| Native Americans: | No eye contact
Speak in low tone
Touch hand for greetings
Indian time: do not arrive on a specified time
Harmony with nature
Sacred meal: blue meal
DM type 1/Juvenile DM
Renal Failure
Alcoholism
Lowest survival for cancer
Encourage massage of mother & child
Prohibit touching of dead body
Encourage to bring personal items to make them comfortable |
| White Americans: | Future time: On-time
Eye contact
Germ theory
Autopsy- ok |
| White Americans: Leading causes of death: | 1. CAD's
2. MI
3. Cancer
4. Respiratory disease
5. Accidents
6. Diabetes Mellitus
7. Influenza
8. Pneumonia
9. Alzheimer's
10. Kidney disease
11. Septicemia |
| Asian/Chinese American: | Fruits and vegetables
Reluctant to donate blood
40 days belief
Flexible Time Schedule
Professional Interpreter
Eye avoidance
Do not touch head
Smiles and not without understanding |
| Asian/Chinese American: Yin- ; yang- | yin: cold/ yang: hot |
| Asian/Chinese American: Disease: | Tuberculosis |
| Asian/Chinese American: Traditional Medicine: Ex. (sa printable material): | Ventosa (cupping) |
| Asian/Chinese American: Dominant male: | Father / dominant son |
| Japanese Americans: | Future time: On time
Great value of time
Leukemia
smoked/ cured foods
Foods that cause cancer
Grilled, Processed, Pickled, dried ramen, dried fish, fermented foods, (alcohol)
Dokutoru - doctor |
| Japanese Americans: Technology: | Life is fast |
| Japanese Americans: Father: | Decision maker |
| Japanese Americans: Cancer: | skin, breast, brain
especially stomach |
| Mexican Americans: | Sickness punishment from God
Magical thinking
Curandero/Curandera
Post-partum practices
Catholic Parish Priest/ Chaplain
Protestant: Preacher/Pastor/Minister
Spanish Interpreter
High fat diet |
| Mexican Americans: Usog: | "Evil Eye" / malolo Ojo |
| Mexican Americans: Amulet | "Senior Milagrosa" |
| Mexican Americans: Cancer: | Gallbladder |
| Mexican Americans: Wide frame attitudes: | time |
| Mexican Americans: Father: | decision-maker |
| Mexican Americans: Children: | most important person |
| Mexican Americans: Soul food: | Tortilla & Chilli |
| African American: | Privacy/Confidentiality Valued
High fat and Cholesterol
Hypertension/Stroke
Cancer |
| African American: Time: | Flexible |
| African American: Sickness: | Demons and Spirits |
| African American: Significant person: | Religious leaders: Church: Mother |
| African American: Soul food: | Fried food |
| African American: Diabetes Mellitus: | 2 Glaucoma |
| African American: Skin assessment: Pallor: | Buccal mucosa & conjunctiva |
| African American: Skin assessment Petechiae: | Palms and soles |
| African American: Skin assessment: Jaundice: | Sclera & Nail beds |
| Buddhism: Belief: | Enlightenment |
| Buddhism: Practice: | Meditation |
| Buddhism: Food: | Vegan |
| Buddhism: Organ donation: | Yes |
| Buddhism: Death and dying: | Positive feeling |
| Buddhism: Postmortem care: Allow the body to be untouched for _______ | 3 days |
| Buddhism: After death: | First touch the top of the head and say "go to the pure land, or precious human birth, or safe place" |
| Buddhism: True or False: Allow cremation or burial | true |
| Jehovah's Witnesses: Food: | No blood of animals |
| Buddhism: Blood transfusion: | Commentate blood (Plasma expander) |
| Buddhism: Can donate organ but with? | no blood coming from other person |
| Buddhism: Seventh Day Adventist: What food avoided? | Food Leviticus food (avoided)
fish without fins, no squid, no shrimp, no pork, no crab. |
| Buddhism: Seventh Day Adventist: Holy day of obligation: | SABBATH day (starts 5 pm Friday to Saturday 5 pm) |
| Hinduism: Belief: | Reincarnation |
| Hinduism: Practice: | Yoga/ meditation |
| Hinduism: Food: | Vegan, strictly vegetarian |
| Hinduism: Organ donation: yes or no? | yes |
| Hinduism: Postmortem care: | body wrapped in white/orange cloth then cremated |
| Hinduism: Ashes: | thrown to the holy river |
| Maline Protestant: | No tobacco and alcohol |
| Mormons: Food restrictions: | no tea, no caffeine, no alcohol, no chocolates, no cola |
| Judaism: Bible - | Torah |
| Judaism: 5 books of Moses: | Genesis, Exodus Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Numbers |
| Judaism: | Stress
Circumcision is sacred, male infants circumcise at birth
Discourage autopsy
Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's disease |
| Judaism: _____/ Thalassemia- Mediterranean anemia stop | Cooley's anemia |
| Judaism: Rabbi - | priest |
| Judaism: Kosher: | Lawful diet & allowed; should be slaughtered; no beef & dairy at same time - 6 hours apart |
| Roman Catholic: Belief: | No abortion, natural method of family planning, Holy Trinity |
| Roman Catholic: Organ Donation: | yes |
| Roman Catholic: Abortion: | no |
| Roman Catholic: Sacraments: | a) Penance
b) Holy communion
c) Anointing of the sick |
| Roman Catholic: Food: | No meat on Good Friday and Ash Wednesday |
| Islam: Food: | No Pork, no Elixir, no PORCINE Insulin |
| Islam: ______: lawful | jalal; Halal |
| Islam: | Ramadan
Koran (Quran)
Evil eye
Discourage autopsy |
| Islam: Doctors/ Nurses: _____ for female patients
and meds on _____ minimizing touch therapy | Female
... meds on the right |
| Islam: Male: | Dominant |
| Islam: Death and Dying: | Doctor declares death never touch dead body; body washed by relative of same sex, wrapped in white body positioned facing Mecca (east) |
