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Define cross-cultural or transcultural nursing.
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any nursing encounter in which the client and nurse are from different cultures
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what is cultural competence?
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considering cultural aspects of health, illness, and treatment for each client or community, as well as doing so at each stage of the nursing process
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What is cultural safety?
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providing culturally appropriate health services to disadvantaged groups while stressing dignity and avoiding institutional racism, assimilationism, and repressive practices
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What is cultural humility?
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–Ask open-ended questions about beliefs and practices of the client and family.
–Ask about traditions. |
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T or F: Ethnocentrism can be defined as an assumption that everyone shares your cultural values, or an opinion that your culture is superior to others.
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True
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What is a subculture?
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a group sharing some practices, language or other characteristics in common, within a larger society that does not share those characteristics
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What must community and public health agencies do to be culturally competent?
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1. Have a defined set of values and principles and demonstrate behaviors, attitudes, policies, and structures that enable them to work effectively cross-culturally.
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In order for community and public health agencies to be culturally competent, they must have the capacity to...(5 things)
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–Value diversity
–Conduct self-assessment –Manage the dynamics of difference –Acquire and institutionalize cultural knowledge –Adapt to diversity and the cultural contexts of the communities they serve |
