually adopt and incorporate characteristics of the prevailing culture
- cultural competence
- the complex integration of knowledge, attitudes, and skills that enable the nurse to provide culturally appropriate health care
- cultural imposition
- the result when one's own cultural beliefs and practices are imposed on another person or group of people
- culture
- the knowledge, values, beliefs, art, morals, laws, customs, and habits of the members of a society
- culture-bound syndrome
- illnesses or afflictions that are recognized within a cultural group
- ethnicity
- groups whose members share a common social and cultural heritage
- ethnocentrism
- the tendency to subconsciously view others using one's own customs as the standard
- explanatory models
- interpretations and meanings of symptoms through a person's cultural norms
- race
- divisions of humankind, more closely related to people who share a common ancestry and physical characteristics such as skin color, bone structure, or blood group
- stereotyping
- the viewing of members of a specific culture, race, or ethnic group as being alike and sharing the same values and beliefs
- subcultures
- small groups within a cultural group that may not hold all of the values of the dominant culture because of differences related to ethnic background, residence, religion, occupation, health-related characteristics, age, gender, education, or other factors that unite the groups
- transcultural nursing
- a specialty that focuses on the comparative study and analysis of cultures and subcultures; the goal is the discovery of culturally relevant facts that can guide the nurse in providing culturally appropriate and competent care
- values
- the sets of rules by which individuals, families, groups, and communities live