Nursing Test 1
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- the process whereby culture is transmitted from one generation to the next.
- enculturation
- gradually incorporate aspects of the dominant culture.
- assimilate
- there are no universal standards, everything is context dependent.
- post modernism
- behaviors and practices of people can only be judged from the context of their future.
- cultural relativism
- modifying ones culture due to contact with other contacts
- acculturate
- intrusively applying the majority groups cultural view on people and families
- cultural imposition or imperialism
- the number of cases of a specific disease in existence in a given population at a certain time.
- prevalence
- proportion of disease to health in a community
- morbidity
- the frequency of death in a certain population or caused by a certain disease
- mortality
- the process through which individuals or groups are peripheralized on the basis of their identities, associations, experiences and environments.
- marginalization
- to be free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice
- fairness
- equal distribution of services regardless of need. Goal is equal distribution of services.
- equality
- services are provided based on need. goal is to reduce or eliminate health differences from factors that are avoidable or unfair.
- equity
- art of healing without surgery or drugs; discover and correct all mechanical disorders in human machine and direct recuperative power within the body to cure the disease.
- osteopathic medicine
- `form of healing by touch
- mesmerism
- prejudgement; an attitude or opinion formed without adequate reasons; oftentimes unfavorable based on fautly reasoning.
- prejudice
- legally binding documents that you can sign to specify the kind of treatment you want/do not want to be given if you cannot decide
- advance directives
- a document that allows you to tell your physician what to do if you are permanently unconscious or terminally ill. You can only say what you dont want.
- living will
- someone thats your agent and makes decisions for you. you can give specific rules or limitations.
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health care power of attorney
- spells out in order, who can make important health care decisions for patients who cant for themselves
- health care consent act