Chapter 5

Health care may include spiritualists, herb doctors, root doctors, conjurers, skilled elder family members, voodoo, and faith healing.

African American

"Granny" woman or folk healer provides care and may be consulted even if the patient is also receiving traditional care.

Appalachian

Good health is achieved by the proper balance of yin and yang.

Asian

Use of acumassage, acupressure, and acupuncture is common.

Asian

The secret of good health is to balance cold and hot within the body.

Asian, and Hispanic

_______ occurs when a nurse ignores differences in the cultures of patients and proceeds as though they do not exist.

Cultural blindness

Hispanics living in a neighborhood of a large city maintain their own language and cultural practices. This sense of ID that a cultural group's common heritage, is known as its_______

Ethnicity

A nurse believes that her patient care practices are better than those of other nurses. This idea that one's own ideas, practices, and beliefs are superior to, or are preferred to, those of others is termed______

Ethnocentrism

The patient's illness is viewed as part of the whole. Emphasis is placed on preventive medicine.

Hawaiian

Folk healers frequently base treatments on humoral pathology.

Hispanic

Medicine men are frequently used.

Native American

A nurse who practiced nursing in the Puerto Rico emigrates to the US. The psychological feelings this nurse might experience when practicing in this different, strange culture is termed culture______

Shock

A nurse assumes that all Native American patients use a shaman for healing practices. This is an example of ______

Stereotyping

Nurses who work in a local community clinic within the larger health care system. The clinic is considered a _________ of the cultural groups.

Subculture

Dieting and extensive use of exercise and exercise facilities are common practices.

White-middle class

Self-diagnosis and use of over-the-counter medications often occur.

White-middle class