NUR 2092 Health Assessment

NUR 2092 Health Assessment
1. Cultural
Answer
care is professional health care that is culturally sensitive, appropriate, and competent
2. Biomedical
Answer
theory assumes that all events in life have a cause and effect, that the human body functions
more or less mechanically.
3. Religion
Answer
an organized system of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, belief
in a superhuman power to be obeyed and worshiped as the creators and rulers of the universe (
called by the names of Allah, God, Yahweh, Jehovah)
4. ethnicity
Answer
a social group within the social system that claims to possess variable traits such as a common
geographic origin, migratory status, and religion
5. Magicoreligious
Answer
the basic premise is that the world is an arena in which super- natural forces dominate; the fate
of the world and those in it depends on the action of the supernatural forces for good or evil
6. acculturation
Answer
process of social and psychological exchanges with encounters between persons of different
cultures, resulting in changes in either group