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Transcultural Nursing and Anthropology
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Transcultural Nursing and Anthropology
Transcultural Nursing and Anthropology
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1
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What is transcultural nursing?
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The practice of incorporating a patient's culture and values into their care.
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List four subfields of anthropology.
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Cultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Archeological Anthropology
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What is Paleoanthropology?
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The study of human evolution through the fossil and archaeological records.
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What is the first step in forensic anthropology when remains are found?
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Determining the big four: age, sex, race, and stature.
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What is urban anthropology?
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The study of immigrant communities in major cities.
6
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List three factors that influenced Dr. Leininger to establish transcultural nursing as a framework.
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1. Increased migration. 2. Rise in multicultural identities. 3. Increased use of technology in healthcare.
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List three more factors that influenced Dr. Leininger to establish transcultural nursing as a framework.
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4. Global cultural conflicts. 5. Increased international travel and work. 6. Rise in legal actions related to cultural issues in healthcare.
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What is transcultural nursing?
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A specific cognitive specialty in nursing that focuses on global cultures and comparative cultural caring, health, and nursing phenomena. Established in 1955.
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When were the foundations of transcultural nursing laid?
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Mid-1950s, with foundations laid by Peplau's mention of culture's impact on mental health in 1950 and Leininger's transcultural nursing model.
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When was the Transcultural Nursing Society (TCNS) established?
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1974
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How do Purnell and Paulanka define culture?
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The totality of socially transmitted behavioral patterns, arts, beliefs, values, customs, life ways, and all other products of human work and thought characteristic of a population that guide their worldview and decision making.
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What are the basic characteristics of culture?
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Learned, shared, associated with adaptation to the environment, and universal.
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What is the verbal and behavioral system of culture when it is transmitted from one generation to the other? a. Culture is learned b. Culture is shared c. Culture is adapted d. Culture is universal
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a. Culture is learned
14
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What is cultural awareness?
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Being sensitive to the differences and similarities between two cultures' life ways.
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What is cultural knowledge?
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Understanding values, customs, beliefs, and practices (religion, manner of dressing, language).
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What is cultural skill?
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Ability to understand, respect, and interact with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds.
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What is cultural desire?
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Genuine passion to be open and flexible with others from different cultures.
18
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List factors affecting approach to healthcare providers.
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Ethnicity, Generational status, Education, Religion, Previous experience with the primary health care system, Occupation and income level, Time dimensions, Space, Communication.
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Name a type of patient you might encounter in nursing.
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The self-diagnoser, The one with the overbearing family, The one you get attached to, The skeptic, The one that never goes to the doctor, The pampered patient, The one who thinks they're the nurse, The 'natural' patient.
20
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Give an example of a culture-based syndrome consideration.
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Pain, Blood, Biological Variations, Surface Variation, Anatomic Variation, Biochemical Variation, Differential Disease Susceptibility
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Define stereotype.
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The practice of ascribing specific characteristics, assigns inherent value to behaviors, or beliefs to all both individual living beings individuals belonging to a and entire ecosystems, particular cultural, ethnic, or considering them as ends in national group. themselves rather than as means to human ends.
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What is ethnocentrism?
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The perception that one's world view is the only acceptable truth and that one's beliefs, values, and sanctioned behaviors are superior to all others.
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List aspects of dominant value orientation.
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Beliefs about human nature, Beliefs about what causes disease, Beliefs about relationship to nature, Beliefs about health, Beliefs about purpose of life, Beliefs about who serves in the role of healer or what practices bring about healing.
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Name some factors affecting disease, illness, and health state.
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Biomedical variations, Death rituals, Nutrition/dietary habits, Religious and spiritual Family roles and beliefs and practices organization, patterns Health care practices Workforce issues Health care practitioners High-risk behaviors Environment Pregnancy and childbirth practices.
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What are some best practices for cultural competency?
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Value Diversity, Respect all cultures, Self-Awareness, Awareness and Acceptance of Differences, Dynamics of Differences, Accept Responsibility, Knowledge of Patient's Culture, Adaptation.
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What is a cultural assessment on a patient?
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A clinical method to examine a patient's ethnic background, cultural differences, religious preference, family patterns, food preferences, eating patterns, and health practices.
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What is cultural self-assessment?
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An ongoing process of critically examining one's own culture, history, ancestry, and context.
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What is the purpose of a health history?
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To gather subjective data and provide a comprehensive overview of a client's past and present health, examining how the person interacts with their environment.
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What is culturologic assessment?
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A systematic, comprehensive examination of individuals, families, groups, and communities regarding their health-related cultural beliefs, values, and practices.
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How can cultural beliefs and practices influence the nurse's ability to provide culturally competent nursing care?
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Health History provides a comprehensive overview of a clients past and present health, and it examines the manner in which the person interacts with the environment. Health History enables the nurse to assess health strengths, including cultural beliefs and practices that might influence the nurses ability to provide culturally competent nursing care.