Culture Flashcards
What is culture?
The learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs, norms and life ways of a group that guides their thinking, decisions, and actions in patterned ways
What is emic knowledge?
An insider’s viewpoint if a culture
What is etic knowledge?
An outsider’s viewpoint of a culture
What is cultural competence?
Ability to use effective nursing care with emic and etic knowledge
What are health disparities?
Healthcare outcomes that differ among populations and groups of people
Health equity and health equality are used to avoid/combat what?
Health desparities
What is health equity?
He valuing of all people equally regardless of group/ population
What is health equality?
The distribution of the same resources and opportunities to all people within a population
What is Leininger’s Sunrise Enabler?
It’s a visual portrayal of elements within leininger’s theory
What is Leininger’s Sunrise Enabler used for?
To assist healthcare personnel with providing quality cultural care
Leininger’s Sunrise Enabler is divided into how many categories?
5
What are the elements of Leininger’s Sunrise Enabler?
Technological factors
Religious, spiritual, and philosophical factors
Kinship + social factors
Cultural values, beliefs, and lifeways
Biological factors
Political + legal factors
Economic factors
Educational factors
What are the 3 modes of culturally competent care?
Cultural care preservation + maintenance
Cultural care accommodation and/or negotiation
Cultural care repatterining + reconstructing
