Exam 2 Flashcards
(153 cards)
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Obligation to answer for personal actions
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Accountability
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Hearing sounds and searching for information relevant to those sounds so the sounds may be understood
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Active listening
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Written documents to state personal wishes regarding future health care
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Advance directives
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Sending or receiving information through feeling tone
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Affective communication
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A person who holds the belief that the existence of God can neither be proves nor disproved
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Agnostic
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An unjustified attempt or threat to touch someone
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Assault
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Giving up parts of your own culture and adopting parts of the culture of the dominant group
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Assimilation
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A person who does not believe the supernatural exists and therefore does not believe in God
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Atheist
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Parents cannot give informed consent for medical care of a child but can give authorized consent instead
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Authorized consent
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Control over personal decisions
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Autonomy
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Patients clinical condition is predictable; Medical and nursing orders are not changing continuously; No complex modifications of nursing care are needed
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Basic client situation
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Causing acute physical harm to someone
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Battery
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Mimicking or making fun of a person in some way
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Belittling
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Doing good
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Beneficence
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Healthcare providers making decisions for the patient based on “I know whats best for you”; Discounts patient autonomy
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Beneficent paternalism
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One of the elements needed to prove negligence; Means the nurse did not adhere to standards of care
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Breach of duty
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Involves the relationships between individuals and the violation of those rights
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Civil action (related to individual rights)
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Relates to ability to understand and make decisions; Has both legal and clinical meaning
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Client competency
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Questions that require specific answers from a patient
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Close-ended questions
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Pledge to do ones best
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Commitment
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Judge-made law, which has its origins in the courts
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Common law
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Stops meaningful conversation; Examples include chiding, belittling, probing, giving advice, and providing pat answers
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Communication blocks
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Focus is on assisting the body’s own healing powers and restoring body balance
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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
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Patient’s clinical condition is not predictable; Medical and nursing orders are likely to involve continuous changes or complex modifications
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Complex nursing situation
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Avoid sharing patient information with anyone not directly involved in care without the patients permission
Confidentiality
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Involves persons and society as a whole, for example, murder
Criminal action
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Unquestioned, unproved way of thinking
Cultural bias
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The continuous attempt of LPN/LVN nurses to gain the knowledge and skills that will allow them to effectively provide care for patients of different cultures
Cultural competence
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Learning about other cultures and being respectful of their customs, rites, and beliefs
Cultural sensitivity
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Differences in elements of culture in groups of people
Cultural diversity
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The total of all the ideas, beliefs, values, attitudes, communication, customs, traditions, and objects that a group of people possess; Culture includes ways of doing things
Culture
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Ways of doing things that are common to a group of people of the same culture
Customs
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One of four elements needed to prove negligence; Patient must be able to show the nurses negligent act injured the patient in some way
Damages
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Damage to someone's reputation through false communication or communication without permission
Defamation
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Physicians orders given to a RN or LPN/LVN by a physician, dentist, or podiatrist
Delegated medical act
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Gathering information under oath; One of the steps in bringing legal action
Depositions
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Supervisor is continuously present to coordinate, direct, or inspect nursing care; Supervisor is on building
Direct supervision
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Rights and privileges are withheld from those of another cultural group
Discrimination
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Order written by a physician; Patient will not recover; Patient may have signed an advanced directive regarding end-of-life care that states personal wishes
Do-not-resuscitate (DNR)
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Identifies who will make decisions regarding future care, extent of treatment, and kinds of treatment if the person is unable to make his or her own decisions; Written while the person is mentally competent
Durable medical power of attorney
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One of four elements needed to prove negligence; Refers to nurses responsibility to provide care in an acceptable way; Usually not delegated to someone with less education and nursing skill
Duty
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How people respond and deal with feelings of joy, anger, sadness, guilt, remorse, sorrow, love, etc
