FGCU NURSING: HEALTH ASSESSMENT
PART EXAM 1 KEY TERMS PART 2
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acculturation
✓ -:- process of social and psychological exchanges with encounters
between persons of different cultures, resulting in changes in either
group
cultural and linguistic competence
✓ -:- a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come
together in a system among professionals that enables work in cross -
cultural situations
cultural care
✓ -:- professional health care that is culturally sensitive, appropriate, and
competent
culture
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✓ -:- the nonphysical attributes of a person - the thoughts,
communications, actions, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic,
religious, or social groups
ethnicity
✓ -:- a social group within the social system that claims to possess
variable traits such as a common geographic origin, migratory status, and
religion
ethnocentrism
✓ -:- tendency to view your own way of life as the most desirable,
acceptable, or best and to act in a superior manner to another culture's
way of life
folk healer
✓ -:- lay healer in the person's culture apart from the biomedica l or
scientific health care system
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health or illness
✓ -:- the balance or imbalance of the person, both within one's being
(physical, mental, and/or spiritual) and in the outside world (natural,
communal, and/or metaphysical)
religion
✓ -:- an organized system of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and
purpose of the universe, as well as attendance at regular services
socialization
✓ -:- the process of being raised within a culture and acquiring the
characteristics of that group
spirituality
✓ -:- a broad term focused on a connection to something larger than
oneself, and a belief in transcendence
title VI (6) of the civil rights act of 1964
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