EXAM WITH CORRECT SOLUTIONS.

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NUR 212 EXAM 2

EXAM WITH CORRECT SOLUTIONS.

acculturation - correct answer- Process of adapting to and adopting a new culture.

assimilation - correct answer- To become absorbed into another culture and adopt its characteristics.

culture - correct answer- Integrated patterns of human behavior that include the language, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups.

cultural care accommodation or negotiation - correct answer- Adapting or negotiating with the patient/families to achieve beneficial or satisfying health outcomes.

cultural care preservation or maintenance - correct answer- Retaining and/or preserving relevant care values so patients are able to maintain their well-being, recover from illness, or face handicaps and/or death.

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cultural care repatterning or restructuring - correct answer- Reordering, changing, or greatly modifying a patient's/family's customs for a new, different, and beneficial health care pattern.

cultural competence - correct answer- Process in which the health care professional continually strives to achieve the ability and availability to work effectively with individuals, families, and communities.

cultural imposition - correct answer- Using one's own values and customs as an absolute guide in interpreting behaviors.

cultural pain - correct answer- Feeling that a patient has after a health care worker disregards the patient's valued way of life.

culturally congruent care - correct answer- Care that fits people's valued life patterns and sets of meanings generated from the people themselves. Sometimes this differs from the professionals' perspective on care.

emic worldview - correct answer- Insider or native perspective.

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ethnicity - correct answer- Shared identity related to social and cultural heritage such as values, language, geographical space, and racial characteristics.

ethnocentrism - correct answer- Tendency to hold one's own way of life as superior to that of others.

ethnohistory - correct answer- Significant historical experiences of a particular group.

etic worldview - correct answer- Outsider's perspective.

fictive - correct answer- Nonblood kin; considered family in some collective cultures.

matrilineal - correct answer- Kinship that is limited to only the mother's side.

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subcultures - correct answer- Various ethnic, religious, and other groups with distinct characteristics from the dominant culture.

transcultural nursing - correct answer- Distinct discipline developed by Leininger that focuses on the comparative study of cultures to understand similarities and differences among groups of people.

biculturalism - correct answer- (sometimes known as multiculturalism) occurs when an individual identifies equally with two or more cultures

Cultural awareness - correct answer- An in-depth self- examination of one's own background, recognizing biases, prejudices, and assumptions about other people

Cultural knowledge - correct answer- : Obtaining sufficient

comparative knowledge of diverse groups, including their indigenous values, health beliefs, care practices, worldview, and bicultural ecology

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