Meeting Patient's Cultural Needs

who possess the required level of nursing experience needed to deliver high quality, customer focused, and clinically effective patient care in a modern well equipped clinical setting. Key qualities include being able to continually assessing a patient’s needs and wishes, coping with frequent interruptions in high pressure situations, and being able to respond quickly to emergencies. Having a real passion for nursing, with a strong desire to provide the highest level of care & service to patients.

Crossing Cultural Boundaries Although the caring act of nursing has not changed, the attitude and approach to the practice must be adjusted to meet the current health care needs. At the present time, care providers are not only faced with the challenge of providing quality and efficient care, but also, the issues of communicating with patients of various cultures. Even with several resources and guidelines available to clinicians, in the real-time setting, nurses, with their hurried tasks, often

I worked on the objective of, utilizing a strength-based developmentally and culturally appropriate nursing interventions for children and youth experiencing varying states of health. I was successful at meeting this objective, as it’s important to do nursing interventions that make the patient’s comfortable. For example, I based my interventions off what is culturally and developmentally appropriate for that child. For younger children, I would make my head to toe assessments more of a game than

It is imperative to have awareness of the different cultural group in the workplace. When we are exposed to different cultures, we tend to broaden our horizon because of our exposure to different ideas and beliefs. Since I work in the healthcare field, it would be a great opportunity for me to explore the nursing culture. Nursing consists of multiple cultures, which are the culture of health, competence, excellence, safety, values, and privacy. Culture of health in nursing is imperative because

Family and Cultural Assessment Frameworks: Assessment in healthcare can be described as the process of trying to understand the problem, causes of the problem, and the necessary changes or modifications in order to enhance the well-being of individuals. It's also regarded as the evaluation of the situation and the involved individuals based on facts, people, circumstances, and feelings. In the healthcare field, there are various types of assessments that are conducted such as collection health

critical interventions a nurse performs is patient education (Bastable, 2014). Many factors challenge nurse educators in meeting a patient’s health educational needs including determinants of learning and developmental stages of learning, as well as gender, socioeconomic status and culture (Bastable, 2014). Determinants of Learning The three determinants of learning are the needs of the learner, the readiness of the learner, and their preferred style of learning (Bastable, 2014). Conducting a patient

Advocacy And It’s Role In Cultural Diversity Tabytha Balash Ohio University  Advocacy And It’s Role In Cultural Diversity Facing ethical dilemma’s is nothing new to nursing. As our society becomes more culturally diverse, cultural ethical dilemmas will become more common. Several dilemmas can be contributed to the lack of education or misunderstanding by the medical staff, and the patient’s own cultural values and beliefs. This paper will discuss an ethical dilemma encounter with another culture

an increasing multicultural community from different nationalities accompanying multi-faith practices.[1] Despite the acknowledgment of the fact that diversity of race, religion, language, and cultural background between people is crucial in the healthcare environment, it is more important to develop cultural competency in hospitals to ensure high-quality health care service exclusive of inequalities and responsive to the requirements of the diverse patients.[2][3] This report highlights the barriers

patients what questions they have are vital to being open and flexible to patients’ needs. The second step is for the health care provider to assess how values and health care beliefs influence each person’s health differently. The third step is for the health care provider to obtain information about the patient’s preferences regarding communication. The fourth step is for the health care provider to complete a cultural assessment to learn patients’ native language and health care beliefs. The fifth

multi-disciplinary team meeting. As a result, it allows healthcare students to work collaboratively as a multi-disciplinary team- developing non-technical skills and cultural competence. Throughout this essay, I will use Gibb’s (1988) reflective model to structure my reflection (Appendix 1). I have chosen Gibb’s model as it is easy to use and is the preferred method for most healthcare professionals (Jayatilleke & Mackie, 2013). I will be paying particular attention upon: psychosocial factors, cultural