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34 Cards in this Set
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______% of CNM's provide care for vulnerable populations.
Define vulnerable |
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Poor, uninsured, or immigrant |
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Illness and health are inextricably linked to
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the cultural and social context of an individual's indentity and community.
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What is culture
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framework made up of values, mores, practices, that guide our behavior
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What is cultural competence?
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A set of behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enable an individual to function effectively with culturally diverse clients.
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What is the challenge with cultural competence?
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To identify the strengths that are inherent in diversity, and integrate these aspects into primary care education, counseling, and intervention
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As a provider with cultural competence, I need to ask myself
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Am I ready to accept and value the cultural differences that make up the populations I serve?
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? are more likely to experience reproductive cancers, substance abuse, depression, and suicide?
What percentage? Are they likely to seek preventive health care? |
lesbians
11% Yes |
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Failure to acknowledge a woman's cultural system
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cultural destructiveness
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If cultural insensitivity is observed in a colleague
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Confront it in a sensitive manner
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Cultural Incapacity
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A biased, authoritarian system that lacks the capacity to facilitate growth
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Cultural Blindness
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The "We are all human" approach is used where there is no difference in how services are provided
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Cultural pre-competence
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Cultural sensitivity-desire and attempt to deliver services in a respectful way
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Cultural Competence
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Acceptance of and respect for cultural norms, patterns, beliefs, and differences. Midwife and agency are on the same page of effective communication
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Cultural Proficiency
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Motivation towards add to the knowledge base of the culturally competent practice, cultural therapeutic approaches, and hiring staff who are specialist in cultural competence
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To become a culturally competent healthcare provider I have to have
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an accurate knowledge of my own cultural roots, beliefs, and behaviors.
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How is culture formed?
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Shaped by historical, social, and economic events
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Define ethnocentrism
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viewing alien cultures with disfavor -inherent superiority with one's own culture
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Bigotry
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intolerance to those who do not hold the same opinion
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Racism
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Belief in the superiority of a particular race
Carrying out systematic discrimination through major institutions |
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Societal Racism
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Receiving benefits through institutions by being white unintentionally
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Institutional Racism
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Institutions Rewarding and penalizing who they see fit -exclusion of black members from positions of control and leadership
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Privilege
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a right, favor, advantage, immunity given to one group and withheld from another
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Internalized oppression
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a person of color accepts the definition that the system of white supremacy has created
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Stereotype
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an attempt to reduce those we don't understand into one easily identifiable being. Can be positive or negative
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According to Jane Cioffi, the specific modes of action for culturally congruent care are
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preservation (prayer mats)
accommodation (Modifying baths chinese women) and repatterning (alteration of behavior chinese mothers) |
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The first interface between midwife and client can affect
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it has the potential to influence future use of the health service
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Race is
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biological
skin color hair |
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Ethnicity
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group that shares certain cultural characteristics. (Hispanic or Latino)
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Greatest reproductive disparities
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preterm birth, infant mortality, and maternal mortality
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Define disparities
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differences in incidence or prevalence of disease
or morbidity or mortality or in the way a person is treated |
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cultural relativism
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the concept that a person's beliefs and behaviors should be understood in the context of their culture
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Acculturation
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The process for adopting the practices of another group
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Emic perspective
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Describing your own culture
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Etic perspective
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describing another culture
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