NSG2113 - Culture and Indigenous Health (week 7) Questions and Answers 2024/2025
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What is racism?
cultural and structural system that places value and gives opportunities to an
individual based on their race
What is expected from nurses in terms of racism?
That we maintain an attitude of professionalism and challenge any overt
discrimination that we see/experience...
NSG2113 - Culture and Indigenous
Health (week 7) Questions and Answers
2024/2025
What is racism?
cultural and structural system that places value and gives opportunities to an
individual based on their race
What is expected from nurses in terms of racism?
That we maintain an attitude of professionalism and challenge any overt
discrimination that we see/experience in the workplace
Why is racism in health care hard to manage?
We are often not aware that it is happening
What is culture?
Shared patterns of learned values and behaviours that are transmitted over time and
that distinguish the members of one group from another, including language, ethnicity,
spiritual and religious beliefs, socioeconomic class, gender, sexual orientation, age,
group history, geographic origin, education, and childhood/life experiences
Recent definitions of culture focus less on... and more on...
membership within a specific ethnic or racial group but rather on differences or
shared experiences meaning
Culture needs to be looked at from.... (what perspective?)
An individual patient basis; although they are part of a group that shares culture,
there may be individual differences
when many cultures co-exist in society and maintain their cultural differences
What is the "iceberg model" of culture?
Represents that culture has more deep meaning than what we see; surface culture
includes what can be observed - food, music, clothing, whereas deep culture includes
communication style and rules, manners, attitudes, approaches, important concepts
What is culturally competent care?
Nursing care is delivered based on knowledge of client's heritages, beliefs, and
attitudes
How does a nurse achieve culturally competent care?
By being flexible, sensitive, and open in their approach to working with clients
What are the two main BPG for cultural diversity in healthcare?
self awareness and communication differences
Describe how to achieve self-awareness
healthcare workers must acknowledge their own beliefs and values, reflect on any
biases they may have, be inclusive, value differences and call out racism
Describe how to overcome communication differences
do not make assumptions, be curious, ask for clarification
What has been consistently identified as barriers to the development of genuine relationships
imposing one's culture on another person, and viewing one's way of life to be more
valuable or important
Cultural imposition leads to...
misinterpretation of patients behaviours and ways service is provided
What are the 3 steps to cultural safety?
cultural awareness - understanding that there is a difference between cultures, what
makes up culture
cultural sensitivity - alerts the nurses of the legitimacy of difference and begins a process of
self-exploration
cultural safety - an outcome of nursing education that enables safe service to be defined by
those who receive the service
What are the CNO assumptions of cultural safety?
everyone has a culture that is individual, influenced by many factors, and dynamic
reactions to culture are often automatic and subconscious
culture is influenced by personal and professional values
the nurse is responsible for assessing and responding to the client's cultural expectations and
needs
What is cultural humility?
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