5 Written Questions

1. Gender role - some patients just don't want a male nurse, they are made uncomfortable by this. Esp older women. We can't change this, and this is not our goal, we have to respect this, the patient is always right. There also might be cultural conflict with patient, and the patient might need a different nurse.
2. Take their income into consideration when you make recommendations about their home health care.
3. Stereotyping - avoid this!
   Cultural blindness
   Cultural imposition - be careful not to try to impose your values on others, on your patients.
   Cultural conflict - sometimes people may not like you, the nurse, for who you are, and you will have to deal with this an be flexible (let them have a different nurse).
4. Sometimes certain culture have a ... different sense of time and punctuality. Be sure to say "American Time."
5. Respect it! Depends on the patient's comfort level.

5 Matching Questions

1. Within culture...
2. Social Class
3. Faith Is Powerful Medicine
4. Religion: Spiritual Needs
5. Ethnicity

1. a minority groups typically do not have the same power as the majority, though this is sometimes not quite right. There are a lot more nurses than doctors in this country, but doctors have a lot more power than nurses.
2. b Not the same as race or culture, though they are sometimes used interchangebly.
   Many of us here are Hispanic, but not all of us are Columbians (?). Or not all Asians are Chinese.
   Sense of identification
   Common heritage - the North and South Koreans would identify with each other more than the Japanese.
   
   Belonging from birth or adoption
   
   People who share common values
3. c Cultural grouping of persons who through consensus, similarity of occupation, wealth or education develop like status, lifestyle, interests, attitudes...
4. d "Prayer, relaxation training and guided imagery..., have been shown to enhance immune function and delay disease progression."
5. e More than 1,200 studies: Impact of religion on mental & physical health (bullshit). We can support this if the patient wants it. Better health outcomes: less prone to depression, suicide, addictions, cut across age, gender, culture, geographic boundaries. We can support someone's beliefs even if we don't believe it ourselves.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Belief in a supernatural force that has power over the universe which commands worship and obedience.
   
   A system of beliefs, a comprehensive code of behavior.
   
   The conscious pursuit of any object the person holds as supreme.
   1. Culture...
   2. Subculture...
   3. Religion...
   4. Ethnicity
2. You may have to take into consideration income when making diet recommendations. There are cheap and nutritious meal plans.
   1. Ethnicity
   2. Within culture...
   3. Orientation to time
   4. Food and nutrition
3. guides behavior, is adapted or remains constant only as these satisfy needs of the group, and is learned. "Language is the primary means of
   transmitting culture."
   1. Religion...
   2. Subculture...
   3. Culture...
   4. Within culture...
4. Non-physical traits, such as values, beliefs, attitudes, and customs that are shared by a group of people and passed from one generation to another.
   1. Faith Is Powerful Medicine
   2. Subculture...
   3. What is "CULTURE"
   4. Within culture...
5. Assimilation occurs when one value is dropped and the value of the dominant culture is picked up.
   1. Within culture...
   2. Food and nutrition
   3. Assimilation/Acculturation
   4. Orientation to time

5 True/False Questions

1. Language and communication → You may have to take into consideration income when making diet recommendations. There are cheap and nutritious meal plans.

   True        False

2. Subculture... → guides behavior, is adapted or remains constant only as these satisfy needs of the group, and is learned. "Language is the primary means of
   transmitting culture."

   True        False

3. Race → There are many subgroups, many races, among Latinos. Race has more to do with physical characteristics. There are three main races, white, black, and Asian. A way to categorize subgroups according to specific physical characteristics:
   
   1. Skin pigmentation and hair texture
   2. Facial features and height

   True        False

4. Race → Not the same as race or culture, though they are sometimes used interchangebly.
   Many of us here are Hispanic, but not all of us are Columbians (?). Or not all Asians are Chinese.
   Sense of identification
   Common heritage - the North and South Koreans would identify with each other more than the Japanese.
   
   Belonging from birth or adoption
   
   People who share common values

   True        False

5. Spiritual and Cultural Needs of patients in nursing is a ... → Gender role - some patients just don't want a male nurse, they are made uncomfortable by this. Esp older women. We can't change this, and this is not our goal, we have to respect this, the patient is always right. There also might be cultural conflict with patient, and the patient might need a different nurse.

   True        False