WEEK 17

• Cultural Diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures as opposed to monoculture, the global monoculture or homogenization of cultures, akin to cultural decay.
• Culture is a view of the world and a set of traditions that a specific social group uses and transmits to the next generation.
• Cultural values are preferred ways of acting based on those traditions.
• Ethnicity 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.
• Race refers to a category of people who share a socially recognized physical characteristic.
• Actions that are not acceptable to a culture are called taboos.
• Three taboos that are universal are murder, incest, and cannibalism.
• Issues such as abortion, robbery, and lying are controversial because these are taboos only to some people nor to everyone.
• Cultural values are formed early in life and strongly influence the manner in which people plan for childbearing and childrearing as well as the way they respond to health and Illness.
• Cultural Destructiveness is making everyone to the same cultural pattern, and excluding of those who don't fit, forced assimilation.
• In every barangay with at least one hundred (100) family heads residing, there should be a 1-day care center.
• The standards would focus on five areas: Advancement of Children’s Growth and Development, Partnership with Families, Communities and Local Government, Human Resources Development (HRD), Program Management, and Physical Environment and Safety.
• The accreditation and guidelines from the DSWD are the same for all 1-day care centers.
• Inclusion and cultural diversity are cornerstones for optimal development.
• Homes and communities are important continuing contexts within which a person’s development occurs and progresses.
• Exploration and discovery are venues for development characterized by activity and perseverance.
• Early childhood is the most formative and crucial stage in a person’s growth and development.
• The dynamic interplay of heredity and environment plays a significant and unique role in a person’s development.
• Cultural Blindness is the inability to see or believe there are cultural differences among people.
• Cultural Sensitivity is understanding and accepting different cultures, values, attitudes, and behaviors.
• Cultural Competence is the capacity to work effectively and with people integrating elements of their culture-vocabulary, values, attitudes, rules, and norms.
• Acculturation is the transfer of values and customs from one group to another.
• The Department of Health made a memorandum that there will no more pregnant mother to deliver children at home due to unsafe and risk delivery.
• Hospital addresses different cases of health problems.
• Birthing center only focuses on parturient cases and is cheaper compared to the hospital.
• Physical changes are normal-regardless of whether the re expecting a boy or a girl.
• There shall be documented SOP/ Manual of Operation, Certificate as Newborn Screening Facility to RA No. 9288 and AO No. 2008 – 0026, and Birthing facilities shall strengthen in Service Delivery Network (SDN).
• Life-saving medications such as magnesium sulphate, oxytocin, steroids and oral antibiotics shall be verified against doctor's written orders prior to its administration.
• Birthing facilities are required to operate 24/7.
• A birthing facility shall be managed and supervised by any of the following healthcare professional(s) who have complied with the minimum and valid licensing requirements: Physician - Obstetrician-Gynecologist, Pediatrician, Family Medicine Physician, MHO or GP, Nurse, Midwife.
• Midwives/Nurses/Physicians are encouraged to open a birthing center since:
• Every birth must be attended by skilled birth attendants pursuant to A.O. No. 2008 - 0029 Section III, 3.
• Hyperpigmentation has absolutely nothing to do with the baby's gender.
• Not all pregnant woman can access to hospital at the same time.
• Belly shape is merely an indication of the baby's position inside the uterus or baby's movements as he develops.
• Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's own culture is superior to others.
• Discrimination is the act of treating people differently based on their physical or cultural traits.
• Cultural competence, or respecting cultural differences allows you to plan culturally competent care and the integration of cultural differences.
• Cultural differences occur not only across different ethnic backgrounds but also different lifestyle behaviors such as drinking alcohol or smoking cigarettes.
• Powerlessness related to expectations of care not being respected is a nursing diagnosis.