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cultural competence

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Knowing the health care practitioner's own values, attitudes, beliefs, and prejudices.

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Cultural Sensitivity

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Refraining from using offensive language, respecting accepted patterns of communication, and refraining from speaking in ways that are disrespectful of a person's cultural beliefs.

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Cultural Awareness

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Involves the knowledge of the patient's history and ancestry and an understanding of the patient's: beliefs, artistic expressions, diets, celebrations, rituals.

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health literacy

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The patient's capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions and follow instructions for treatment.

Includes the patient's ability to:

Read

Listen

Analyze

Make decisions regarding their specific health situations.

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pulsus paradoxus

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systolic blood pressure that is more than 10 mm Hg lower during inhalation than during exhalation;

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tactile fremitus

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vibrations that can be perceived by palpation over the chest.

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vocal fremitus

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vibrations that can be perceived by palpation or auscultation over the chest during phonation

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Pulsus alternans

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Alternating pulse; A physical finding with arterial pulse waveform showing alternating strong and weak beats.