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Culture Influences

Ch. 4 Cultural Influences on Nursing Care

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Acculturation assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one.
Belief concepts that a person holds to be true.
Cultural relating to the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a society.
Cultural Assimilation occurs when a new member takes on the dominant culture's values, beliefs, and practices, sometimes at the cost of losing some of his or her cultural heritage.
Cultural Awareness being aware of history and ancestry and having an appreciation of and attention to the crafts, arts, music, foods, and clothing of various cultures.
Cultural Competence having an awareness of one's own culture and not letting it have an undue influence over another person's culture.
Cultural Conflict when one's own culture conflicts with a new culture.
Cultural Diversity representing two or more cultures; the differences among cultures.
Cultural Sensitivity being aware of and sensitive to cultural differences. Avoiding behavior or language that may be offensive to another person's cultural beliefs.
Cultural Shock when values, beliefs, and practices sanctioned by the new culture
Culture the socially transmitted behavior patterns, beliefs, values, customs, arts and all other characteristics of people that guide their worldview.
Customs the usual ways of acting in a given circumstance or something that an individual or group does out of habit.
Ethnic pertaining to a religious, racial, national, or cultural group.
Ethnocentrism the tendency to think that one's own ways of thinking, believing, and acting are the only right ways.
Practice performing an action repeatedly.
Spiritual relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.
Spirituality the essence of being; it gives meaning and purpose to our existence.
Stereotype a opinion or belief about a group of people that is ascribed to an individual.
Traditions practices and customs handed down through the generations, often by word of mouth.
Values ideals or concepts that give meaning to an individual's life.
Worldview the way individuals look on the world to form values and beliefs about life and the world around them.
Created by: Jessica Venyke
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