Culture and Healthcare Communication

LEARN model: The nurse suggests the pt choose more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains as part of their diet.

Domains of Cultural Assessment Model: Personal heritage, communication, family roles and organization, workforce issues

Acceptance of biases and stereotypes attributed to a group:

A particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage:

States that "Care" is the essence of nursing:

LEARN model: The nurse and pt discuss some Ca+-rich foods commonly eaten in the pt's culture to prevent bone loss.

A belief that one’s own culture is superior to others:

Holds that each culture is unique, and its merits should be judged only on the basis of its own values and standards:

Being on time for an appointment is important in this type of culture:

Asian and Latino cultures are characterized as what type of culture?

LEARN model: Pt. describes what she thinks caused back pain, onset, characteristics of pain, and pain frequency.

A complex social concept consisting of family customs, health beliefs, values, and ethnic identities:

A person’s awareness of a shared cultural heritage with others based on common historical bonds such as ancestry & race:

LEARN model: The nurse describes to the pt. how narrowing of blood vessels occurs with high fat, high cholesterol foods.

Conversations taking place between people from different cultures:

Openness, self-awareness, being egoless & using self-reflection & critique after willingly interacting w/ diverse people

The social customs, expected behaviors, cultural beliefs, values, language passed down from generation to generation:

How immigrants from a different culture learn & choose to adapt to the norms of a new culture:

A set of cultural behaviors/attitudes integrated so professionals can work effectively in cross-cultural situations:

LEARN Model: The nurse understands the Chinese health practice of drinking hot water instead of ice water.

Examine culture from our patient's point of view & attend to their values and beliefs about illness:

North Americans and Western European descent are characterized as what type of culture?

A term used to describe social variations between cultural groups:

Intercultural communication is an interactive process between representational systems of communication(sender/receiver)

Considers cultural competence from a macrolevel (global society, community, family, down to a microlevel of a person):

When an individual from a different culture fully adopts the behaviors, customs, values of the mainstream culture:

The meaning attached to words is influenced by each person’s cultural knowledgebase:

Having a knowledgeable, accepting, open attitude that enables us to work effectively with diverse patients:

The outlook a person develops through when they consider others in groups, nations, and globally:

A 28-year-old patient from Mexico consults her parents and siblings about whether she should go through with a surgery:

Which factors lead to poor health outcomes? (Select 2 correct answers)

Variations among and across groups such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, & physical and mental abilities:

Appropriate responsiveness to attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of people that share a common & distinctive heritage