Print these out on card stock, cut into strips and laminate for future use. Make several copies for more than
one group if you want smaller groups. Think about color coding them to your organizational preferences.
Cultural Awareness
Cultural Knowledge
Cultural Skill
Cultural Encounter
Cultural Desire
Cultural Preservation
Cultural Accommodation
Cultural Repatterning
Cultural Brokering
Stereotyping
Prejudice
Racism
Ethnocentrism
Cultural Blindness
Cultural Conflict
Cultural shock
Communication
Patterns
Space
Social organization
Time perception
Environmental Control
Biological Variations
Culture and Nutrition
Supporting and facilitating the use of
cultural practices that have not been found
to be harmful to the client.
Working with clients to make changes in
health practices when the client’s cultural
behaviors are harmful or decrease their
well being.
An appreciation of and sensitivity to a
client’s values, beliefs, practices, lifestyle,
and problem solving strategies
The support and use of scientifically
supported cultural practices that promote
health care.
The effective integration of cultural
awareness and cultural knowledge to meet
needs of culturally diverse clients
Advocating, mediating, negotiating, and
intervening between the client’s culture
and the biomedical health care culture on
behalf of clients.
Interactions with clients related to all
aspects of their lives.
The information necessary to provide
nurses with an understanding of the
organizational elements of cultures and to
provide effective nursing care.
The nurse’s intrinsic motivation to provide
culturally competent care.
Interplay of factors that motivate persons
to develop knowledge, skill and ability to
care for others.
A perceived threat that may arise from a
misunderstanding of expectations between
clients and nurses when neither are aware
of their cultural differences
When differences between cultures are
ignored and persons act as though these
differences do not exist.
The process of imposing one’s values on
others.
The effective integration of cultural
awareness and cultural knowledge to meet
needs of culturally diverse clients
Attributing certain beliefs and behaviors
about a group to an individual without
giving adequate attention to individual
differences
The emotional reaction to deeply held
beliefs/stereotypes about other groups
A form of prejudice and refers to the belief
that person who are born into a particular
group are inferior.
A type of cultural prejudice at the cultural
population level, is the belief that one’s
own group determines the standards for
behavior by which all other groups are to be
judged.
Is the tendency to ignore all differences
between cultures and to act as though the
differences do not exist and act in order to
treat all people the same.
Is the process of imposing one’s values on
others while ignoring the clients’ values.
Is a perceived threat that may arise from a
misunderstanding of expectations between
clients and nurses when either group is not
aware of cultural differences.
Is the feeling of helplessness, discomfort, and
disorientation experienced by an individual
attempting to understand or effectively adapt to
another cultural group that differs in practices,
values and beliefs. It results from the anxiety
caused by losing familiar sights, sounds and
behaviors.
A continuous process by which one person
may affect another through written or oral
language, gestures, facial expressions, body
language, space or other symbols
The physical area that persons need
between themselves and others to feel
comfortable.
The way in which a cultural group
structures itself around the family to carry
out role functions. Behaviors are
prescribed for significant life events, such as
birth , death, childbearing, child rearing,
and illness.
The meaning and influence of time from a
cultural perspective. This refers to a
individual’s focus on the past, the present,
or the future.
Refers to the relationships between
humans and nature. Cultural groups might
perceive humans as having mastery over
nature, being dominated by nature or
having a harmonious relationship with
nature.
The physical, biological and physiological
differences that exist and distinguish on
racial group from another.
Unique nutritional practices that are an
integral part of the culture