Chapter 5 Stanhope Community Health Questions and Answers Graded A+
Culture - AnswersSet of beliefs, values, and assumptions about life that is widely held among a group of
people and that is transmitted across generations
Race - AnswersPrimarily a social classification that relies on physical markers such as son color to
identify group membership
Ethnicity - AnswersShared feeling of peoplehood among a group of individuals. reflects cultural
membership and is based on individuals sharing similar cultural patterns (beliefs, values, customs,
behaviors, traditions) that, over time, create a common history that is resistant to change
Cultural Competence - Answers(in nurses) A combination of culturally congruent behaviors, practice
attitudes, and policies that allow nurses to work effectively in cross-cultural situations.
Cultural Awareness - AnswersSelf-examination and in-depth exploration of one's own beliefs and values
as they influence behavior. Nurses that are culturally aware are able to learn about the cultural
dimensions of clients, understand their own behavior and how it helps or hinders the delivery of
competent care to persons from cultures other than their own, recognize that health is expressed
differently across cultures and that culture influences an individual's responses to health, illness, death,
and disease
Cultural Knowledge - AnswersInformation about organizational elements of diverse cultures and ethnic
groups
Cultural Skill - AnswersEffective integration of cultural awareness and cultural knowledge to obtain
relevant cultural data and meet the needs of culturally diverse clients.
Cultural Encounter - AnswersProcess that permits nurses to seek opportunities to engage in cross-
cultural interactions
Cultural Desire - AnswersNurse's intrinsic motivation to provide culturally competent care
Cultural Preservation - AnswersNurse supports and facilitates the use of scientifically supported cultural
practices from a person's culture along with those from the biomedical health care system
(Acupuncture)
Cultural Accommodation - AnswersNurse supports and facilitates clients in their use of cultural practices
when such cultural practices are not harmful to clients.
Cultural Repatterning - AnswersNurse works with clients to help them reorder, change, or modify their
cultural practices when these practices are harmful to them
Cultural brokering - AnswersAdvocating, mediating, negotiating, and intervening between the client's
culture and the biomedical health care culture on behalf of clients.
Culture - AnswersSet of beliefs, values, and assumptions about life that is widely held among a group of
people and that is transmitted across generations
Race - AnswersPrimarily a social classification that relies on physical markers such as son color to
identify group membership
Ethnicity - AnswersShared feeling of peoplehood among a group of individuals. reflects cultural
membership and is based on individuals sharing similar cultural patterns (beliefs, values, customs,
behaviors, traditions) that, over time, create a common history that is resistant to change
Cultural Competence - Answers(in nurses) A combination of culturally congruent behaviors, practice
attitudes, and policies that allow nurses to work effectively in cross-cultural situations.
Cultural Awareness - AnswersSelf-examination and in-depth exploration of one's own beliefs and values
as they influence behavior. Nurses that are culturally aware are able to learn about the cultural
dimensions of clients, understand their own behavior and how it helps or hinders the delivery of
competent care to persons from cultures other than their own, recognize that health is expressed
differently across cultures and that culture influences an individual's responses to health, illness, death,
and disease
Cultural Knowledge - AnswersInformation about organizational elements of diverse cultures and ethnic
groups
Cultural Skill - AnswersEffective integration of cultural awareness and cultural knowledge to obtain
relevant cultural data and meet the needs of culturally diverse clients.
Cultural Encounter - AnswersProcess that permits nurses to seek opportunities to engage in cross-
cultural interactions
Cultural Desire - AnswersNurse's intrinsic motivation to provide culturally competent care
Cultural Preservation - AnswersNurse supports and facilitates the use of scientifically supported cultural
practices from a person's culture along with those from the biomedical health care system
(Acupuncture)
Cultural Accommodation - AnswersNurse supports and facilitates clients in their use of cultural practices
when such cultural practices are not harmful to clients.
Cultural Repatterning - AnswersNurse works with clients to help them reorder, change, or modify their
cultural practices when these practices are harmful to them
Cultural brokering - AnswersAdvocating, mediating, negotiating, and intervening between the client's
culture and the biomedical health care culture on behalf of clients.
