101 LEC (real)

• Nurses must understand cultural variation as a basis for even minimally safe and effective care
• Ethnocentrism


  The perception that one's worldview is the only acceptable truth and that one's beliefs, values, and sanctioned behaviors are superior to all others
• Ethnicity


  When a person identifies with a socially, culturally, and politically constructed group of individuals that holds a common set of characteristics not shared by others
• Race


  A socially constructed concept that has meaning to a larger group, not a physical characteristic
• Mrs. Al Sayah's husband is in favor of her attempting to fast for Ramadan but is not insistent
• Causes of illness beliefs

  • Biomedical
  • Holistic (or naturalistic)
  • Magicoreligious
• dry form