FGCU Nursing: Health Assessment Part EXAM 1 Key Terms Part 2 Updated 2024/2025 Verified 100%

title VI (6) of the civil rights act of 1964 - a federal law that mandates that when people with limited English proficiency (LEP) seek health care in health care settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, daycare centers, and mental health centers, services cannot be denied to them ethnicity - a social group within the social system that claims to possess variable traits such as a common geographic origin, migratory status, and religion cultural care - professional health care that is culturally sensitive, appropriate, and competent culture - the nonphysical attributes of a person- the thoughts, communications, actions, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups ethnocentrism - tendency to view your own way of life as the most desirable, acceptable, or best and to act in a superior manner to another culture's way of life folk healer - lay healer in the person's culture apart from the biomedical or scientific health care system health or illness - the balance or imbalance of the person, both within one's being (physical, mental, and/or spiritual) and in the outside world (natural, communal, and/or metaphysical) acculturation - process of social and psychological exchanges with encounters between persons of different cultures, resulting in changes in either group religion - an organized system of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, as well as attendance at regular servicessocialization - the process of being raised within a culture and acquiring the characteristics of that group spirituality - a broad term focused on a connection to something larger than oneself, and a belief in transcendence values - a desirable or undesirable state of affairs and a universal feature of all cultures cultural and linguistic competence - a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system among professionals that enables work in cross-cultural situations child emotional abuse - any pattern of behavior that harms a child's emotional development or sense of self-worth. It includes frequent belittling, rejection, threats, and withholding love and support child neglect - failure to provide for a child's basic needs (physical, educational, medical, and emotional) child physical abuse - physical injury resulting from punching, beating, kicking, biting, burning, shaking, or otherwise harming a child. Even if the parent or caregiver did not intend to harm the child, such acts are considered abuse when done purposefully child sexual abuse - includes fondling a child's genitals, incest, penetration, rape, sodomy, indecent exposure, and commercial exploitation through prostitution or the production of pornographic materials elder abuse - willful infliction of force that results in bodily harm, pain, and/or impairment on a person age 65 years or older. Examples include pushing, slapping, hitting, shaking, burning, and rough handling elder neglect (physical) - physical harm (actual or potential) to a person age 65 years or older because of failure to provide for the person's well-being. Examples include inadequate feeding and hydration, unsanitary living conditions, and poor personal hygieneintimate partner violence (IPV) - physical and/or sexual violence (use of physical force) or threat of such violence; also psychological or emotional abuse and/or coercive tactics when there has been prior physical and/or sexual violence between spouses or non-marital partners (dating, boyfriend-girlfriend) or former spouses or non-marital partners