1. The Portuguese Culture
Erica Anacleto, Sara Hannah, Melissa Perrieira

2. Why The Portuguese Culture

3. Beliefs/practices generic to the culture
Catholic beliefs
Sunday Church goers
Rosary and prayers for dying
Believes that love ones who passed are watching over us
Our Lady of Fatima Festival
Lots of visitors in Hospital, rosaries, priests
Will want to receive communion in hospital

4. Views of wellness, illness, and disabilities
Illness can be helped by prayer
Anxiety, guilt can cause illness
No birth control
Fetal abnormalities are accepted, not a reason for abortion
Large body habitus sign of wellness
The ill are well taken care of

5. Health seeking behavior
Local healers within Portuguese communities
Word of mouth
The men are stubborn, commonly wait until symptoms severe

6. Traditional healers/alternative or herbal medicine
Hair of the corn
Parsley tea

7. Domestic violence Emotional and verbal abuse
Parents are traditionally physical
Corporal punishment
BUT still loving and supportive

8. Substance abuse ETOH Tobacco
Mostly found in males, young men start early
WINE

9. Diet and/or specific dietary preferences
Killed their own pigs, chickens
Sopas, sweet bread
Sausage/Linguicia
Bread
Fish
No watermelon or figs at night time

10. Family and gender roles
Common for dad to be involved in landscaping, dairy, fishing, agriculture, manual labor
Moms can work but many stay at home
Women are generally domesticated and take care of all household chores, cooking
Man is normally breadwinner
Male children are favored, have more relaxed rules
Female children participate in parades, are shown off, held to stricter standards than boys

11. View of western health care practitioners
Traditionally in Portugal, use of witchdoctors, healers, midwifes
Not many real doctors, expensive
Here, health care practitioners are commonly used and appreciated
Traditional, older generation Portuguese men reluctant until very necessary

12. Spirituality as it relates to health practices
Prayer to God for healing
Saints
Candles, rosary
May bring religious artifacts to hospital
Herbal home remedies

13. Where is health care normally sought first?
Home remedies as first line of treatment
OTC medications
Family Physician
Hospital

14. What cultural practices are important for health care providers to know about?
How Portuguese is the patient?
Girls no looking or touching men
Religious convictions
Be considerate of prayer time
Be aware of Catholic food restrictions
Many visitors, lots of prayer

15. Recommended nursing care plan and interventions specific to the Portuguese culture
Education of healthy diet
Discuss risks of Diabetes, liver cirrhosis
Teach patient risks of smoking and drinking
May need to provide translator
Don’t assume the patient is hispanic
Don’t use spanish translator

16. References

17. Need to get Portuguese bread Portuguese dessert espece
Picture from parades, band, folklore video
Cape
Rooster
Cheese
Wine