Increase in elderly population - Answers The elderly consume more health care
culturally congruent care - Answers care that fits a person's life patterns, values, and system of meaning
Accept people religious/moral/ethical beliefs against your own
African Americans - Answers High blood pressure
Diabetes
unplanned change - Answers occurs spontaneously or randomly
GREAT when PLANNED
planned change - Answers Require experience & skill
Done by committee/administratives
accidental change - Answers Imbalance system
Met with hostility & resistance
Change in nursing usually - Answers Forced or unplanned
ethical dilemma - Answers a situation in which you have to decide whether to pursue a course of action
that may benefit you or your organization but that is unethical or even illegal
Ethic - Answers Group within a cultural systems/ distinct classification
Religion, culture, language, appearance
Race - Answers Set of distinct characteristics genetically /biologically transmitted
gerontological nursing - Answers nursing practice that promotes wellness and highest quality of life for
aging individuals
cultural competence: sensitivity - Answers Able to meet needs more successfully
cultural competence: dignity - Answers Crucial to treat patients with
cultural competence: knowledge - Answers About their culture only occurs with effort
Cultural competence: acceptance - Answers Necessary to provide culturally competence care
Barriers to culturally competent care - Answers Ethnocentrism
, Cultural imposition
Cultural blindness
Stereotypes
Prejudice
Racism
Cultural conflict
Cultural shock
Ethnocentrism - Answers belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group
Greatest barrier
cultural imposition - Answers When one person imposes his or her beliefs, values, and practices on
another because he or she believe his or her ideals are superior
cultural blindness - Answers when one ignores differences and proceeds as though they do not exist
Stereotyping - Answers Assuming that everyone in a particular group is the same.
prejudice - Answers Strong negative feelings for person of a specific culture
Racism - Answers Racial prejudice
Cultural conflict - Answers Enter a power struggle with another person
Cultural shock - Answers Emotional shock by being immersed in a different culture
Lewin's Theory of Change - Answers 1). Unfreezing: The need for change is recognized.
2). Moving: Change is initiated after a careful process of planning.
3). Refreezing: Change becomes operational.
Restraining forces : there is a reason behind every behavior
Restraining forces - Answers Realities that tell people not to participate in a certain behavior
driving force - Answers Urges /motivations for people to participate in the behavior
Transition: Developmental - Answers Aging