Importance, Goals, Theorist, and Basic Concepts

Question 1

Importance of Trans. Nursing

Answer 1

• Provide culturally competent and respectful care
  to patients from diverse backgrounds and
  community
• Helps nurses to understand and appreciate the
  cultural values, beliefs and practices of their
  patients.
• Helps nurses to improve patient outcomes
  compliance communication and self-esteem
• Help nurses to learn about the history and context
  of the healthcare setting and the community
• Learn how to do comparative cultural care and
  health assessment with individuals, families,
  groups, institutions and communities

Question 2

Develop scientific and humanistic body of knowledge
in order to provide culture specific and culture
universal nursing practices for individuals, families,
groups, communities, and institutions of similar
diverse cultures.

Answer 2

Goals

Question 3

Particular values,
beliefs, and patterns of
behavior that tend to be
special or unique to a
group that do not tend
to be shared with
members of other
cultures

Answer 3

Culture Specific

Question 4

Commonly shared
values, norms of
behaviors and life
patterns that are
similarly held among
cultures about human
behavior and lifestyle

Answer 4

Culture Universal

Question 5

Who is the nursing theorist in Transcultural Nursing?

Answer 5

Madeleine Leininger

Question 6

Founder of Transcultural Nursing

Answer 6

Madeleine Leininger

Question 7

Madeleine Leininger studied ________ in 1950s and early 60s

Answer 7

anthropology

Question 8

Leininger earned her PhD in ______ ______

Answer 8

cultural anthropology

Question 9

True or False

Leininger decided that transcultural nursing rarely deals with the lifeways and patterns of people.

Answer 9

False

Leininger decided that nursing was constantly dealing with the lifeways and patterns of people.

Question 10

study of the lifeways and patterns of persons of various cultures including their
healthcare practices and nursing role.

Answer 10

Transcultural Nursing

Question 11

the study of the lifeways and patterns of persons of various culture from an anthropological perspective that is being applied to nursing.

Answer 11

Cross Cultural Nursing

Question 12

exchange of nurses between two or more nations or cultures.

Answer 12

International Nursing

Question 13

patterns and lifeways that guide a group of
people’s world view and decision making.

Answer 13

Culture

Question 14

situation where one culture forces their values and beliefs on another culture or subculture.

Answer 14

Cultural Imposition

Question 15

person who flees from persecution, invasion or political danger.

Answer 15

Refugee

Question 16

something regarded as desirable, worthy or
right, as belief, standard, or moral precept.

Answer 16

Values

Question 17

Tenet or body of tenets, doctrine; creed.

Answer 17

Beliefs

Question 18

What are the factors of beliefs?

Answer 18

1. Religion
2. Environment

Question 19

Universal tendency of human beings to
think that their ways of thinking, acting, and believing are
the only right, proper, and natural ways. It can be a major
barrier to providing culturally conscious care.

Answer 19

Ethnocentrism

Question 20

usually an oversimplification made
about behaviors of an individual or large group.

Answer 20

Generalization

Question 21

to make a person possess or believe to possess characteristics or qualities that typify a particular
group.

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Stereotyping

Question 22

related term that is often used as the same as
culture, but it has different meaning.

Answer 22

Ethnicity

Question 23

refers to racial and often skin-color identity of particular groups related to specific and obvious features based on national origins

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Ethnicity

Question 24

refers to the powerful internal and external directive forces that give meaning and order to the thinking, decisions, and actions of an individual or group. It becomes guides to nursing actions and decision

Answer 24

Cultural Value

Question 25

refers to an individual who is disoriented or unable to respond appropriately to another person or situation because the lifeways are so strange and unfamiliar

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Culture Shock

Question 26

are two important but different concepts to be understood by nurses in transcultural nursing

Answer 26

Uniculturalism and Multiculturalism

Question 27

refers to the belief that one’s universe is largely constituted, centered upon, and functions from a one-culture perspective that reflects excessive ethnocentrism

Answer 27

Uniculturalism

Question 28

Uniculturalism is also known as

Answer 28

monoculturalism

Question 29

refers to a perspective and reality that there are many different cultures and subcultures in the world that need to be recognized, valued, and understood for their differences and similarities.

Answer 29

Multiculturalism

Question 30

is closely related to ethnocentrism. It refers to firm position or stance that one’s own values and beliefs must govern the situation or decision

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Cultural Bias

Question 31

refers to the position that cultures are so unique and must be evaluated, judged, and helped according to their own particular values and standards

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Cultural Relativism

Question 32

refers to the inability of an individuals to recognize or see one’s own lifestyle values, and modes of acting as those based largely on ethnocentric and based tendencies

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Cultural Blindness

Question 33

is a relatively new concept in healthcare that Leininger coined and discovered while caring for cultures who said they experience “pain” because nurses and physicians failed to recognize their cultural discomfort or offenses

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Cultural Pain

Question 34

Refers to the suffering, discomfort, or being greatly offended by an individual or group who shows a great lack of sensitivity toward another’s cultural experience

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Cultural Pain

Question 35

refers to biological and physical expressions in different physical environments or contexts related to care, health, illness and disabilities

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Bioculturalism

Question 36

refers to specific care, health, illness and disease conditions that are particular, quiet unique and usually specific to a designated culture or geographical area

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Culture Bound

Question 37

is derived from the concept of race, and race is generally defined as a biological factor of a discrete group whose members share distinctive, genetic, biological and other factors from a common or claimed ancestor.

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Racism

Question 38

True or False Race has become used and often viewed as a discrimination of oppressed majorities or people of different skin color

Answer 38

False Race has become used and often viewed as a discrimination of oppressed minorities or people of different skin color

Question 39

refers to preconceived ideas, beliefs, or opinions about an individual, group or culture that limit a full and accurate understanding of the individual, culture, gender, event or situatio

Answer 39

Prejudice

Question 40

refers to overt or covert ways of limiting opportunities choices or life experiences of others based on feelings or on racial biases

Answer 40

Discrimination

Question 41

refers to negative feedback or unfavorable outcomes after nurses have been working or consulting with cultures (often overseas) for brief periods

Answer 41

Cultural Backlash

Question 42

refers to nurses who became too involved, overly sympathetic or too compassionate with the people, situation or a human condition. As a consequence, the nurse is unable to be helpful to the culture or individual, nontherapeutic and inappropriate actions are evident

Answer 42

Cultural Overidentification