Issue discussed
The issue of this article, is that as a Nurse, it our own duty to be the advocate for our patients, and care for our patients with the best of our abilities. However, possible barriers may arise in doing so when we have patients of a different cultural background. It requires knowledge of the patients’ culture to incorporate there culture into their care so they feel comfortable emotionally, mentally, and spiritually while they are undergoing treatment.
Authors’ Position of Issue
The author states in the article that out of the surveys three common barriers occur; lack of resources, diversity in patient population, and biases/prejudices are barriers.
My Position
For this particular study I agree that lack of resources, diversity in patient population, and biases/prejudices are barriers in providing culturally competent care; …show more content…
According to Kaiser Family Foundation, which is a non-profit organization that focuses on health care issues in the United States, there are a total number of 3,131,003 professionally active registered nurses in the United States. The South-Eastern state that contains the lowest amount of professionally active nurses is Mississippi, with an amount of 31,479- with the state with the most nurses being Florida, with 229,381 active nurses. These numbers give us a perspective on two things. One, being it would be useful to know what state this study was conducted, because the difference between 374 participants out of a total of 31479 or 229381 nurses is a huge different in the strength of a sample size. Regardless of this fact, this gives us an understanding about what 1.18% of the Nursing population believed in the lowest state, and .016% of the nurses in highest state. I certainly believe that the possible validity of these issues raised in this article could be in jeopardy based on the sample
The issue of this article, is that as a Nurse, it our own duty to be the advocate for our patients, and care for our patients with the best of our abilities. However, possible barriers may arise in doing so when we have patients of a different cultural background. It requires knowledge of the patients’ culture to incorporate there culture into their care so they feel comfortable emotionally, mentally, and spiritually while they are undergoing treatment.
Authors’ Position of Issue
The author states in the article that out of the surveys three common barriers occur; lack of resources, diversity in patient population, and biases/prejudices are barriers.
My Position
For this particular study I agree that lack of resources, diversity in patient population, and biases/prejudices are barriers in providing culturally competent care; …show more content…
According to Kaiser Family Foundation, which is a non-profit organization that focuses on health care issues in the United States, there are a total number of 3,131,003 professionally active registered nurses in the United States. The South-Eastern state that contains the lowest amount of professionally active nurses is Mississippi, with an amount of 31,479- with the state with the most nurses being Florida, with 229,381 active nurses. These numbers give us a perspective on two things. One, being it would be useful to know what state this study was conducted, because the difference between 374 participants out of a total of 31479 or 229381 nurses is a huge different in the strength of a sample size. Regardless of this fact, this gives us an understanding about what 1.18% of the Nursing population believed in the lowest state, and .016% of the nurses in highest state. I certainly believe that the possible validity of these issues raised in this article could be in jeopardy based on the sample