Cultural Awareness And Delivery Of Appropriate Care

The barriers would be the family did not speak English nor did they have an education which would allow them to understand what exactly the doctors were talking about. Her family came here from Mexico by paying someone to smuggle them into the country to get their daughter the medical attention she needed (Burns, Bradley, & Weiner, 2011). The interpreter who was provided may not have had medical training or even understood what the providers were telling them to communicate with the family of the patient (Berry-Caban & Crespo, 2008). Some cultures such as Hispanics will not question authority out of respect for it so if her family disagreed with any of her care they would have not said anything to the doctors or nurses.

As a nurse strive to provide culturally sensitive care, they must recognize how their client's and their perceptions are similiar as well as different. Nurse enhance their ability to provide client-centered care by reflecting on how their beliefs and values impact the nurse-patient relationship. To provide appropriate patient care, the nurse must understand her/his culture and that of the nurse profession. Cultural biases can be particularly difficult to identify when the nurse and client are of a similar cultural backgroup. When we recognize and know a culture, we will know what is right for our patient, and thus may impose our own values on the client by assuming our values are their values. Recognizing differences a

Showing support and respect for cultural health beliefs creates a better interpersonal relationship between patient and physician. When implementing a wellness plan for the patient to follow the physician should take into consideration the beliefs of the patient. Health care providers should seek and obtain knowledge of their patient’s diverse cultures. Obtaining the knowledge of other cultures can be an valuable skill.

The heritage assessment tool is a checklist used by professionals to gain knowledge of patient’s culture and beliefs prior to initiating care. (Spector, 2000). There are many different cultures in this country, brining different beliefs in health, illness, recovery, death, and life. The heritage assessment tool is an important measure towards better understanding of cultural competency, or recognition of diversity. A person’s culture, beliefs, heritage, and language have a substantial impact both as a patient and a health care provider within the health care system. (Spector, 2009).

Unfortunately, the concept of identifying with a heritage group one is not born of can be looked upon with disdain by others. Two more points the author makes is that Americans appreciate their individuality, yet our unique backgrounds help to continually form our blended culture (Rodriguez 730).

Our community is composed of culturally diverse people, and nurses have to take care of these people when they need care. That being said, nurses deal with conflicts of culture, values, or beliefs with their patients. The values conflict I have encountered was when the wife of my dying resident verbalized to no suctioning despite the comfort care orders she agreed and signed. Her husband had increased in secretions and despite the medications administered and oral care provided, his increased in secretions had not ceased causing blockage to his airways thereby making him gasp for air and in pain. His wife believed that suctioning causes pain and offers no benefits. According to Blais and Hayes (2011), I have to “show respect for the client’s support people” (p. 390) although the wife’s belief is not congruent with the

Healthcare has withstood several changes throughout the past few decades, however, healthcare policies are now focused more on empirical evidence rather than patient health care. Recently, I have noticed that there is an increased need for health care providers to incorporate patients culture into various treatments. The article “Patient-Centered, Culturally Sensitive Health Care (PC-CSHC) written by Carolyn M. Tucker, Julia Roncoroni, and Jackeline Sanchez presents to us that there is a need for health provides to include peoples culture into their care and interventions to promote change. I found this article to be not only educational but intriguing. Before analyzing this article, I knew that there was a needed change in health care, thus, I was satisfied to read that there are researched strategies and ways to implement change.

As health care providers, it is imperative to acknowledge the relationship between cultural awareness and delivery of appropriate care. The first step in creating cultural awareness may begin by the provider assessing their own cultural heritage, and it’s views on health and wellness.

Another recommendation is for Aspires’ staff to enable hope by showing respect for the client’s beliefs and values (Austerlic, 2009). Austerlic’s last recommendation is for staff to assist with facilitating healing in the client’s relationships and unfinished business to restore wholeness (2009). The majority of our client’s do not live with their paternal family members, rather they live with extended family, friends of family, or in the foster care system, giving extra importance to our staff recognizing this and using best practice to help the client’s either rebuild, heal, or build new relationships is essential. This is a perfect example of why Aspire stresses cultural competence to their staff. Cultural competence in program staff is

As health care providers, it is imperative to acknowledge the relationship between cultural awareness and delivery of appropriate care. The first step in creating cultural awareness may begin by the health care provider assessing their own cultural heritage, and it’s views on health and wellness.

Cultural sensitivity is being aware of different cultures and customs and beliefs of other people and having the skills to interact with others on a daily basis without hindering their cultural beliefs and traditions. As health care professionals, it is very important to have cultural sensitivity and competence so that we can overcome the barriers to communication as well as providing adequate treatment to a patient. In health care facilities, we may come across many people who are from different backgrounds, social classes, race, and ethnicity. In order to provide proper care, a health care professional must be competent enough to recognize and respect patients who come from different culture than their own. In a pharmacy work setting, pharmacists

Performing a cultural assessment and cultural analysis gives the nurse the opportunity to identify health care needs and provide culturally sensitive care. Patients have a right to their cultural beliefs, values, and practices, and that these factors should be understood, respected, and considered when giving culturally competent care.

Professional communication has been regarded as a fundamental discipline among all professions, which entails the skill of communicating effectively and sensitively. The purpose of this paper is to acquire extensive knowledge about the importance of professional and effective communication in the delivery of health care in various cultural groups. This writer selected the Latino population as her journal reading, since Latinos have become frequent patients in the acute care hospital. Through this reading, exploring the culture of Latinos will augment insights to the delivery of care that is culturally sensitive. Furthermore, the importance of cultural competence in nursing facilitates

It is essential that the health care provider be acquainted with cultural emerges and unearth methods to transmit lucidly, and comprehend adept cultural competent to deliver appropriate care to arrays of a multicultural society (Burns et al., 2013).

Most people can easily describe their culture; many simply state, “I’m Italian and Irish.” However, being a third generation American, I’ve truly become a melting pot. I am 1/16th Scottish, 1/16th British, 1/4th Polish, 1/4th Italian and 3/8th’s German. My grandfather on my mom’s side is one hundred percent Italian, while my grandmother on my mom’s side was one hundred percent Polish. This makes my mom fifty percent Italian and fifty percent Polish, which is pretty typical of a second generation American. My grandfather on my dad’s side was one hundred percent German, while my grandmother was 1/2 German, 1/4th Scottish, and 1/4th British. Since my grandmother, who was only a first generation American already had three different ethnicities, my culture heritage started to become slightly a-typical from your traditional American. My father, who was 3/4th German, 1/8th Scottish and 1/8th British, lacked any similarities with my mom’s heritage. This made me part of five different cultures. I value and appreciate each of my cultures just as much as the next, however, the most influential grandparent on my cultural identity has been my Italian grandfather so