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What is culture?

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All socially learned behaviors, values, beliefs, customs, and ways of thinking of a population that guide its members

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Age, Growth, And Development: The age of onset of schizophrenia is a strong predictor of

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the prognosis of the disease.

People at younger age have poorer outcomes and negative signs (apathy, social isolation) and less effective coping skills

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Age, Growth, And Development: Why may younger people struggle with schizophrenia?

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Younger clients have not had expeirences of succesful independent living or the opportunity to work and be self-sufficient

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Age, Growth, And Development: What did Erik Erikson develop?

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Psychosocial development across the lifespan in terms of developmental tasks to accomplish at each stage . Each stage depends on successful completion of previous stage

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Age, Growth, And Development: Tasks to complete in Trust vs Mistrust

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Viewing world as safe and reliable. Viewing relationships as nurturing, stable, and dependable

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Age, Growth, And Development: Taks to complete in Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt

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Achieving a sense of control and free will

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Age, Growth, And Development: Initiative vs Guilt tasks to complete

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Beginning to develop a sonscience. Learning to manage clonflict and anxiety

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Age, Growth, And Development: Industry vs Inferiority tasks to complete

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Building confidence in own abilitites.

Taking pleasure in accomplishments

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Tasks to accomplish in Identity vs role diffusion

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Formulating sense of self and belonging

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Age, Growth, And Development: Tasks to complete in Intimacy vs Isolation

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Forming adult, loving relationships and meaningful attachment to others

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Age, Growth, And Development: Tasks to complete in Generativity vs Stagnation

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Establishing the next generation

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Age, Growth, And Development: Tasks to complete in Ego Integrity vs Despair

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Accepting responsibility for oneself and life

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Genetics and Biologic Factors: Geneetic makeup tremendously influcnes a persons response to

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illness and perhaps even treatment

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Physical Health and Health Practices: What may impair a person’s ability to cope?

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Poor nutritional status, lack of sleep, or a chronic physical illness

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Self-Efficacy: What is this?

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Belief that personal abilities and efforts affect the events in one’s life. Person who believes that their behavior makes a difference is more likely to take action

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Self-Efficacy: People with high self-efficacy act how?

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set personal goals, are self-motivated ,cope effectibely with stress and request support from others when needed

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Self-Efficacy: People with low self-efficacy act how?

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have low aspirations, experience much self-doubt, and may be plagued by anxiety and depression

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Hardiness: What is this?

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The ability to resist illness when under stress. Hardiness has three components

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Hardiness: What are the three compoentns of this?

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Commitment: Active involvment in life activites

Control: Ability ot make appropriate descisions in life activites

Challenge: Ability to perceive change as beneficial rather than just stressful

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Hardiness: What did Kobasa find out?

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That male executives who had high stress but low occurence of illness scored higher on hardiness than executives with high stress and high occurence of illness

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Hardiness: Personal hardinenss is often described as

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a pattern of attitudes and actions that helps the person turn stressful circumstances into opportunities for growth

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Hardiness: Persons with high hardiness perceive stressors more

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accurately and are able to problem-solve in the situation more effectively

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Resilence and Resourcefulness: What is Resilence?

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Defined as having healthy responses to stressful circumstances or risky situations.

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Resilence and Resourcefulness: What does Resilence help explain?

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Why one person reacts to a slightly stressful event with severe anxiety while another person does not experience distress even when confronting a major disruption

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Resilence and Resourcefulness: High resilence is associated wiht

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promoting and protectects ones mental health, described as flourhsing

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Resilence and Resourcefulness: What does Family Resilence refer to?

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The successful coping of family memebrs under stress. This includes positive outlook, spirtuality, family member accord and flexibility

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Resilence and Resourcefulness: What is resourcefulness?

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It involves using probolem-solving abilities and believing that one can cope with adverse or novel situations

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Resilence and Resourcefulness: People develop resourcefulness through

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interactions with others

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Resilence and Resourcefulness: Examples of resourcefulness includue

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performing health-seeking behaviors, leanring self-care, monitoring one’s thoughts and feelings about stressfuls ituations

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Spirituality: What does this involve?

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The essence of a person’s being and his or her beliefs about the meaning of life and the purpose for living

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Sense of Belonging: What is this?

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Feeling of connectedness with or involvement in a social system or environment of which a person feels an integral part

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Sense of Belonging: Maslow describes this as

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a basic human psychosocial need that invovles feelings of both value and fit

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Sense of Belonging: Value refers to what

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feeling needed and accepted

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Sense of Belonging: What does FIt refer to?

