Chapter 2 Flashcards
(20 cards)
What is cultural and linguistic competence?
Cultural and linguistic competence is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system among professions that enable work in cross-cultural situations.
Why were the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care created?
The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care were created because immigration occurs at high levels and immigrants with limited english proficient (LEP) have particular needs.
What does the first and landmark statement from the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care state?
“Health care organizations should ensure that patients receive from all staff members effective, understandable, and respectful care that is provided in a manner compatible with their cultural health beliefs and practices and preferred languages.”
What are health disparities?
Health disparities are unusual and disproportionate frequency of a given health problem.
Discuss culturally sensitive care?
Being culturally sensitive means possessing the basic knowledge of and constructive attitude toward diverse cultural populations.
What does being cultural appropriate imply?
Culturally appropriate implies that the caregivers apply the underlying background knowledge that must be possessed to provide a given person with the best possible care.
What is cultural competence?
Culturally competent implies that the caregiver understands and attend to the total context of the individual’s situation, including awareness of immigration status, stress factors, other social factors, and cultural similarities and differences.
Describe heritage consistency.
Heritage Consistency is the degree to which a person’s lifestyle reflects his or her traditional heritage. Heritage consistency includes a determination of a person’s cultural, ethnic; religious background; socialization experiences.
Traditional: living within the norms of the traditional culture.
Modern: acculturated to the norms of the dominant society.
What is culture?
Culture is the thoughts, communications, actions, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic religious or social groups. The characteristics of culture include: learned, shared, adapted, and dynamic. Culture is a complex system that include knowledge, beliefs, and customs, of a group.
Describe ethnicity?
Ethnicity describes group united by common geographic origin, migratory status, religion, race, language, shared values, traditions, or symbols, and/or food preferences.
What is religion?
Religion is the belief in a divine or superhuman power or powers to be obeyed and worshipped as creator/rules of the universe. Religion is a system of beliefs, practices, and ethical values.
Define spirituality.
Spirituality is life experiences and personal effort to find purpose; meaning in life; pursuit to discover supreme being (God, Allah, Yahweh, Jehovah); unifying truth to render meaning, purpose; integrity to existence.
What is socialization?
Socialization is the process of being raised within a culture and acquiring the characteristics of that groups.
Define acculturation.
Acculturation is the process of adapting to acquiring another culture.
What are the differing view of epilepsy?
Uganda: contagious, untreatable
Greece: source of family shame
Mexican-American community: evidence of physical imbalance
Hutterites: having endured a trial by God
What are the folk healers of the hispanics?
Curandero, Espiritualista (spiritualist), Yerba (herbalist), or Sabedor (manipulates bone and muscles).
Describe the folk healers for blacks.
Hougan (vodoo presets or priestess), spiritualist, old lady
What are the folk healers of the American Indians?
Shaman, medicine women or medicine man.
What are the folk healers of the Asian?
Herbalist, acupuncturist, bone setters.
What are the folk healers of the Amish?
Braucher (used herbs and tonics)
