The document discusses key concepts related to cultural diversity and culturally competent nursing care. It defines culture and discusses the diverse groups that make up cultural diversity, including factors like race, religion, gender, and socioeconomic status. It also explains concepts like subcultures, dominant and minority groups, and cultural assimilation. The document emphasizes that providing culturally competent nursing care involves understanding patients' cultural backgrounds and delivering care respectfully and appropriately.

1. CULTURE By Ms.Jeena Aejy MS(N)

2. Included in cultural diversity are people of varying racial classification and national origin , religious affiliation, language , physical size, gender, sexual orientation, age disability, socio economic status , occupational status and geographic location

3. CONCEPTS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY Our society is made up of people from many different culturally diverse background.

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5. CULTURE A SHARED SYSTEM OF BELIEFS, VALUES AND BEHAVIORAL EXPECTATIONS THAT PROVIDE SOCIAL STRUCTURE FOR DAILY LIVING.IT INCLUDES BELIEFS, HABITS, LIKES, DISLIKES CUSTOMS AND RITUALS.

6. Culture Culture is the learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs, norms, and lifeways of a particular group that guide their thinking, decisions, and actions in patterned ways.

8. CULTURAL DIVERSITY Diverse groups in society,with racial classification and national origin,religious affiliation, language, physical size, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, socio economic status, occupational status and geographic location.

11. SUBCULTURE A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE MEMBERS OF A LARGER CULTURAL GROUP BUT HAVE CERTAIN ETHIC, OCCUPATIONAL OR PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS NOT COMMON TO LARGER CULTURE.

12. DOMINANT GROUP A GROUP WITHIN A COUNTRY OR SOCIETY THAT HAS THE MOST AUTHORITY TO CONTROL VALUES AND SANCTIONS.

13. MINORITY GROUPS MOST OFTEN HAS SOME PHYSICAL OR CULTURAL CHARACTERISTIC THAT IDENTIFIES THE PEOPLE WITH IT AS DIFFERENT

14. CULTURAL ASSIMILATION WHEN MEMBERS OF A MINORITY GROUP LIVE WITHIN A DOMINENT GROUP AND LOSE THE CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS THAT MADE THEM DIFFERENT. CULTURAL SHOCK THE FEELING A PERSON EXPERIENCES WHEN PLACED IN A DIFFERENT CULTURE.

15. RACE : racial categories are based on specific physical characteristics. STERIOTYPING: Assuming that all members of a culture, subculture or ethnic group act alike. CULTURAL IMPOSITION: The belief that everyone should conform to the majority belief system

16. CULTURE CONFLICT: The state that occurs when people become aware of cultural differences and proceeding as though they do not exist. PERSONAL SPACE : The area around a person regarded as part of the person; varying among people and cultural and ethnic groups.

17. ETHINICITY THE SENSE OF IDENTIFICATION WITH A COLLECTIVE CULTURAL GROUP,LARGELY BASED ON THE GROUP’S COMMON HERITAGE . .

18. EHINICITY INCLUDES LANGUAGE AND DIALECT, RELIGIOUS PRACTICE, LITERATURE, MUSIC,FOLKLORE, POLITICAL INTERESTS, FOOD PREFERENCES AND EMPLOYMENT PATTERNS

19. ETHNOCENTRISM: The belief that one’s ideas believes practices are the best , are superior, or are most preferred to those of others.

20. CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON HEALTH CARE Skin colour : e.g. anemic pallor, cyanosis and jaundice. Growth and development : tempo of growth , shape( Asian , African, Europeans….) Psychological characteristics :

21. CULTURALLY COMPETENT NURSING CARE Providing culturally competent nursing care means that care is planned and implemented in a way that is sensitive to the needs of the individuals families and groups from diverse cultural populations with in society .

22. LENINGER defined Trans cultural nursing as a comparative study of cultures to understand similarities and differences across human group The goal of trans cultural nursing is culturally congruent care.

23. Transcultural Nursing and Global Health

24. Transcultural Nursing Transcultural nursing focuses on holistic and comprehensive ways to know and serve people’s health care needs.

25. Transcultural Concepts Generic care Professional care Ethnocentrism Cultural imposition Cultural bias

26. Transcultural Concepts Cultural ignorance Cultural shock Cultural pain Cultural variation Cultural barriers Stereotyping

27. Transcultural Nursing Principles All human cultures have diverse living, caring, and healing modes that nurses must understand to work effectively with people Care is a basic human need and is the dominant focus of nursing Understanding one’s own culture is the first essential expectation to understand other cultures

28. Transcultural Nursing Principles People have a right to have their cultural values known, respected, understood, and used in nursing and health care services Transcultural nursing is concerned with comparative values, beliefs, and practices of specific cultures to provide meaningful, safe, and specific health care practices

29. Transcultural Nursing Principles Nurses use humanistic and scientific cultural care knowledge to provide care to people of different cultures Understanding culture care differences and similarities enables the nurse to respect clients and assist them to grow, maintain well-being, and prevent illness or premature death

30. Transcultural Nursing Principles A nurse’s ability to speak the client’s cultural language opens the door to understanding what the client is seeking or experiencing If the client’s cultural lifeways, values, and expressions do not immediately “make sense,” the nurse must continue to try to understand

31. Transcultural Nursing Principles In every culture, care, healing, and health practices are influenced by worldviews, environmental context, and social structure Cultures usually have two major types of health care systems: generic and professional

32. Transcultural Nursing Principles Cultures have their own culturally defined ways to promote and maintain health, face death, and deal with unfavorable conditions and crises Health care practices in Western and non-Western cultures have major differences that need to be understood when planning and providing care

33. A Role for Nurses Need expanding focus to consider the effects of global health issues on nursing practice

34. It is important to recognize that there are differences among groups and individuals. The nurse should not extend a stereotype or generalize common characteristics of a group to all members associated with that group.

35. IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF PATIENT CARE REDUCE HEALTH DISPARITIES ENHANCE CULTURAL COMPETENCE PROMOTE MULTICULTURAL HARMONY

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