NURS 311: Patient Centered Care Questions With 100% Correct Answers.

"Through patients eyes" - value seeing health care situations through their eyes, and respect and encourage individual expression of patient values, preferences and expressed needs. Awareness - Am I aware of my biases and prejudices towards other cultural groups, as well as racism and other "isms" in healthcare? Culture - A pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self-defintions, norms, roles, and values that can occur among those who speak a particular language, and live in a defined geographical region. Desire - Do I really "want to" become culturally competent? Encounters - Do I seek out face-to-face and other types of interactions with individuals who are different from myself? Ethnicity - Common ancestry that leads to shared values and beliefs Ethnocentrism - the inclination to view one's own cultural group as superior to others and to view differences negatively. Knowledge - Am I knowledgeable about the worldviews of different cultural and ethnic groups, as well as knowledge in the field of bio-cultural ecology? Patient-Centered Care - Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient's preference, values, and needs. Skill - Do I have the skill of conducting a cultural assessment in a sensitive manner?