Health and Healing - Concepts to Practice Flashcards
Chapter 1, 7, 11, 20 - Person centered care, basic human needs, role of family, role of diversity, critical thinking, safety. (69 cards)
Define activities of daily living (ADLs)
Self-care activities people perform daily to remain independent and to function in society.
Define advocate
To speak or act on behalf of another person or group of people.
Define Caring
Concern for clients’ and their families’ dignity, independence, preferences, privacy, and safety at all times. True caring requires honesty, sensitivity, comforting, discretion, and respect while showing this concern.
Define client-centred care
Care that demonstrates concern for the dignity, independence, individualized care, preferences, privacy, and safety (DIPPS) of clients and their families at all times. Also known as compassionate care or person-centredcare.
Define dignity
The state of feeling worthy, valued, and respected.
What is DIPPS?
An acronym for the six principles of client-centred care (also known as compassionate care or person-centred care):dignity, independence, individualized care, preferences, privacy, and safety.
Define Scope of Practice
The limit and extent of a health care worker’s role as determined by your province’s educational standards and your employer’s policies in order to protect clients from harm. Scope of practice in a health care field varies from province to province and employer to employer.
define ageism
Feelings of impatience, intolerance, or prejudice based on negative attitudes and stereotypes toward a person or group of people because of their age.
Define assimilate
Adopt the traditions of the larger society.
Define Cultural competence
The ability of a person to interact effectively with people from diverse cultural, gender, or socioeconomic backgrounds.
Define Cultural Conflict
Negative feelings and conduct that can result when people from one culture try to impose their own set of values and behaviours on people from another culture.
Define Cultural Safety
Actively inviting and creating a space for cultural expression within health care.
Define Culture
The characteristics of a group of people, including language, values, beliefs, customs, habits, ways of life, rules for behaviour, music, and traditions.
Define Diversity
The state of different individuals and cultures coexisting.
Define Ethnicity
The sharing of a common history, language, geography, national origin, religion, or identity
Define ethnic identity
The ethnic background a person feels a part of, based usually on similar language and customs.
blended family
A couple with two or more children, one or more of whom is the natural child of one or both members of the couple and at least one is the stepchild of one of the partners
nuclear family
A family consisting of two partners and a child (or children) who live under one roof and are committed to mutually raising the child or children.
Define prejudice
An attitude that forms an opinion or prejudges a person based on their membership in a group
Define racism
Feelings of superiority over, and intolerance of or prejudice toward, a person or group of people who may have different physical appearance or cultural practices.
same-sex family
A family in which both adults who live together in a loving, intimate relationship are of the same gender; they may or may not have children.
Define sexism
Feelings of intolerance or prejudice toward a person or group of people because of their gender.
single-parent families
Families in which the adult head of the household does not have a partner who shares the home. Also called lone-parent families.
Define Stereotype
An overly simple or exaggerated view of a group of people.
