Cultural Competency Crossword

Awareness and Acceptance of Cultural Differences
Racial Prejudice
A belief that one’s own way of viewing and experiencing the world is superior to other perspectives
A way of life that involve unique characteristics of human beings, wherein they share a pattern of learned behavior such as customs and moral conduct
Used to obtain a culturally specific information needed to provide individualized care for diverse patients
Crucial to providing holistic care
Refusal to recognize the cultural needs of another person
Imposing one’s culture on another person’a culture
Assuming that all people of one culture or race have the same personal characteristics
Emotional shock experienced by immersed in a different culture
conflict that is based on ethnocentric thinking
familiarity with various cultural differences
Motivation to “want to” engage in the process of becoming culturally aware, knowledgeable, and skillfull
ability to work alongside people with differ culture
Understanding of differences between a person and people from other countries,background, beliefs, value
this is the time when you deliver culturally competent care
Based on cultural understanding, provides a strong bride to identifying the overall needs of a patient
for another person’s cultural needs inspire the trust two people can have for each other and foster cooperation
Are respectful of and responsive to individual cultural health beliefs and practices, preferred languages and communication needs of patient in multiple health care settings
meeting cultural needs assist in improving health and health related outcomes is important for every nurse
the absence of avoidable, unfair, or remediable differences among groups of people
The action of explaining the meaning of something
The ability to obtain, read, understand, and use healthcare information in order to make appropriate health decisions and follow instructions for treatment
A thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen without proof
Prejudice in a favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another usually in a way to be considered unfair
unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things
a belief that things have a set of characteristics which make them what they are, and that the task of science and philosophy is their discovery and expression
preventable differences in the burden disease, injury, violence or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations
the process of translating words or text from one language into another
how professional nursing interacts with the concept of culture.based in anthropology and nursing theory by research and practice
your nursing knowledge with cultural needs of the patient results in the patient being better informed and,it is hoped,more cooperative with health care regimen