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feeling that one meshes or fits in with the system or environment . Meaning when a person belongs to a group, they feel valued

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Sense of Belonging: Persons sense of belonging is closely related to

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his or her social and psychological functioning

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Sense of Belonging: SEnse of belonging was found to promote

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health, whihc a lack of this sense impaired health

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Social Networks and Social Supports: What are social networks?

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Groups of popele one knows and with whom one feels connected.

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Social Networks and Social Supports: Social networks can reduce

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stress, dimish illness, and positively influence the ability to cope and adapt

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Social Networks and Social Supports: What is social support?

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Emotional sustenance that comes from friends, family membrs, and even health care providers

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Social Networks and Social Supports: What is social contact?

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The friendly talk that goes on at parties

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Social Networks and Social Supports: What components necessary for support system to be effective?

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Clients perception of the support system and the responsiveness of the support system

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What does Culturally Competent Nursing care mean?

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Being sensitive to issues related to culture, race, gender, sexual orientation, social class, economic situation and other factors

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Beliefs about Causes of Illness: Two prevalent types of beleifs about what causes illness in non-western cultures are what?

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Natural

Unnatural/Personal

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Beliefs about Causes of Illness: What are unnatural or personal beliefs attribute the cause of illness to?

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Active, purposeful intervention of an outside agent, spirit, or supernatural force or deity

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Beliefs about Causes of Illness: What is the natural view rotted in ?

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Belief that natural conditions or forces, such as cold, heat, wind, or dampness are responsible for the illness

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Beliefs about Causes of Illness: A sick person with a natural view would not see what?

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The relaitonship between their behavior or health practices and the illness. Would try to counteract negative forces or spirits using traditional cultural remedies rather than taking medication

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Fators in Cultural Assessment: What did Giger identify?

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The model for assessing clients using six cultural factors:

Communication ,Physical Distance, Social Organization, Time Orietnation, Environmental Control, And Biologic Variations

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Social Organization: What does this refer to?

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Family structure and organizatio, religious values and beliefs ,ethnicity and culture, all of which affect a person’s role and therefore his or her health and illness behavior

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Environmental Control: What does this refer to?

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Client’s ability to control the surroundings or direct factors in the environment

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Environmental Control: People who believe they have control of their health are more likely to seek

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care, change their behaviors, and follow treatment recommendations

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Environmental Control: Those who believe that illness is a result of nature or natural causes are less likely to

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seek traditional health care because they do not believe it can help them

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Biologic Variations: What disease is found exclusivel y in African Americans?

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Sickle Cell Anemia

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Biologic Variations: What disease is most prevalent in the Jewish community?

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Tay-Sachs

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Socioeconomic Status and Social Class: WWhat does socioeconomic status refer to?

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Ones income, education and occuptation. Strongly influences a person’s health including whether or not person has insurance or assess to health care

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Nurses Rule in Working with Cultures: To provide cpmpetent care, nurse must found out what?

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As much as possible about a client’s cultural values, beliefs, and health practices. “How would you like to be cared for”

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Nurses Rule in Working with Cultures: How can a nurse assess health practices and religious beliefs?

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“Do you follow any dietary preferences or restrictions”?

“How can I assist you in practicing your relgious or spiritual beliefs?”

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What individual factors influence a client’s response to illness?

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Age and Growth and Development

Biologic and Genetic Factors

Hardiness

REsilence and Resourcefulness

Self-Efficacy and Spiritualiy

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Biologic makeup includes what?

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perosns heredity and physical health

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younger clients may have difficulty expressing their thoughts and feelings so they have poorer

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outcomes when experiencing stress or illness

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people who have difficulty negotiating the tasks of psychosocial development have less

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effective skills to cope with illness

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What is resilience?

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Perosns ability to respond in a healthy manner to stressful circumstaances or risky siutations

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What is resourcefulness?

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Demonstrated in one’s ability to manage daily activities and is personal characteristic acquired through interactions with others

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What are the interpersonal factors that influence a clinet’s response to illness?

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Sense of Belonging

Personal Involvement in System or Environment

Socail NEtworks

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What has the most influence on a persons health beliefs and behaviors?

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Culture

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What is a model for assesssing clients from various ethnic backgrounds including the six cultural phenomena?

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Communication Technique and Style

Physical Distance and Space

Socail ORganization

Time Orietnation

Environmetnal Control

Biologic Variations