Emotional needs
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Respectful, detached concern
Empathy
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Process of learning your culture: the way your group does things, resulting in a world view
Enculturation
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Support core principals for end-of-life care
End-of-life principles
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Rules or principles that govern correct conduct
Ethics
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Cultural groups composed of people who are memebers of the same race, religion, or nation, or who speak the same language
Ethnic group
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The belief that ones own culture is best; the belief that ones way of doing things is superior/right/best
Ethnocentrism
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Physician or other person administering lethal dose of medication to end life; illegal in the US and Canada
Euthanasia
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Serious offense, with a penalty that ranges from 1 year in prison to death
Felony
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Response to senders message as part of meaningful conversation
Feedback
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Promising patient something you cannot deliver
False reassurance
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To be faithful to the charge of acting in the patients best interest when the capacity to make free choice is no longer available
Fidelity
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Questions that require definitive, precise information from a patient
Focused questions
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Telling someone what to do
Giving advice
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By entering a health facility voluntarily, a patient gives permission for treatment with noninvasive procedures; A patient may revoke this consent verbally and refuse to be treated
General (implied) consent
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Obtained by a physician for invasive procedures after physician has provided patient with facts about effects, side effects, alternative treatments, prognosis, and so on; May be revoked verbally at any time up to time of procedure
Informed consent
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Stipulates that a person who provides emergency care at the scene of an accident is immune from civil liability for actions done in good faith
Good Samaritan Act
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Federal law commonly called the Privacy Act
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) 2003
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Communication characteristic to help "lighten up" a situation
Humor
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To not deliberately deceive to present oneself in a better light
Honesty
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Form of vicarious liability; Health setting sued for negligence of employee
Institutional liability
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Agreement among states that licensed nurses do not have to repeat the (NCLEX-PN) exam if they meet criteria for working in the state
Interstate endorsement
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Intent to do a wrongful act
Intentional tort
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Arriving at an opinion based on some evidence
Judging
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Giving patients their due and treating them fairly
Justice
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Nursing law is based on each states Nurse Practice Act
Law
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Damage to someones reputation through written communication or pictures
Libel
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Written directive stating personal wished regarding future health care; Not recognized as a legal document in every state or other countries
Living will
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The US became know as the ... in the 19th century, when immigrants would assimilate into the dominant culture
Melting pot
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A part of negligence that relates to lack of skill or misconduct by a professional persons
Malpractice (professional negligence)
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The idea being conveyed or the question being asked
Message
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Governs the practice of nursing
Nurse Practice Act
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Dealing with right and wrong behavior
Morals
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Legislation in some states that renders a nursing license obtained in that state valid for practice in other states with multistate legislation
Multistate licensure (Nursing Licensure Compact)
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Least serious infraction of the law, except for a summary offense; Can result in a fine or up to 1 year in jail
Misdemeanor
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Guideline for good nursing care; Standards are based on what an ordinary, prudent nurse with similar education and nursing experience would do in a similar situation
Nursing standard of care
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Conduct that falls below the standard of care established by law for the protection of others
Negligence
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First, do no harm
Nonmaleficence
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Taking at face value; Accepting people as they are
Nonjudgmental
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Sending or receiving information by facial expressions or body language
Nonverbal communication
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System of principles governing conduct of nurses
Nursing ethics
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When the sender controls a situation and offers no opportunity for feedback from the receiver; used to give a command
One-way communication
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Questions that permit the patient to respond in a way most meaningful to him or her; These type of questions often begin with what, where, when
Open-ended questions
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Allows terminally ill Oregonians to end their lives through voluntary self-administration of lethal medication
Oregon Death with Dignity Act
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Works in various church settings in a health ministry
Parish nurse
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Members of the health team who assist nurses in meeting the spiritual needs of the patients
Pastoral care team
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Willingness to put up with waiting and being okay about doing so
Patience
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Basis for advanced directives; Federal law mandates that Medicare and Medicaid patients must be told of their right to formulate advance directives
Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)
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Provide personal guidelines for living
Personal ethics
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Holds person (nurse) responsible for own actions
Personal liability
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Name tagged onto "Oregon Death with Dignity Law"; Physician writes prescription for medication to end life but does not administer it; Patient self-administers lethal medication
Physician-assisted suicide
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The opinion that a person has about something, even though facts dispute the opinion
