Week 10 Notes

Week 10 Notes

1. Characteristics of culture

   • socially constructed
     • cultural norms, behaviours, and values
       • learned from socializing with the community (family)
   • an integrated system
     • beliefs and healthcare practices are usually consistent with the overall paradignms
       • embedded in everyday life
   • shared
     • belief that have meaning and shared with the group
   • largely implicit and tacit
     • shapes us at a unconscious level
       • we dont stop to consider the assumption or expectation
   • fluid and dynamic
     • always adapting and changing
   • expressed and intersects
     • race, gender, ethnicity, class, language, and disability

2. Diversity

   • variety and differences of attributes among and between groups

3. Ethnicity

   • social identity through shared heritage, language, social structure, and beliefs and values.

4. Race

   • objective biological distinction

5. Racism

   • interrelated with SES, employment opportunities, discrimination, and marginalization

6. Racialization

   • labels of race have been used to maintain dominant power and social orders and this continues to occur today

7. new comers

   • Challenges
     • language barrier, health stays declines, low income, low employment
   • strengths
     • Determination, resilience, and diversity

8. cultural competence

   • the mechanism to address culturally specific health needs

9. Culture safety

   • effective nursing practice with clients from another culture, as determine by clients
   • strengths
     • improving healthcare access for patients, aggregates, and the population
     • acknowledge that we are all bearers of culture
     • expose the social, political, and historical contexts of healthcare

10. Key themes for building and maintain cultural competence

    • Practitioner skill set
      • Cultural competences
    • Workforce diversity
      • teaching staff about diversity
    • System and supports
      • cultural competence process and practices within organizational structures
    • decision support systems and practice improvement
      • utilizing indicators related to an organization's diversity climate in measuring success and determining accountability
    • education and training
      • learning about diversity
    • Collaboration