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RTE 1000 Chapter 10

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Chromosomal designation of male or female describes an individual's sex, gender, or biology class?
Chromosomal designation of male or female
Cultural ___________ means people now cross borders into other countries to work, go to school, receive med care, visit and live.
globalization
What are some societal biases geared towards baby boomers in the workforce?
-Valuing youth over age
-Viewing aging as something bad or undesirable
-Placing little value on contributions of senior citizens
-Favoring reactive instead of proactive approaches to policy dev and implementation
-Considering senior citizens to be mentally inferior
Below are some examples of what?
Age
Race
Ethnicity/national origin
Gender and sexual orientation
Mental and physical ability
Religion
Human Diversity Characteristics (Traits)
What was passed with the intent of preventing employment discrimination based solely on age in hiring, promotion, job assignment, compensation, and termination?
Age Discrimination in Employment Act (29 USC 621-634)
Which generation is the most discussed subset because of sheer numbers, born 1946-1964?
Baby Boomers
Assimilation is?
the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
Biculturalism is?
Partial identification with two cultures
As a compassionate healthcare worker, it is important to understand and work with differences between ___________ _____________.
Cultural (Core) Values
The 5 key Cultural Competencies are:
1. Valuing Diversity
2. Possessing the capacity for cultural self-assessment
3. Consciousness of the dynamics of cross-cultural interaction
4. Institutionalizing cultural knowledge
5. Dev adaptations of service delivery reflecting an understanding of a multicultural environment
These core values belong to what Ethnic Group?
-Individualism
-Competition
-Affluence (consumerism, and material comfort)
-Personal achievement and success
US mainstream
When do hospitals have diversity training?
As a new employee and annually
What guides our actions in RT?
Code of Ethics
If your coworker believes their own ethnic and cultural group is superior and has a corresponding disdain for all other groups, they are being?
Ethnocentric
Some African American Core Values are:
Extended family
Cooperation
Spirituality
Interdependence
Some Latin Core Values are:
Extended family
Father as patriarch
Respect
Hierarchical relationships
Some Mexican American Core Values are:
Extended family
Curanderism (Mexican Folk Healing)
Freq contact with native country
Respect
Some Native American Core Values are:
Extended Family
Spiritualism
Collectivism
Unified whole universe
Some US Mainstream Core Values are:
Individualism
Affluence (material comfort)
Competition
Personal achievement and success
All of these are core values of African American cultures, execpt ? Multi Answer
1. Extended Family
2. Collectivism
3. Cooperation
4. Respect
5. Spirituality
6. Interdependence
These are NOT African American core values:
2 and 4
Curanderism is a cultural core value for Mexican American's? True or False
True, Curanderism is also known as Mexican Folk Healing
Which one of these cultural groups exhibits prevalent individualism core value?
Mexican American
Latino
Native American
United States Mainstream
African American
US Mainstream
What are health care institutions doing to overcome linguistic barriers?
-Hiring additional staff who are bilingual and bicultural
-Encouraging employees to become bilingual or multilingual
Providing:
-Medical Interpreters
-Translators
-Medical documents in different languages
Expecting a child to play with race cars, dump trucks, but not barbie dolls, because the child is a boy, is considered?
Gender Role Stereotyping
An individual's inner sense of maleness or femaleness that may be influenced by several factors, is called?
Gender Identity
While out at dinner, you and your friends witness an older group of thin females, speaking ill regarding the weight of a larger lady at the table next to them, insinuating she should be more like them.
What cultural characteristics do they seem to display?
Ethnocentrism
If you have a patient who is a close talker, which of the 6 areas of cultural diversity may affect you?
Space
The 6 areas of cultural diversity differences that health care providers need to understand and influence the delivery of care are:
-Communication
(Ability to convey and receive Info)
-Space
(Distance extending in all directions)
-Time
(Period of duration)
-Environmental Control
(Ability of people to control nature)
-Biological Variations
(Eth/Racial diff in body, skin color, hair texture, and other physical traits)
-Social Organizations
(Pattern of behavior related to cultures through enculturation process)
Biologic Variations is an area of cultural diversity that influence delivery of care, what are examples of this area?
Body build and structure
Skin color -- tone, texture, healing abilities
In 1993, what was put into place to eradicate world discrimination based on disability?
Vienna Declaration for Human Rights
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