I am responsible to the families by providing culturally sensitive care. Every family is unique in its own way, as a nurse I must respect what is important or meaningful to the family. Furthermore, I will try to identify the strengths of the family and beliefs of the family and will try to incorporate them into the plan of care. I will listen to their concerns attentively and in a non-judgemental way. I will also reflect on my personal beliefs and values. According to Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (2007), “Through self-reflection, health care providers are able to acknowledge their own cultural beliefs and values, which will aid them in achieving cultural competence in practice” (p. 32). As a nurse, I will guide them and assist
After taking the self-assessment survey for quality and culture, I would like to improve and understand how cultural competence can have a real impact on clinical outcomes. Taking from some of the questions I answered wrong, it make me wants to be cultural competent. There are a few questions I am surprised and shocked, that I answered them incorrectly. I do understand that with training, I will start to gain cultural competence but it will take consistent individual practice on my part to develop and maintain individual cultural competence. Cultural competence can lead to, health literacy, health equity, and fewer diagnostic errors, which might help the patient expand their choices and access high quality medical providers because patient
In health care today, there are many different cultures found in our patient population. Patients often have difficulty conforming to medical regimens due to their cultural beliefs and practices. Completing a comprehensive cultural assessment is the key to understanding the specific components of their culture to facilitate effective and efficient nursing care. In this paper I will describe the key components of a comprehensive cultural assessment. Two of the components will be discussed in relation to the Afghan culture and how that impacts providing culturally diverse care.
For example, a nurse once told me that they had never had any exposure to people that did not look like them, talk like them, or think like them. I was not judgmental, but I was amazed that this is possible at this day and time. I felt like this person was missing out on so many cultural differences. I want nurses to have cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity and to have some knowledge and understanding that there are many different cultures that their patients bring to the health environment. Culturally competent nursing care helps ensure patients’ satisfaction and positive patient outcomes.
Nurses working in the healthcare industry meet patients from many different backgrounds and cultures. It is important for a nurse to know beliefs of different cultures in order to provide culturally competent care to patients. The purpose of this paper is to teach about the health practices and beliefs of
Madeline Leininger’s Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory, deals with the impact of culture on health and healing. In health care today, a nurse must deal with people from many backgrounds, cultures, and ethnic origins. Transcultural nursing is practiced throughout nursing when caring for people from different cultures. The purpose of Leininger’s theory is to produce knowledge related to nursing care of people from diverse nationalities, who value their ethnic heritage and culture. Leininger’s theory recognized and understood cultural differences and similarities while caring for patients of different backgrounds.
Cultural education and awareness are key factors in providing respectful care to our patients. Being aware of differences in forms of communication, beliefs about life and death, and being able to accept and show respect for traditions that may not be our own will all come through continuing our education as nurses. We must remain vigilant to our patients and their families, noticing just how giving of ourselves and our time we are. With a Native American family, tone and body language can completely override the words that are spoken. The nurse who is attempting to provide respectful, culturally competent care will have to take the extra time, to develop the trust and respect that are so integral to their culture.
Great points Seema, as per Giger (2013), nurse practitioners are expected to prepare to provide culturally fitting nursing care for their clients, regardless of cultural background. You are right in order to deliver appropriate nursing care they should know the important factors that affect person’s health and illness behaviors. Accurate cultural assessment can give an insight about behaviors that might otherwise be guessed negatively. If the cultural behaviors are not appropriately recognized, their significance will be confusing to the nurse. The main inspiration, for knowing culture is that culture is intertwined with an individual’s health beliefs, values, preferences and practices.
The way a person thinks about health, “whether that is our ‘philosophy’, our ‘worldview’, our ‘framework’ influences what we do as individuals in practice,” as well as how we deliver the health service. These elements allow us to think about healthcare in our own culturally acceptable way, this isn’t always an acceptable way of delivering the service to people with views different to our own. Cultural competence is an approach that aids in influencing the service and the education of healthcare professionals. (Taylor, K., & Guerin, P., 2010). Cultural competence is defined as a knowledge and understanding of cultures, histories and contemporary realities and awareness of protocols, combined with the proficiency to engage and work effectively in a cultural context congruent to the expectations of the people of that culture.
Hmong see a world where everything is connected. They believe that nothing occurs in isolation. Their body, mind and spirit are all interconnected. They also view illness in this holistic approach. Hmong culture saw Lia as a type of “anointed one” and her epilepsy as a blessing rather than a weakness.
Cultural competency: Indians Culture competency is defined as one has the knowledge, the abilities and the skill to deliver care congruent with the patient’s cultural beliefs and practices (Purnell, 2013). As a nurse or a health care provider, increasing ones consciousness of culture diversity improves the possibilities for health care practitioners to provide competent care (Purnell, 2013). Nurses and all health care providers should be aware of other cultures to provide the best care that they can for that individual. Developing a relationship with diverse cultural groups involves good interpersonal skills and the application of knowledge and techniques learned from the physical, biological, and social sciences as well as the humanities (Purnell, 2013). I am choosing to select the Indian culture for my first assignment.
Cultural competence for nurses is defined as the willingness or the desire to understand another person’s culture, the ability to learn about diverse cultural belief systems, and to work effectively as a healthcare professional. This includes, understanding the dynamics of a patient’s culture as it relates to their relationships, interactions, and understanding of overall health. Awareness of one’s own culture, along with the understanding of other cultures, and how this relates to nursing care is essential to improve outcomes for patients (Kardong-Edgren et al., 2010). In 2010, the United States Census revealed that 37% of the population considered themselves to be minorities, and by 2020 this demographic will increase by 40%.
This model represents the structure of culture care theory by relating the connection between anthropological and nursing beliefs and principles. Nurses apply this model to practice when making cultural evaluations of patients. This model connects the concepts of the theory with actual clinical practice, and at the same time it offers a universal approach to recognize values, beliefs, behaviors and community traditions. Sunrise model encompasses multiple aspects of culture such as spiritual, financial, social, education, legal and theoretical dimensions. Together with these factors, language and social environment does extensively have an effect on the service delivered by healthcare
The major stressors of hospitalization include loss of control, pain, separation from family, friends, and siblings. The disaster of children hospitalization affects every member of the family. To reduce the potential effects of hospitalization both children and family require individualized care. So, to deliver the developmentally appropriate nursing care and family-centered care nurses support needed, which encompasses accepting cultural, socioeconomic, and ethnic values. For example, health and illness are well-defined by various ethnic groups.
We live in a diverse society. In Singapore we have 5 major ethnic groups and many minor groups living in our little red dot. This diverse cultural society naturally exposes nurses to many cultures foreign to our own. Culture, defined as a particular set of beliefs, norms, and values concerning the nature of relationships, the way people live their lives, and the way people organize their environments (SAMHSA, 2014), can appear strange, weird, and even crazy to those not familiar with it. With little time to familiarize, nurses have to adapt to the various cultural groups that pass through the doors of medical establishments daily.
Each and every individual have their own cultural values, beliefs and behaviors which make them different from each other. People are different in their ethnicity, tribe, race and religions and have their own identity. Our culture has influence the way how we conduct the work, our behavior and style, our language use, our problems and challenges solving nature, how we negotiate and how we make relation with others. Health professionals need to understand their own cultural values, beliefs and behaviors before caring patient of different culture. They need to be aware of diverse practices and beliefs of several cultures.