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Nur 4150 exam 2 study guide
NUR 4150 Population Health
Nursing Exam 2 Topics
Chapter 5: Cultural
Influences
▪ Pages 70-80
• Ethnicity
• Cultural Diversity
• Communication
• Space
• Social organization
• Time perception
• Environmental Control
• Biological Variations
• Nutrition
• Culture, Diversity, &
social determinants of
health
o Cultural Competence
o Cultural Awareness
o Cultural Knowledge
o Cultural Encounter
o Cultural skill
o Cultural desire
• Culturally Competent Nursing Interventions
o Cultural preservation
o Cultural accommodation
o Cultural repatterning
o Cultural brokering
• Inhibitors to developing cultural competence
o Prejudice
o Racism
o Ethnocentrism
o Cultural blindness
o Cultural imposition
o Cultural relativism
o Cultural conflict
o Cultural shock
• Cultural Nursing assessment
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• Culture, Race, & Ethnicity
o Culture: Beliefs, values, and assumptions about life that are
widely held among a group of people and that are transmitted
across generations
o Race: Biological designation where group members share
features (e.g., skin color, bone structure, genetic traits such as
blood groupings)
o Ethnicity: shared feeling of peoplehood among a group of
individuals (Nationality, ancestry, language, etc.)
• Cultural Diversity
o Amount of variation that is represented among
populations based on lifestyle, ethnicity, race,
interest, across place, and place of origin across time
o ** If came to Mexican city from a small town in the mountains
you may both be Mexican, but you wouldn’t give same treatment
because you may have different beliefs and values.
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• Cultural Competence
o Culturally congruent behaviors, practice attitudes, and polices
that allow nurses to work effectively in cross-cultural situations
o Four principles of care:
▪ Designed for the specific client
▪ Based on the uniqueness of the person’s culture
and includes cultural norms and values
▪ Can include self-employment strategies to facilitate client
decision making in regard to health behavior
▪ Provided with sensitivity and is based on the cultural
uniqueness of clients
o What you are really looking at is the difference in cultures
▪ Question on test: If the nurse is making a specific care
plan for a specific person what would that be? Cultural
competence (because its based on the uniqueness of the
persons culture)
▪ 2 main ones in red** know these
• Designed for the specific client
• Based on the uniqueness of the person’s culture and
includes cultural norms and values
▪ Little Story: Big Mammas house in Fort Lauderdale, house
rebuilt on makeover show. She would take in children of the
community who didn’t have a place to go or needed
support they didn’t have. Doing health promotion project
on STIS at Big Mommas house. *You have to speak to
people in their language and a way they understand you
• Key Reasons Nurses Must Be Culturally Competent
o The nurse’s culture often differs from that of the client. (Different
understandings of communication, behaviors, and plans for
care).
o Nonculturally competent care. Could have negative impact such
as: may increase the cost of health care and decrease the
opportunity for positive client outcomes.
o Nonculturally competent care. Could have negative impact such
as: may increase the cost of health care and decrease the
opportunity for positive client outcomes.
▪ Covid 19 group they forgot translation for awareness and
testing: Creole!
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▪ During a hurricane when people are deaf or blind
sometimes, they are forgotten because they can't see or
hear the television
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