Prejudice
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Both a legal and ethical issue; Patients right to choose what is done to his or her body, based on personal beliefs, feelings, and attitude
Privacy
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Pushing for information beyond what is medically necessary to know
Probing
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Reason
Purpose
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Person receiving the message, idea, or question
Receiver
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Attempts to give form to spiritual beliefs by adopting specific beliefs and rituals
Religion
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An organized group of persons with a philosophy that supports their particular concept of God
Religious denomination
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Consideration, regard
Respect
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Religious practices that affirm believers connection to a higher power
Rituals
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A method of clear communication between nurses and physicians; Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation
SBAR
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Special sense that it is okay to receive credit for something you did well
Self-esteem
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Person conveying an idea or asking a question
Sender
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General response
Simple answer
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Awareness of what others are feeling; Tunes in on affective and nonverbal communication
Sensitivity
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Life force that penetrates the persons entire body; Gives meaning to life
Spirit
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Recognize and support spiritual need of the patient in the health care setting
Spiritual caring
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That which gives insight into the persons meaning of life, suffering, and death
Spiritual distress
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Pertaining to the soul; Ones life force
Spirituality
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Casting all people in a culture as being the same in regard to thinking, feeling, and acting
Stereotype
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Between the patient and the nurse; The focus is on the patient
Therapeutic communication
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Rely on, depend on
Trust
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When there is feedback or discussion between the sender and receiver; the usual form of conversation
Two-way communication
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Assigned to an idea or action; Freely chosen and affected by age, experience, and maturity
Values
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Sending or receiving communication through the spoken or written word
Verbal communication
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Relative terms; Have different meanings for different cultures
Health and illness
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Shared by persons with same cultural background
Worldview
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When values and beliefs are exchanged as a result of continuous direct interaction between cultures
Acculturation
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Truths held by a culture
Beliefs
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An interaction between two or more persons
Communication
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Appreciation of the external signs of diversity such as the arts, music, dress, and physical characteristics
Cultural awareness
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Seeking understanding of another persons culture, race, and ethnicity
Cultural competence
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Recognizing that diversity exists and that one needs to respect a persons uniqueness
Cultural sensitivity
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All the learned patterns of behavior passed down through generations
Culture
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Spread of cultural traits from another culture
Diffusion
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Learning ones culture through observation and instruction
Enculturation
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Stable cultural patterns shared by a group of families with the same historical roots
Ethnicity
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The response to a message
Feedback
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The customs within the culture that determine how we greet one another
Folkways
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Change by a combination of diffusion, acculturation, migration patterns, and tourism
Globalization
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The rights of an individual for independent thoughts and actions
Individualism
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The spoken or written words or symbols used by a population for communication
Language
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Written policies supported and enforced by the government
Laws
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Can be active or passive and involves the interpretation of the spoken word
Listening
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The expression of thoughts and feelings in words, symbols, and body language
Message
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The way a message is conveyed
Method
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Moral issues that are strongly believed by a culture
Mores
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Communication using body language
Nonverbal
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Socially accepted rules and behavior that guide human behavior and interactions within a culture
Norms
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A negative feeling, attitude, or judgment directed towards people because of their race, sex, gender, or sexual orientation
Prejudice
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The person to whom a message is sent
Receiver
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A specific system of beliefs and worship
Religion
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The person who delivers a message
Sender
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Communication that is used every day and is light and superficial
Social communication
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An awareness of the metaphysical, the religious, or the sublime
Spirituality
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Describes a culture within the dominant cultural group that has its own values and beliefs and interest
Subculture
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Expressed as language, gestures, or objects
Symbols
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Innovative changes in society including advances in science, medicine, engineering, communication, and manufacturing used to solve problems and create change
Technological innovations
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Communication that is purposeful and goal directed
Therapeutic communication
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A view of nursing as caring for one world with many cultures
Transcultural nursing
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Deeply embedded feelings that determine what is considered good or bad, right or wrong
Values
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Transmission of attitudes, thoughts, and feelings using spoken or written words
Verbal communication
