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14 Cards in this Set
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acculturation
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modification of one's own culture as a result of contact with another culture
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assimilation
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generally a one-way process where people lose their own cultural identity as they gradually adopt and incorporate characteristics of the prevailing culture
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cultural competence
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the complex integration of knowledge, attitudes, and skills that enable the nurse to provide culturally appropriate health care
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cultural imposition
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the result when one's own cultural beliefs and practices are imposed on another person or group of people
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culture
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the knowledge, values, beliefs, art, morals, laws, customs, and habits of the members of a society
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culture-bound syndrome
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illnesses or afflictions that are recognized within a cultural group
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ethnicity
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groups whose members share a common social and cultural heritage
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ethnocentrism
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the tendency to subconsciously view others using one's own customs as the standard
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explanatory models
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interpretations and meanings of symptoms through a person's cultural norms
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race
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divisions of humankind, more closely related to people who share a common ancestry and physical characteristics such as skin color, bone structure, or blood group
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stereotyping
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the viewing of members of a specific culture, race, or ethnic group as being alike and sharing the same values and beliefs
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subcultures
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small groups within a cultural group that may not hold all of the values of the dominant culture because of differences related to ethnic background, residence, religion, occupation, health-related characteristics, age, gender, education, or other factors that unite the groups
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transcultural nursing
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a specialty that focuses on the comparative study and analysis of cultures and subcultures; the goal is the discovery of culturally relevant facts that can guide the nurse in providing culturally appropriate and competent care
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values
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the sets of rules by which individuals, families, groups, and communities live
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