The growing and changing demography in the United State today, with the disparities in the health status of people from diverse cultural backgrounds is a challenge for health care professionals to consider cultural diversity as a priority. This is because, being culturally diverse will assist health care professionals perform cultural and health assessment with ease on individuals from different cultural background (Campinha-Bacote, J, 2011). The main idea behind this discussion board is to define cultural assessment, describe component of comprehensive cultural assessment and identify communication skills that facilitate cultural competent in health care.
Cultural Assessment
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Communication is a very important component in health care and include verbal and non verbal. During a cultural assessment, the provider or nurse should first of all assess the client needs for communication to avoid any barrier to communication such as, language, listening, understanding and the ability of patient to express self. Here we should ask question and find out language preference of the patient and what language he speaks or read at home, to properly assess them (Andrews, Margaret M., and Joyceen S. Boyle, 2016). The health care professionals should determine the listening, understanding and expressive ability of the patients in case a recommendation is needed (Campinha-Bacote, J, 2011). Nutrition is also an important part of a cultural assessment and composes of nutrient that keeps the body healthy and aid in healing process. We should assess patient for any nutritional disorder (bulimia and anorexia, and food tolerance), know what type of food they eat (some food can interact with medication therapy), how is it serve, what type of utensils they use them (Andrews, Margaret M., and Joyceen S. Boyle, 2016). I happened to have some patients who use hands to eat instead of utensil and some don’t eat pork, beef and fish, so I have to be aware and check their food whenever it’s being served. Last but not the least is the educational background of the patient. Education is key to health assessment and care, and therefore we have to assess the level of education of the patient to determine his/her knowledge regarding health related issues: know what learning style are they familiar with, can they read and understand health information and materials handed to them, and their ability to access the internet for health related information? (Andrews, Margaret M., and Joyceen S. Boyle,
Cultural Assessment
Cultural assessments are considered one of the most important …show more content…
Communication is a very important component in health care and include verbal and non verbal. During a cultural assessment, the provider or nurse should first of all assess the client needs for communication to avoid any barrier to communication such as, language, listening, understanding and the ability of patient to express self. Here we should ask question and find out language preference of the patient and what language he speaks or read at home, to properly assess them (Andrews, Margaret M., and Joyceen S. Boyle, 2016). The health care professionals should determine the listening, understanding and expressive ability of the patients in case a recommendation is needed (Campinha-Bacote, J, 2011). Nutrition is also an important part of a cultural assessment and composes of nutrient that keeps the body healthy and aid in healing process. We should assess patient for any nutritional disorder (bulimia and anorexia, and food tolerance), know what type of food they eat (some food can interact with medication therapy), how is it serve, what type of utensils they use them (Andrews, Margaret M., and Joyceen S. Boyle, 2016). I happened to have some patients who use hands to eat instead of utensil and some don’t eat pork, beef and fish, so I have to be aware and check their food whenever it’s being served. Last but not the least is the educational background of the patient. Education is key to health assessment and care, and therefore we have to assess the level of education of the patient to determine his/her knowledge regarding health related issues: know what learning style are they familiar with, can they read and understand health information and materials handed to them, and their ability to access the internet for health related information? (Andrews, Margaret M., and Joyceen S. Boyle,