Cultural Nursing

In the last twenty years, the rising number of disparities in health and healthcare has increased simultaneously with the influx of minorities within the population (Baldwin, 2003) A4. As the size of an ethnically diverse population steadily continues to increase, so will the level of complexities of patients’ health needs, which nurses and other healthcare staff will be expected to address (Black, 2008) A1. The issue of racial, ethnic and health disparities for minorities exists for several complex reasons, however, even with this being widely known, very little action has been taken to try and correct it (Baldwin, 2003) A4. Research findings suggest that without actively implementing cultural diversity within the healthcare workforce, quality in healthcare will decline while health disparities continue to rise (Lowe & Archibald, 2009) A3. So although the shortage of nursing staff should be a high-priority for change in the U.S., the need for more registered nurses with racially

A long time ago during the middle ages Europe and Japan both developed a class of warriors. These warriors were called Samurai and Knights all though these two warriors had different names and they knew nothing about each other. They both had a lot of Similarities for example there social position, their training, and their honor. They also had a lot of differences but their similarities were greater than their differences. This can be show by looking at three areas document A, B, and C.

Cultural competence is defined as possessing the skills and knowledge necessary to appreciate, respect, and work with individuals from different cultures. It is a concept that requires self-awareness, awareness and understanding of cultural differences, and the ability to adapt to clinical skills and practices as needed

Nursing is a dynamic field that is frequently evolving with the changing demographics of the world we live in today. It is important for nurses to have the ability to provide culturally competent care with every patient encounter. Providing culturally competent care is not possible unless the nurse has an understanding of the ethnic background (Flowers, 2014).

Cultural competence embraces: ... gaining knowledge of different cultural practices and world views. Developing skills for communication and interaction across cultures.[ There is excellent evidences shows that cultural competence training improves the knowledge of health profession), and good evidence that cultural competence training improves the attitudes and skills of health professionals and impacts patient satisfaction Cultural competence training shows promise as a strategy for improving the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of health professionals. . Directly interacting with patients from different cultural backgrounds helps nurses increase their cultural competence. s. Health care providers must possess the ability and the knowledge to communicate and to understand how health behaviors are influenced by culture. Having this ability and knowledge can eliminate barriers to the delivery of health care.

The face of nursing has evolved and changed since it’s inception. Today’s nurse is faced with cultural, ethical and technological issues that didn’t exist even twenty years ago. As such, nurses have had to continuously evolve to continue to provide the quality, selfless care that patients have always relied on them for, and expected, since the very beginning of nursing. From pediatrics to gerontology, nurses are serving a culturally, religiously and financially diverse population with challenging needs. In the face of this, nursing itself is becoming ever more diverse in it’s culture and skill set, which is helping the profession stay in the race, and continue to advance the practice of nursing.

The nurse must gain cultural competence in order to effectively and efficiently provide care to diverse communities. Education about diversity in race, ethnicity and culture and how to assist such clients is important. A community/public health nurse can often be the only line of communication between clients and other healthcare services.The nurse

The term culture is defined as “the thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups” (Potter & Perry, 2013). With the increase of culturally diverse populations in the United States, it is important for nurses to practice cultural competence. Cultural competence is the ability to acquire specific behaviors, skills, attitudes, and policies in a system that permits “effective work in a cross-cultural setting” (OMH, 2013). Being culturally competent is essential because nurses who acknowledges and respects a patient’s health beliefs and practices are more likely to have positive health outcomes (OMH, 2012). Every culture has certain views and attitudes concerning

The United States has developed into a diversified nation that is comprised of numerous perspectives, values and health behaviors which are creating health disparities within the health care system (Cowen & Moorhead, 2012). Failure to address these disparities could evolve into considerable health and cultural concerns among these minority groups. Nurse leaders have to be cognizant of these concerns and implement culturally competent standards of care in their organization to reduce inconsistency of access to quality of health care in the United States. For implementation of a cultural competent care in an organization to take place, the leaders must comprehend its meaning and impact in their

Haynes (2016) article, The Road to Cultural Competency Are We There yet? Stated that the key to decreasing health disparities in the workforce could be done by increasing diversity. Health disparities as indicated by Turk (2014), Issue: Nursing Workforce, can result in a more complicated societal problem. It was further stated, health disparities have received much attention and is currently identified as a priority issue in our nation. According to Haynes (2016), strategies which were recommended by the Sullivan Commission were done to increase the workforces of nursing should begin with education. Cultural competency as stated here should be a vital component of the nursing curriculum. Turk (2014) reported health disparities result in a more multifaceted societal burden. According to Turk (2014), decreasing health disparities has received significant attention. Individuals, including policymakers, academicians, and researchers are concerned about the diversification of the healthcare workforce of which strategies are being implemented by decreasing health disparities and increasing the availability of culturally competent among health care providers.

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The population of the United States is continually rising. The birth rate continues to rise, but more importantly, the number of foreign-born immigrants that relocated to the United States in 2003 was a staggering 33.5 million, and that number rises every year (Jarvis, 2008). With such a large immigrant population comes the need for medical professionals that are culturally competent. Being culturally competent means that the caregivers, “understand and attend to the total context of the individual’s situation, including awareness of immigration status, stress factors, other social factors, and cultural similarities and differences” (Jarvis, 2008, p.38). Because the United States is so diverse, it is a federal

Schools of Nursing prepare their graduates to meet the needs of diverse patient populations by providing cultural competency education. An integral component in undergraduate education, cultural competency in nursing, supports patient-centered care addressing patients’ cultural differences, values, spiritual, ethnic, gender, and sexual orientation preferences. The goals of providing educational sessions on cultural diversity, awareness, and sensitivity are for students to gain the understanding, knowledge, and skills allowing them to improve the quality of patient care. While Schools of Nursing seek to include diverse learning experiences providing application of culturally sensitive care practices, increasing patient acuity and faculty shortages affect the ways we must educate our students. Wilson, et al., (2012) state that “It is no longer possible for students in any health discipline to remain focused on local or national health care problems” (p. 213). This emphasis on global health gives students the skills necessary to provide clinically competent, safe, and culturally appropriate care (Wilson, et. al., 2012). Global health refers to “…improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide” (Wilson, et. al., 2012, p. 214).

With the large increase multicultural population in the United States, nurses encounter patients with differences in healthcare beliefs, values and customs. To provide adequate nursing care, nurses must be aware of these differences. They must respect and acknowledge the patient’s culture. To do this, nurses need education on cultural competence to ensure patient satisfaction and better patient outcomes.

Care and culture are the key constructs that make up the Culture Care Theory. This theory differed from other nurses’ work or mindset because nurse leaders relied heavily up on the four metaparadigm concepts of person, environment, health, and nursing to explain nursing (McFarland and Wehbe-Alamah, 2015). Leininger realized that those four metaparadigm concepts were to limited in its scope regarding nursing and culture and care ideologies. Interestingly, care and culture were excluded from the metaparadigm. “It is not logical to use nursing to explain nursing” (McFarland and Wehbe-Alamah, 2015). That is definitely a contradiction in terms and represents scholarly research