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Culture in Nursing Care
Home | Introduction to culture and ethnicity | The Individual | The Family | The Community | The Nurse | Links | Bibliography | S.O.P.H.I.A.

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Welcome to our web site!

On this home page, we'll introduce you to our presentation on culture in the context to nursing care.

CUL·TURE  audio  (klchr) KEY  

noun:

    1. The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought.
    2. These patterns, traits, and products considered as the expression of a particular period, class, community, or population: Edwardian culture; Japanese culture; the culture of poverty.
    3. These patterns, traits, and products considered with respect to a particular category, such as a field, subject, or mode of expression: religious culture in the Middle Ages; musical culture; oral culture.
    4. The predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize the functioning of a group or organization.

Reference: American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language

ETH·NIC  audio  (thnk) KEY  

adjective:

    1. Of or relating to a sizable group of people sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage.
    2. Being a member of a particular ethnic group, especially belonging to a national group by heritage or culture but residing outside its national boundaries: ethnic Hungarians living in northern Serbia.
    3. Of, relating to, or distinctive of members of such a group: ethnic restaurants; ethnic art.

noun:

A member of a particular ethnic group, especially one who maintains the language or customs of the group.

Reference: American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language

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Culture in healthcare defines both the patient and the caregiver.

TEAM MEMBERS:
 
Michael Brakel
Donna Crowhurst
Evelyn Wiebe-Anderson


California State University-Chico
Nursing 640-Advanced Concepts for Adult Nursing Care

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GOALS FOR THIS SITE ARE TO:
 
  • Provide a brief outline of what transcultural healthcare encompasses.  We will focus specifically on nursing as it applies to bedside nursing care and care planning. 
  • Define the subject of culturally competent care as the ideal standard of nursing care.
  • Identify nursing care that can be considered culturally biased by examples in journal studies.
  • Highlight how the nurse can educate himself/herself on how to be more culturally competent by using self-assessments and case studies.
  • Highlight government and educational websites through the use of hyperlinks connected to phrases and pictures located on the site.
  • Link the competence (or lack of) to disparities of healthcare related to the individual, family, and community.
  • Highlight how the nurse can become culturally competent by gaining the desire to learn and move through the phases of cultural: (a) awareness, (b) skill, (c) knowledge and (d) encounters.