Transcultural Midterms Flashcards
(40 cards)
What is Ethnoreligion
The combination of religion and ethnicity influencing a person’s beliefs, such as Amish or Lebanese Muslims.
What is the Experiential Dimension of religion?
It recognizes that all religious persons will experience direct knowledge of ultimate reality or religious emotions.
What does the Ritualistic Dimension of religion pertain to?
It includes worship, prayer, sacraments, and fasting expected of followers.
Define the Ideologic Dimension of religion.
A set of beliefs followers must adhere to, leading to a sense of belonging and commitment.
What is the Intellectual Dimension of religion?
It refers to knowledge of sacred writings or scriptures and the structuring of meaning.
What does the Consequential Dimension govern?
Religious standards of conduct, influencing attitudes and behaviors towards others.
What is the nurse’s role in spiritual care?
To help clients maintain and use their beliefs to cope with health challenges.
Why do some nurses fail to provide spiritual care?
Due to discomfort with their beliefs, lack of knowledge, or viewing it as the family’s responsibility.
What is Spiritual Distress?
A disruption in the life principle that integrates and transcends a person’s biological and psychological nature.
What should a nurse do during spiritual assessment?
Ask questions to clarify the client’s spiritual problem non-judgmentally.
How may religion influence parents’ medical decisions for ill children?
Parents might delay seeking care, believing prayer should be tried first.
How does religion influence care for dying patients?
Nurses must understand cultural beliefs to individualize care for clients and families during death.
What is the significance of embalming in some cultures?
It prepares the body for viewing, transforming it into a “beautiful memory picture.
What are the health care practices of the Amish?
They may use folk healing, herbal medicine, and Western biomedicine during crises.
What is the Church of Latter-Day Saints’ view on medical intervention?
They believe medical intervention is a way God uses humans to heal.
What dietary restrictions are followed by the Church of Latter-Day Saints?
They prohibit alcohol, tea, coffee, tobacco, and illegal drugs.
What are the 5 essential pillars of faith in Islam?
Shahada, prayer, alms-giving (Zakat), fasting during Ramadan, and pilgrimage to Mecca.
What dietary restrictions do Muslims follow?
Pork and alcoholic beverages are prohibited, and meat must be Halal.
What is the Islamic view on the right to die?
The right to die is not recognized, and terminating life is prohibited.
What is required in Islamic burial rituals?
Washing the body three times, wrapping it in clean cloth, and burying it as soon as possible with the head facing Mecca.
What is the goal of spiritual nursing care?
To assist clients in integrating their religious beliefs into their physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
Why is it important for nurses not to impose their beliefs on clients?
Spiritual care should respect the client’s beliefs without imposing the nurse’s personal convictions.
What are common reasons nurses mistake spiritual needs for psychological needs?
Lack of knowledge about spirituality and viewing spiritual care as a family or pastoral responsibility.
What are the key focuses of spiritual nursing intervention?
Helping clients use their beliefs to strengthen their coping patterns during health challenges.
