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Culture

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Thoughts communications actions of racial ethnic religious or social groups

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Subcultures

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Religious groups with characteristics distinct from the dominant culture

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Ethnicity

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Shared identity related to social and cultural heritage such as language and racial characteristics

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Emic worldview

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Native perspective

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Etic worldview

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Outsider perspective

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Enculturation

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Socialization into one’s primary culture as a child

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Assimilation

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Members of an ethnocultural community are observed into another community and lose their characteristics such as language

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Biculturalism

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Individual identifies equally with two or more cultures

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Transcultural nursing

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Comparative study of cultures to determine similarities and differences across human groups

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Culturally congruent care

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Care that fits the persons life patterns values and a set of meetings

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Cultural competence

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Process of acquiring specific knowledge skills and attitudes to ensure delivery of culturally congruent care

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Ethnocentrism

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A tendency to hold one’s way of life as superior to others

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Cultural imposition

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Use their own values and lifestyles as an absolute guide and dealing with patients and interpreting their behaviors

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Naturalistic practitioners

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Attribute illness to natural and personal and biological forces that cause alteration in the equilibrium of the human body uses herbs chemicals heat cold

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Personalistic practitioners

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Believe that an X ternal agent which can be human or nonhuman causes health and illnesses

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Culture bound syndromes

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Illnesses that are specific to one culture

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Rights of passage

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Significant social markers of changes in a persons life

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Cultural pain

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Healthcare providers disregard values or cultural beliefs

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Ethnohistory

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Significant historical experiences of a particular group

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Fictive

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Non-blood kin

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Bilineal

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Kinship extends to both the mother and father side of the family

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Patrilineal

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Kinship extends to father

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Matrilineal

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Kinship mother side

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Cultural care preservation or. Maintenance

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Retain and or preserve relevant care values so patient maintains their well-being recover from illness or face handicaps and or death

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Cultural care accommodation or in the Negotiation
Adapt or negotiate with others for a beneficial or satisfying health outcome
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Cultural care repatterning or restructuring
Reorder change or greatly modify patients lifestyles for a new different and beneficial healthcare pattern
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Perceptual bias
Human tendencies that interfere with accurately perceiving and interpreting messages from others
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Intrapersonal communication
Communication that occurs within an individual
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Interpersonal communication
One on one interaction between a nurse and another person that often occurs face-to-face
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Transpersonal communications
Interaction that occurs within a person spiritual domain
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Small group communication
Interaction that occurs when a small number of persons met
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Public communication
Interaction with an audience
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Referent
Motivates one person to communicate with another
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Sender
Person who encodes and delivers the message
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Receiver
One who receives the message
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Message
Content of Communication
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Channels
Means of conveying and receiving messages through visual auditory oil and tactile senses
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Feedback
Message the receiver returns
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Interpersonal variables
Factors within both the sender and receiver that influence communication
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Environment
Setting for sender receiver interactions
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Verbal communication
Spoken or written words
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Nonverbal communication
Five senses and everything that does not involve the spoken or written word
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Symbolic communication
Verbal and nonverbal symbolism used by others to convey meaning
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Metacommunication
Broad term that refers to all factions of influence communication
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Autonomy
Being self-directed an independent in accomplishing goals and advocating for others
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Assertiveness
Allows you to express feelings and ideas without judging or hurting others
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Therapeutic communication
Specific responses that encourage the expression of feelings and ideas and convey acceptance and respect
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Active listening
Being attentive to what a patient is saying both verbally and nonverbally
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Empathy
Ability to understand and accept another persons reality accurately perceive feelings and communicate this understanding to the other
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Sympathy
Concern sorrow or pity felt for a patient
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Inspection
Occurs when interacting with a patient watching for nonverbal expression of emotion and mental status
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Olfaction
Smelling
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Palpation
Sense of touch together information
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Percussion
Tapping the skin with the fingertips to vibrate underlying tissues and organs
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Auscultation
listening to sounds of the body makes to detect variations from normal
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Integumentary system
Skin hair scalp and nails
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Pigmentation
Skin color varying from body part to body part and from person to person
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Cyanosis
Bluish discoloration in the lips nailbed and palms
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Jaundice
Yellow orange discoloration
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Erythema
Red discoloration
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Indurated
Hardened
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Turgor
Refers to the elasticity of the skin
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Petechia
Non-blanching pinpoint size red or purple spots on the skin caused by a small hemorrhages in the skin layer
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Edema
Swollen
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Alopecia
Hair loss
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Nystagmus
Involuntary rhythmic occultation of the eyes
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Ptosis
Abnormal drooping over the lid of the pupil
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Ectropion
Eyelid margin turns out
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Entropion
Eyelid margin turns in
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Conjunctivitis
Read conjunctiva
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Archie senilis
Thin white ring along the margin of the iris
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pERRLA
Pupils equal round reactive to light and accommodation
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Cerumen
Earwax
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Ototoxicity
Andrew the auditory nerve
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Excoriation
Local skin breakdown
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Polyps
Tumor like growths
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Malignancy
Abnormality of superficial limp nodes
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Vocal or tactile fremitus
Vibrations you palpate externally on the abdomen
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Adventitious sounds
Just sounds
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Apical impulse or point of maximum impulse
PM I Apex touching the anterior chest wall at approximately the 4th to 5th intercostal space just medial to the left midclavicular line
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Dysrhythmia
Failure of heart to be at regular successive intervals
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Ventricular gallop
S III
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Murmurs
Sustain swishing or blowing sounds heard at the beginning middle or end of the systolic or diastolic phase
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Thrill
Continuous palpable sensation that resembles the purring of a cat
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Syncope
Loss of consciousness
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Stenosis
Narrowing
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Bruit
Blowing sound when the lumen of a blood vessel is narrow it disturbs bloodflow when blood passes through the narrowed section it creates turbulence causing a blowing or swishing sound
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Clubbing
A bulging of the tissue at the nailbed
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Acculturation
Second culture learning that occurs when the culture of the minority is gradually displaced by the culture of the dominant group in the process of assimilation
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Biophysical development
How are physical bodies grow and change
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Freud's psychoanalytical model of personality development
Individuals go through five stages of psychosexual development and each stage is characterized by sexual pleasure and parts of the body the mouth to anus and the genitals
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Ericksons theory of psychosocial development
Individuals need to accomplish a particular task before successfully mastering the stage and progressing to the next one
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Temperament
Behavioral style that affects an individual's emotional interaction with others
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Piaget's theory of cognitive development
For periods that are related to age and demonstrate specific categories of knowing and understanding
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Open ended questions
Bronze patients to describe a situation in more than one or two words
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Back channeling
Includes active listening problems such as all right go on or uh-huh this indicates that you have heard with the patient's said and arr interested in hearing the full story
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Closed ended questions
Limit answers to one or two words such as yes
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Nursing health history
During either your initial or an early
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Concomitant symptoms
Associated symptoms
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Review of systems
Systematic approach for collecting the patient self-reported data on all body systems

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