Personal Goals And The Care Plan

Indeed, nurses play an indispensable role in connecting patients with a new culture of care and serving as a voice for the socially marginalized. My contribution to the mission of the Nurse Corps Scholarship program in providing care to underserved communities will entail great knowledge base of different medical conditions with the ability to know my patients, their family situations, their cultural identities, social situations, the barriers and challenges they face in dealing with their

Who is the person the nurse is caring for? Where is that person from? Does this person speak English, or understand what the caregiver is saying? What is this person’s cultural background? What are the health beliefs of this person, what are their illness beliefs and practices? These questions are answered differently depending upon the person and their heritage. As healthcare providers it is important to have a broad knowledge base in regards to different cultures and people’s practices to deliver effective health care. In 2006, the population of

It has been my goal since beginning in the field of social work to begin addressing some of the disparities surrounding mental health that exist within varying communities. It is common knowledge that communities with a high rates of poverty are not considered a priority when receiving the help that is needed when addressing the mind's health. This is evidenced by the state of the healthcare system that exists within this country. Though healthcare has seen drastic changes over the past few years under the Obama administration, there still remains a gap in care to people who need it.

As nurses, we have to be transcultural and put our own beliefs and practices aside, and focus on the patient’s beliefs and practices in order to provide proper nursing interventions to help patients improve their health (DeSantis, 1994, p.708). The nurse must look at the patient as a way to learn about different cultures. The patient is the nurse’s source of information about the culture. Without understanding the effects of culture, many situations could be dangerous (DeSantis, 1994, p.714). Caregivers taking care of different populations must be aware of the many observances, and must ensure situational awareness to make the patients feel comfortable and trust that caregivers understand the patients’ needs in order for healing and health improvement to happen. Medical professionals have to be able to work with people from many different cultures as globalization

In today's society, the role of nurses has also expanded into one more area: cultural advocacy. What this means is that nurses must not see patients as a homogeneous group of ill individuals. Rather, they must see patients as humans who each come with their own rich history and culture. Being a cultural advocate means that patients are attended to in a manner that does not trivialize their customs and their views on how their care should be delivered. Religious and ethnic customs are respected by the nurse who fosters cultural advocacy because he or she believes that these things are part of what makes up the entirety of a patient, and is therefore a crucial aspect to address in providing holistic

As a Nurse, assessing a patient is the first step to provide effective healthcare. Giger and Davidhizar health assessment model was created in order to provide transcultural care in which the nurse would be able to understand the needs and behavior of patients that come from other cultures. This model is made up of six phenomena that include: Communication, Space, Social Organizations, Time, Environmental Control, and Biological Variations. The six phenomena help the nurse to be culturally competent to create relationships between the nurse and the patients. In “The Dressmaker of Khair Khana,” by Lemmon, one is able to understand about the culture of a woman in Afghanistan and the power of the ruling force around those times. The purpose of the book is for the readers to be culturally knowledgeable about the different cultures they could encounter in the future, in this case, in the health care field.

This essay adopts Madeleine Leininger’s transcultural nursing theory (Purnell, 2012). The relativity of care cannot be kept under the table today in preference for standardized nursing practices. In other words, patients must be given care in a manner that they are used to and that satisfies the most. Therefore, the role of the nurse is to delimit the cultural boundaries of each patient to understand better how to make the patient feel comfortable in the care process.

The nurse also evaluates their desire for the involvement of folk healers, the role of the family during illness and the level of social support. There are many different cultures present in communities, so it is helpful for the nurse to be familiar with the most predominant ones. Even among people of the same culture, there will be differences among individuals, so the key to successful teaching is to know and understand the patient and their circumstances well. Including them and their family in key areas of the education plan will engage them in the learning process and increase the chance of adhering to interventions (Bastable, 2014-c).

In every profession, there are underlying key aspects as to how that profession functions. Moreover, in the nursing profession there are processes used to facilitate quality care, as well as models to show the aspects of how we address this care. Likewise, Cultural aspects are deemed a high priority in establishing greater quality care, and are considered within each aspect of the Giger and DavidHizar Transcultural Model.

One of these norms that helped to guide care was the development of the therapeutic nurse-client relationship. Creating this relationship would have allowed for the establishment of trust and respect between the nurse, Jacqueline, and Jack, thereby fostering care and the improvement of personal health. Despite this nursing norm being implemented within the assessment as well as the care plans of both Canadian and Rwandan perspectives, there were also aspects that varied between the practices and norms implemented by the two perspectives. One norm in particular that was apparent in the Canadian, but not the Rwandan perspective was the utilization of community supports. Community supports can help to improve the health of individual(s) by employing various resources that can assist in reaching of the most desirable outcome(s) for said individual(s). As nursing in Canada is thought to be a practice that involves large amounts of collaboration, community supports are a common resource that many nurses rely on and incorporate into care. Moreover, although the Rwandan perspective did not suggest the use of community supports in Jack and Jacqueline’s care, this viewpoint still worked to address their goals, but in a way that solely involved the nurse providing

After completing the MBA program at St. John Fisher, I hope to be working in the administrative field in the Rochester area hospitals or a privately-owned healthcare company. One of my main goals as an individual in the healthcare field includes making the best possible environment for the patients and for the employees while continuing to bring diversity within. Poverty is defined as the state of being extremely poor. Unfortunately, this is something that continues to be a large issue across the country and is very prominent in our own neighborhood. Among individuals who are living in poverty and those who are considered middle class, they all hold something in common; the need for healthcare. My goal as a healthcare provider will be to offer

When establishing a care plan for Suzan, there were many aspects that had to be considered when planning how she could work towards improve her overall health. For one, as Suzan identified many goals in which she wanted to achieve, it was apparent that the nurse would have to collaborate with her to develop numerous actions that could be implemented in order to satisfy them. Additionally, it was evident that these actions must be developed from both a Rwandan and Canadian perspective. This is because it would provide Suzan with a variety of options as to how she could meet her goals, thus allowing her to work towards further improving her personal health, and possibly even the health of her husband and children as a result. With these aspects

For this reflection paper, I will discuss my journey as a nurse traveling through the country of Ethiopia. I will talk about my feelings and experience as I prepared myself to travel to Ethiopia. I will also discuss my feelings about the communities I was assigned to, as well as the environment, people, the local economy, the area hospitals, the workers, and the first patient that I cared for upon my stay there. After reflecting on all of these issues, I will end my reflection paper with a conclusion.

Before I can discuss why I am choosing to work in the health care field, health care first needs to be defined. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary health care is simply stated as, “Efforts made to maintain or restore physical, mental, or emotional well-being especially by trained and licensed professionals” (“Definition of Health Care”, 2017). In other words, it is how you are helping someone’s wellbeing in one way or another. This is precisely why I have chosen to construct my career in health care, to help others in the best way I can. I am passionate about what I am learning, I wish to work to make a difference in someone’s life, and there is one specific area of health care that is personal to me and continues to drive me to my goals

The transcultural theory did not explain nursing as nursing but nursing as a transcultural caring profession. Its goal is to provide human care to a