Culture and Implicit Bias questions with answers

Culture and Implicit Bias implicit bias health disparities - correct answer inadequate patient assessments, inappropriate diagnosis and treatments, less time involved in patient care, patient discharges with insufficient follow-up implicit bias - correct answer form of bias that occurs unintentionally and automatically but still controls judgements and decision making when is implicit bias heightened? - correct answer in stressful situations; less time and energy to question our assumptions Consequences/characteristics of Implicit Bias - correct answer contributes to health disparities, heightened in stressful situations, part of human condition, affects patient perception of us why is implicit bias a part of the human condition? - correct answer we consciously categorize and assign judgements to make sense of data how does implicit bias change patient perception? - correct answer view us as less compassionate, poorer communicators, and delivering a lower quality of care Managing implicit bias - correct answer recognize habit's damaging effects, make commitment to break habit, use bias-mitigating strategies, practice more desirable habits counterstereotypic imaging - correct answer purposefully identifies members of a group who counter the stereotypical image of the group and replace automatic biased image with a positive one emotional regulation - correct answer reflects on negative reactions to patients, intentionally strive to be empathetic, patient, and compassionate habit replacement - correct answer frame biases as bad habits to be broken, replace bad habit with habit of being accepting and caring increasing opportunities for contact - correct answer seek to develop relationships with members of a group to which nurse does not belong with goal of dissolving stereotypes individuation - correct answer seeks to see patients as individuals instead of members of stigmatized group mindfulness - correct answer nurse purposely takes time to calm thoughts and feelings by being mindful of present moment partnership building - correct answer intentionally frame clinical encounter as one in which the nurse and patient are equals working collaboratively towards same goal perspective taking - correct answer nurse purposely and empathetically thinks about what the patient is thinking and feeling, stimulating feelings of caring and compassion stereotype replacement - correct answer nurse reflects on negative reactions to members of vulnerable populations; considers reason for feeling and commits to respond with compassion in the future culture - correct answer dynamic and changing; relational process between people, selectively responding to and integrating particular historical/social/political and linguistic structures structural competence - correct answer ability to see structural influences structural humility - correct answer ability to recognize complexity of contextual constraints and our own limitations Viewing culture in a relational way - correct answer see culture contextually, avoid confusing culture with ethnicity/nationality/race/religion, consider people as related to multiple cultures, examine how culture is infused with power