Patient Care-Unit 2 Understanding the Patient as a Person

The awareness of one's own cultural beliefs and practices and their relationship to those of others, which may be different.

• Cultural Relativism
• Cultural Competence

• Cultural Appropriation
• Cultural Assimilation

Care provided to patients that is individual and specific to their cultural beliefs and practices.

• Personalized Care
• Culturally Competent Care
• Standardized Care
• Emergency Care

A set of learned values, beliefs, customs, and practices that are shared by a group and are passed from one generation to another.

• Culture
• Religion
• Tradition
• Ethnicity

A group of people who share a common social and cultural heritage based on shared traditions, national origin, and physical and biological characteristics.

• Ethnic Group
• Religious Group
• Political Group
• Professional Group

A belief that the beliefs and practices of one's particular culture are best.

• Ethnocentrism
• Cultural relativism
• Xenophobia
• Cultural appropriation

A system that believes health and illness are controlled by supernatural forces; they may be secular, sacred, or a combination of both.

• Biomedical system
• Folk health belief system

• Holistic health system
• Naturalistic system

The degree to which people can understand basic health information to make their own decisions about treatment options.

• Health Literacy
• Health Education
• Health Awareness
• Health Knowledge

A group of people who share biological physical characteristics.

• Race
• Religion
• Nationality
• Profession

A nation, community, or broad group of people who establish particular aims, beliefs, or standards of living and conduct.

• Society
• Government
• Company
• School

A generalized expectation about forms of behavior, and individual, or a group.

• Stereotype
• Prejudice
• Discrimination
• Racism