Cultural Competence
Key Terms for Cultural Competence Cultural Competence: The effective integration of cultural awareness and cultural knowledge to meet needs of culturally diverse clients
Cultural Accommodation: Supporting and facilitating the use of cultural practices that have not been found to be harmful to the client.
Cultural Repatterning: Working with clients to make changes in health practices when the client’s cultural behaviors are harmful or decrease their well being.
Cultural Preservation: The support and use of scientifically supported cultural practices that promote health care.
Cultural Brokering: Advocating, mediating, negotiating, and intervening between the client’s culture and the biomedical health care culture on behalf of clients.
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Key Terms for barriers or inhibitors to developing cultural competence:
Stereotyping: Attributing certain beliefs and behaviors about a group to an individual without giving adequate attention to individual differences
Racism: A form of prejudice and refers to the belief that person who are born into a particular group are inferior.
Ethnocentricity: A type of cultural prejudice at the cultural population level, is the belief that one’s own group determines the standards for behavior by which all other groups are to be judged.
Cultural Blindness: Is the tendency to ignore all differences between cultures and to act as though the differences do not exist and act in order to treat all people the same.
Cultural Conflict: Is a perceived threat that may arise from a misunderstanding of expectations between clients and nurses when either group is not aware of cultural differences.
Culture Shock: Is the feeling of helplessness, discomfort, and disorientation experienced by an individual attempting to understand or effectively adapt to another cultural group that differs in practices, values and beliefs. It results from the anxiety caused by losing familiar sights, sounds and
Cultural Accommodation: Supporting and facilitating the use of cultural practices that have not been found to be harmful to the client.
Cultural Repatterning: Working with clients to make changes in health practices when the client’s cultural behaviors are harmful or decrease their well being.
Cultural Preservation: The support and use of scientifically supported cultural practices that promote health care.
Cultural Brokering: Advocating, mediating, negotiating, and intervening between the client’s culture and the biomedical health care culture on behalf of clients.
Cultural …show more content…
Key Terms for barriers or inhibitors to developing cultural competence:
Stereotyping: Attributing certain beliefs and behaviors about a group to an individual without giving adequate attention to individual differences
Racism: A form of prejudice and refers to the belief that person who are born into a particular group are inferior.
Ethnocentricity: A type of cultural prejudice at the cultural population level, is the belief that one’s own group determines the standards for behavior by which all other groups are to be judged.
Cultural Blindness: Is the tendency to ignore all differences between cultures and to act as though the differences do not exist and act in order to treat all people the same.
Cultural Conflict: Is a perceived threat that may arise from a misunderstanding of expectations between clients and nurses when either group is not aware of cultural differences.
Culture Shock: Is the feeling of helplessness, discomfort, and disorientation experienced by an individual attempting to understand or effectively adapt to another cultural group that differs in practices, values and beliefs. It results from the anxiety caused by losing familiar sights, sounds and