Drug culture

Culture Self-Assessment Culture is a way to name who you are as a human being. My identification includes being a 21-year-old straight white American female with a Native American and Japanese ethnic background. My parents were teen parents, and I have a single mom raising me. Socioeconomically I have been below the poverty line growing up, and pay for college all on my own. Organizations I am involved with in nursing school are club volleyball, crimson scrubs, and being a student ambassador.…

Hispanic Culture: Issues of Healthcare and Privacy When providing care for someone from another culture the nurse must be aware that there are some cultural differences that are upheld by other cultures. The nurse must not impose their cultural views on the patient. And the nurse cannot let his/her views effect the quality of care to be provided. The nurse also must take these differences into consideration while still doing his/her best to provide the finest, culturally appropriate care…

relatives, known as a “kinship system” by anthropologists. So, the easiest way to learn about another culture might be through careful observation and active participation, while using technology to read up on information is yet another way of learning about other cultures. The internet is teeming with “short ethnographies” in form of travelogues and newspaper articles that explain the basics of another culture to the potential…

Cultural Dimensions: United States Vs. Japan Noelle DiPietro CIS 110-001 Abstract Communication is very diverse throughout different cultures. Geert Hofstede demonstrates this through his cultural dimensions. They are Power Distance, Individualism/Collectivism, Masculinity/Femininity, Uncertainty Avoidance, Long-term/Short-term orientation, and Indulgence/Restraint. Power Distance is the expecting and acceptance that power will be equally or unequally shared.…

What is culture? Should it be taught? Masoud Ranjbaran Iran University of Science and Technology Foreign Language Department The complexity of culture is the main reason that it prevents scholars to reach consensus on its definition. Looking through the lens of each researcher, they provide useful information about different aspects of the concept. This construct is the cynosure of different disciplines such as anthrophony, sociology, psychology and linguistics. Kroeber and Kluckhohn…

There were individual beliefs and traditions within them per family, but overall there was a main culture. I grew up in the church, going to mass every Sunday, attending Sunday School and going through all my sacraments and praising the lord. Learning that it was his way or the highway. My family’s faith was strong, but not overpowering. There was still…

born from their culture. It is the first thing they identify with, the first thing they learn about. It is in the first things they say, in the first things they understand. It is the beginning of a person, it is what shapes them. A person’s culture cultivates them, it shapes their viewpoints of society. It becomes a part of who they are, essentially defining them in the end. A person is a culmination of their cultures,…

negative factor for health promotion and wellness. Those nurses may become annoyed with the families because they do not understand the traditional needed support of the Hispanic culture. Nurses need to become culturally competent to understand the Hispanic culture and to realize what interventions may be effective within their culture. While Lake Health does have areas of cultural competency to work on, there are some valuable areas of cultural competence. The CLAS standard of communication and…

For example, she was faced with both economic and cultural challenges when her husband left her for another woman. Although it is okay for men to do this in their culture, Rama still felt abandoned and felt like it was wrong. This is a cultural challenge that she faces. She tries to make the best of it by coming to a point in her life where she is okay with the past and become content with what has happened. The economic…

from a different background of religion, caste, ethnicity, and color. Multiculturalism Act of Canada signifies that all the residents are equal under the law. Individuals from various countries can keep their identities, religion and serve their culture under multiculturalism policy of Canada. According to the Multiculturalism policy, every individual has the right to live peacefully and keep their heritage identities in Canada. Canada considers as a multicultural country, but there are issues…