Advocacy
Pleading in favor of a cause
QSEN safety competencies
Knowledgeable of unsafe practices; problem solving, conflict resolution & communication skills; & collaboration & care coordination b
Safety
Minimize risk of harm to patients & providers through both system effectiveness & individual performance
Categories of collaboration
Nurse-patient, nurse-nurse, interprofessional, & interorganizations
Health protection
Behaviors that decrease one's probability of becoming ill
Cultural competence guiding principles
Care is designed for the specific patient, based on tne uniqueness of the patients culture, includes self-empowerment strategies to facilitate patient decision making in health behavior & is provided with sensitivity & based on the uniquness of the patien
Small group communication
More than 2 individuals meet together
Health
State of complete physical, mental& wellbeing & not just the absence of disease or illness
Cultural repatterning
Assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling nurse actions and decisions that help people of a particular culture to change or modify a cultural practice for new or different health care patterns that are meaningful, satisfying, and beneficial
Cultural brokering
Advocating, mediating, negotiating, and intervening between the client's culture and the biomedical health care culture on behalf of clients
Interpersonal communication
One to one interactions between two individuals, often face to face
illness prevention
Behavior directed toward reducing the threat of illness
Social justice
Equitable distribution of the burdens and benefits of society among members
Cultural shock
This is the feeling of helplessness, discomfort, and disorientation experienced by an individual attempting to understand or effectively adapt to a cultural group whose beliefs and values are radically different from the individual's culture
Inhibitors to developing cultural competence
Stereotyping, prejudice, racism, ethnocentrism, cultural imposition, cultural conflict, and cultural shock
Interprofessional collaboration
Working across professional boundaries to form a partnership between a team of health providers and the patient to share in decision making of health and social issues
Public health nursing advocacy
Action taken on behalf of or with individuals, families, or populations to create or support an environment that promotes health
Caring
Offering of oneself, described from the four perspectives of compassion, doing for others, caring for the medical problem, and competence in carrying out procedures
Collaboration
Development of partnerships to achieve best possible outcomes that reflect particular needs of the patient, family, or community, requiring an understanding of what others have to offer
Effective communication patterns
Essential to achieve positive health outcomes, involves the entire human being, facilitates open expression, requires use of age appropriate methods, need to apply special considerations, and strengthens relationships
Cultural preservation
Assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling nurse actions and decisions that help the clients of a particular culture to retain and preserve traditional values so they they can maintain, promote, and restore health
Health promotion
A behavior directed toward achieving a greater level of health, these behaviors promote optimal health across the life span within an individual, family, community, population, and environment
Public interactions
interacting with an audience
Transpersonal communication
Interaction that occurs within a person's spiritual domain
The levels of communication
Intrapersonal, interpersonal, transpersonal, small group, and public interactions
The dimensions of cultural competence
Cultural preservation, cultural accommodation, cultural repatterning, and cultural brokering
Prejudice
Deeply held emotional beliefs about other groups, is usually is negative
Ethnocentrism or cultural prejudice
This is the belief that a person's cultural group determines the standards of behavior by which all other groups are to be judged
Cultural competence
Is a combination of culturally congruent behaviors, practice attitudes, and policies that allows nurses to use interpersonal communication, relationship skills, and behavioral flexibility to work effectively in cross-cultural situations
Health maintenance
Focuses on keeping a current state of health
Stereotyping
Attributing certain beliefs and behaviors to groups without recognizing individual differences within the groups, stereotyping blocks the willingness of people to be open and to learn about specific individuals or groups, and this can be either positive o
Racism
A form of prejudice, occurs through the exercise of power by individuals and institutions against people of another skin color who are judged as inferior (in intelligence, morals, beauty, self-worth, and so forth)
Interorganizational collaboration
Includes pooling resources between organizations to benefit patients and communities
Cultural Conflict
This may occur when there is a misunderstanding of expectations between clients and nurses, when either group is not aware of or denies cultural differences
Nurse-nurse collaboration
Nursing teams in health settings that provide collaboration and support in patient caregiving
Intrapersonal communication
Communication that occurs within an individual
Nurse-patient collaboration
Occur at each level of the nursing process
Cultural competence development process
Includes cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural skill, being engaged in cultural encounters, and having a cultural desire
Cultural accommodation
Assistive, supportive, facilitative, or enabling nurse actions and decisions that help clients of a particular culture accept nursing strategies or negotiate with nurses to achieve satisfying health outcomes