week 12: culture, beliefs, values, assumptions and biases

Question 1

what is culture?

Answer 1

A patterned behavioural response that develops over time through social and religious customs and intellectual and artistic activities.
- it is shaped by values, beliefs, norms, and practices that are shared by members of the same cultural group.

Question 2

what is value?

Answer 2

A value is a personal belief about the worth of a given idea, attitude, custom, or object that sets standards that influence behaviour.

Question 3

what is a belief

Answer 3

A belief is an opinion or conviction in the truth or existence of something without positive knowledge or rigorous proof. it is an interpretation or conclusion that one accepts as true.

Question 4

how do nurses know what values and beliefs they must uphold/are expected responsible for demonstrating and practicing when they provide nursing care?

Answer 4

From code of conduct, CNO, RNAO, ethics, knowledge

Question 5

how do nurses reconcile differences between personal and professional values and beliefs?

Question 6

Assumptions

Answer 6

Assumptions are ideas that are taken for granted or automatically accepted as truth because they are thought to derive from evidence or experience

Question 7

labels and stereotypes

Answer 7

labels lead to stereotypes and biased care, which result in harm and can result in adverse health outcomes.

Question 8

biases in healthcare

Answer 8

Implicit biases, by contrast, are attitudes and beliefs about race, ethnicity, age, ability, gender, or other characteristics that operate outside our conscious awareness and can be measured only indirectly

sexual identity, sex and gender, education. socioeconomic status, ableism, age, overweight and obesity, racial bias, geographical location.

Question 9

CNO

Answer 9

The College of Nurses of Ontario is the governing body for Registered Nurses (RNs), Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) in Ontario, Canada.

Question 10

Culturally sensitive care

Answer 10

providing culturally sensitive care is an important component of patient centered-care. nurses must strive to enhance their ability to provide patient-centered care by reflecting on how the patients cultures, values and beliefs impact the nurse-patient relationship.

Question 11

cultural humility

Answer 11

• the ability to maintain an interpersonal stance that is other-oriented, in relation to aspects of cultural identity that are most important to the person.
• cultural humility requires a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and self-critique, fixing people and groups who advocate for others.

Question 12

Shared humanity

Answer 12

everyone is like everyone else

Question 13

group identity

Answer 13

everyone is like someone else

Question 14

Individuality

Answer 14

everyone is like no one else

Question 15

cultural humility involved

Answer 15

1. a lifelong motivation to learn from others
2. critical self-examination of cultural awareness
3. interpersonal respect
4. developing mutual partnerships that address power imbalances
5. an other-oriented stance open to new cultural information

Question 16

cultural and linguistic competence

Answer 16

• clients have a right to culturally and clinically appropriate care delivery provided by the appropriate care delivery provided by the appropriate person in the health care team.
• accepting and respecting cultural differences and adapting care to be congruent with the clients culture should not result in nursing practice that would be in contravention of professional codes of ethics, nursing practice standards, legal frameworks or united nations human rights conventions.

Question 17

how may religious care help patients

Answer 17

maintains their belief system and worship practices

Question 18

how does knowing about a patients culture help the nurse?

Answer 18

it helps the nurse work in a nonjudgmental and tolerable manner.