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level: Cultural Competency for Nurses

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level questions: Cultural Competency for Nurses

Question	Answer
Is care guided by cultural aspects and respects individual differences	Transcultural nursing
Terminologies: Are norms and patterns of behavior unique to one particular culture.	Culture-specific values
Terminologies: Refers to vales, norms, and patterns shared across almost all cultures.	Culture universal vales
Terminologies: refers to the cultural group into which a person was born, although the term is sometimes used in a narrower context to mean only race	ethnicity
Terminologies: A social construct, refers to a category of people who share a socially recognized physical characteristic, often skin color or facial features. It can also refer to a group of people who share the same ancestry.	Race
Terminologies: refers to the loss of ethnic traditions because of disuse.	Acculturation
Terminologies: means people blend into the general population or adopt the vales of the dominant culture.	Cultural assimilation
Terminologies: is the belief one's own culture is superior to all others.	wthnocentrism
Terminologies: is being aware cultural differences exist.	Cultural awareness
Terminologies: is respecting cultural differences or diversity.	Cultural competence
Terminologies: is a lifelong process of self-reflection and self-critique that begins, not with an assessment of a patient's beliefs, but rather with an assessment of your own.	Cultural humility
Terminologies: the usual values of a group	Mores or norms
Terminologies: actions not acceptable to a culture	Taboos
Terminologies: Taboos: universal taboos:	murder, incest, and cannibalism