Miller test one (2)
Cultural and spiritual aspects of pt care
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- Stereotype
- A set opinion or befief about a group of beople that is applied to an individual
- Cultural competence
- having an awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, and environment without letting them have an undue influence on those from other backgrounds
- Circumcision
- removal of the foreskin (prepuce), exposing the glans penis; the act of circumcising performed on males eight days after birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite,, The visible sign of God's covenant, it sets God's people apart from other nations
- Chi'i
- universal life force or energy
- Bias
- a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
- Ethnic
- referring to a group within a group within a race usually differentiated by geographic, religious, social, or language differences
- Atheist
- a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a suprene or higher beings
- Prejudice
- a positive or negative attitude or opinion that is unsupported by evidence
- Spiritual distress
- Feelings of guilt and unworthiness, abandonment, anger,m despair, or hopelessness; need to seek forgiveness; conflict between one's religious or spiritual beliefs and medical treatment
- Faith
- A belief that cannot be proven, or for which no material evidence exists
- Patriarchal
- male led society and household
- Yin
- A force that is negative, dark, cold, or feminine
- World view
- The perspective a culture takes of the world, which is shared by cultural group members, and which influences health and illness beliefs
- Matriarchal
- the female head of a family or tribe
- Rituals
- a ceremonial act
- Transcultural nursing
- Multicultural nursing care that recognizes cultural diversity and is sensitive to the needs of the patient and family
- Race
- A biologic way of categorizing people based on physical characteristics, such as skin color and texture, facial characteristics, and body proportions
- Generalization
- idea that something is true about a whole group;-, The conclusion that the results obtained from a sample apply also to the population from which the sample was taken
- Holistic
- Involving all of something; specifically, all of someone's physical, mental, and social conditions, not just the physical when treating an illness.
- Personal space
- acceptable or comfortable space between two people when conversing
- Yang
- A force that is positive, light, warm, or masculine
- Curandero
- a Mexican man who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans
- Kosher
- food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law
- Subcultures
- A smaller group within the culture whose members have similar views and goals in addition to or in place of those of the main culture
- Culture
- Values, beliefs, and practices shared by the majority within a group of people
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Refraining from using offensive language , respecting accepted patterns of communication, and refraining from speaking in ways that are disrespectful of a person's cultural beliefs
- Communion
- The most important sacrament (church ritual) was called communion, in which people took bread and wine to remind them of Jesus's death on the cross for their sins.
- Dialects
- different forms of the same language that have unique words, meanings, and pronounciations
- Cultural Awareness
- conscious and informed recognition of the differences and similarities between varied cultural or ethnic groups
- Beliefs
- a conviction or opinion that one considers to be true
- Baptism
- a religious sacrament symbolically nusing water that results in admission of the recipient int the community of Christians
- Shaman
- A member of certain tribal societies who acts as a medium between the visible world and an invisible spirit world and who practices for purposes of healing divination, and control over natural events
- Agnostic
- A person who doubts the existence of God because it can't be proved or disproved
- Spirituality
- an intangible element of religion that concerns the spirit or soul
- Values
- A measure of worth or efficiency: an ideal, custom, or institution of a society toward which the members of the group have an affective regard ( emotional connection)
- Egalitarian
- authority more or less equally divided between people or groups, for ex. between husband and wife in a family
- Ethnocentrism
- the attitude that one's own culture is superior to any other culture. The tendency of human beings to feel that their way of thinking, believing, and doing things is the only way or the only right way
- Religion
- A formalized system of belief and worship