NUR 101 Chapter 14
- Develop a beginning understanding of transcultural nursing.
Answer Leininger de- scribed it as nursing care that recognizes cultural diversity and is sensitive to the cultural needs of the patient and family.
- What are the four distinguishing features of culture?
- Culture is learned and acquired
Answer
- Culture is shared
- Culture is incorporated in individuals' identity
- Culture is dynamic
- Critically evaluate the effect of poverty on the quality and accessibility of health care.
Answer -More vulnerable to illness and diseases such as malnutrition and TB.
-Chronic conditions and disorders affecting them may become worse because they go untreated as a result of lack of resources.-Inadequate access to health care limits their ability to use preventative care services or seek care for acute illnesses.-The net result is that this group has much worse health status compared with the general population
- Identify the primary features of cultural copetence.
Answer Includes knowing your- self, examining your own values, attitudes, beliefs, and prejudices. It entails keeping an open mind and trying to see the world from different cultural perspectives.
- Identify the six major barriers to the development of cultural competence.- 1 / 2
Answer
Stereotyping, prejudice and racism, ethnocentrism, cultural imposition, cultural conflict, and cultural shock.
- Stereotyping
Answer applying certain beliefs and behaviors about a culture to an individual or group without assessing individual needs.
- Generalizations
Answer identify common trends, patterns, and beliefs of a group.
- Prejudice
Answer an emotional manifestation of negative stereotypes and deeply help beliefs about a group.
- Racism
Answer A form of prejudice that takes place when individuals, groups, and/or institutions exercise power against groups that are judged inferior.
- Cultural Imposition
Answer the act of imposing one's cultural beliefs, values, and practices on individuals from another culture
- Agnostic
Answer person who doubts the existence of God because it cannot be proved or disproved.
- identify signs of spiritual distress in a patient.
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