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| Diversity is about __________ in age, gender, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, religion, mental/physical abilities, urban/rural, region, social/political class, migration and generation. |
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| What are the five Cultural Competencies? What are each supported by? |
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1. Cultural Assessment Skills -- s/b ethnocentrism reduction
2. Cultural Negotiation Skills -- s/b disease-illness distinction
3. Interpreter Use Skills -- s/b Communication Theory
4. Family assessment skills -- s/b Social Network theory
5. Community Partnership Skills -- s/b community based participatory research |
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| Define Cultural Competence: |
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-- Professional attitudes,
-- practice skills and
-- system savvy for cross cultural situations. |
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| R/T Cultural Competence, what are Practice Skills? |
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1. Being able to carry out a culturally competent assessment
2. attending to both biomedical and cultural features of the presenting problems
3. Being able to negotiate satisfactory tx plan w/o imposing your perspectives on the pt. |
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| R/T Cultural Competence, what are System Savvy? |
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| Ability to take the system into account during tx ESPECIALLY willingness and ability to change it when necessary to accomplish culturally appropriate goals--subvert a system to accomplish patient outcomes. |
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| R/T Cultural Competence, what is the significance of Professional Attitudes? |
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| Practioner's ability to overcome ethnocentrism in order to understand cultural patterns from the pt's perspective rather than their own (cultural relativism) |
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| What are five rationale for Cultural Competence? |
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1. Increasing social diversity
2. Increases pt copmliance and satisfaction
3. It is the law and JCAHO requires it
4. The Healthy People 2010: Eliminate Disparities
5. Changes in ways of doing business |
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| A learned, shared, symbolically transmitted design for living. |
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| Culture is a system of symbols which act to establish powerful _____ and ______ in humans by: |
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1. Formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and
2. Clothing these conceptions in such an aura of factuality that
3. The moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic. |
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| Describe CULTURE vs CULTURES |
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Culture is "the total lifeways of a human group. It consists of learned patterns of beliefs, customs, behaviors that are shared by groups of interacting individuals...as set of rules or standards for behavior.
CULTURES -- GROUPS OF PEOPLE WHO SHARE A COMMON CULTURE. |
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| The body of people who have a common culture. |
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| A population with a distinctive set of values and beliefs embedded within a common culture. |
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| Behavioral regularities r/t the continuity of social relationships that contribute meaning to life. |
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| Give some examples of CUSTOMS which are emotionally satisfying because they bring us together: |
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| Eating together, greeting people (shaking hands not appropriate in Thailand). |
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| A proposition accepted as true, eg the existence of a biophysical reality vs. a spiritual one. |
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| Gives examples of beliefs: |
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| Ghosts, spirits, gods -- what you believe in is in some sense actually REAL. |
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| A standard to evaluate beliefs and behaviors, eg work vs play, cleanliness, efficiency. |
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| Give an example of a value; |
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| someone compulsively on time, someone talking about the importance of their family for their well being. |
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| My culture's way of life is the ONLY CORRECT ONE. Other beliefs and behaviors are WRONG. Creates barriers to understanding and prevents accurate assessment r/t practioner's having ETHNOCENTRISM |
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| What are some ethnocentric reactions? |
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| define CULTURAL RELATIVISM: |
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| Undesrtanding cultural beliefs and behaviors in their cultural context, increases understanding and enhances assessment. |
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| Try to understand behaviors within their values _____ then w/in their biomedical context ____. |
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