The increasing racial, dialectal and religious assortment in Brisbane inhabitants means that to be safe, health facilities and suppliers need to be culturally suitable and receptive. There is cumulative acknowledgment in Australia that racial groups experience substantial disparities in personal wellbeing and medical services compared with the average population. Research indicates a strong link between cultural incompetence, and poor quality health outcomes and significant risks A study and research was conducted in 2005 labelled “Cultural Safety and Cultural Competence in Health Care and Nursing” where 145 participants were interviewed on their knowledge and understanding of incompetent and culturally safe healthcare towards ethnically and…
Cultural competence and diversity are very important. According to Parker (2015) it builds understanding of our unique populations and helps us to develop innovative ways to reach out and care for patients. It is with a certain inevitability that the United States and its demographic move towards a more culturally diverse population. It is then imperative for health care to adjust to meet demands of the people. It starts from the top, the leaders and the managers, it moves down to the supervisors, then the rank and file accordingly.…
Cultural competency is defined as being “Able to work effectively in cross-cultural situations; develop standards, policies, practices, and attitudes that value diversity (Carol Brannon).” I believe this means valuing diversity in clients or patients in order to address and meet their needs with total respect. We live in a diverse population, this means that in our daily lives we may encounter and interact with people from different cultural backgrounds. Cultural competency comes into play when interacting with people of various cultural backgrounds, because as culturally competent professionals we must be aware of those differences in order serve and treat our clients or patients with the respect they deserve. “Not only is there more diversity…
According to the National Institute of Health, “ cultural competency has a positive effect on patient care delivery by enabling providers to deliver services that are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs …” (NIH, 2015). This is a critical aspect, as personal values and religious beliefs of many hinder the acceptance of the LGBT community. Thus, failing to include those factors will negatively impact of the delivery of SPEAK LIFE’s message.…
COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE Communication techniques are most important tools in nursing, however nurses have need to be informed about culture, also nurses are need to be prepared for dramatic changes in the united states healthcare industry. Day by day United States have become adverse society, because they have a lot of new comers, and also our patients become increasingly diverse. Nurses need to know about culture because it influences both nurses and patients healthcare perceptions and behaviors. Nurses need to know also how to become familiar with their own healthcare belief and behaviors.…
Culturally based care guides decisions and actions in clinical matters. Since all cultures have unique care knowledge and practices. As such, the culture specific values provide practitioners with patient roles and expectations, the amount of information needed for treatment, management of death and dying, and the processes for decision-making as well as gender and family roles. This paper discusses a cultural interview carried out between a student nurse and a male client of Indian-American descent. The student nurse was introduced to the client through work relations and the interview took three days to complete.…
A pitfall that can occur with cultural competency with Healthcare is having a patient leaving a hospital without the proper care needed just because of a language barrier. The patient comes back worse or never comes back because they won't get the proper care needed. Cultural competency in Healthcare is necessary because those who get treated with respect and get comprehended get their needs met at all times. For example, when you walk into a store and you ask for help on finding an item and they treat you with respect you will leave the store satisfied and you will most likely return. Here America we have different languages spoken on a daily basis, as kids from parents that speak another language we have to translate in parent conferences…
I am a young black Haitian-American woman who is spiritual, educated, political, and family oriented. As a child, I grew up in low-income family home with both parents under one roof. Without a doubt, both of my parents are political, for they are democrat individuals who raised their children to be acquainted with civil rights and social disparities. However, I do believe my identities fit into a culturally competent behavioral health plan because of cultural disparities in health care. Therefore, minorities are less likely to have access to available mental health services and often receive a poorer quality of treatment of care.…
Eromosele, I love Grand Canyon University. The primary aim of cultural competence and movement is to increase health quality, and reduce disparities by concentrating on people of color and other disadvantaged populations (p.vii). Cultural competence is defined for our purposes as the attitudes, knowledge, and skills necessary for providing quality care to diverse populations (California Endowment, 2013). The importance of cultural competence in nursing is that it helps to address patient centered-health disparities, life values, respects, and preferences.…
1. Introduction/Background: Cultural competency is primarily accomplished through programs aimed at increasing knowledge, enhancing self-awareness and strengthening the ability of health care professionals to have meaningful health interactions with the Indigenous populations they serve (Health Council of Canada, 2012). Most importantly, the integration of cultural competency across the continuum of health services has the potential to improve the quality of health care encounters between health providers and Indigenous peoples accessing health services (Baba, 2013). The purpose of my interview was to examine how recently-graduated registered psychiatric nurses integrate cultural competency into their nursing practice.…
Australia is a country with a rich multicultural heritage, where diversity of language, culture and, religion continue to grow throughout the nation; working within a workplace with such diversity presents challenges to the health care system. To meet the needs of such diverse groups requires nurses and other health care providers to successfully practice cultural competence when it comes to the delivery of care (National Health and Medical Research Council, 2006, p.4). Cultural competence in health care WRITE SOMETHING HERE ABOUT MEDIA EFFECTS AND RACISM IN HEALTH. Media Article One http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-11/close-the-gap-initiatives-failing-in-key-areas-mundine-says/6084512 Key Issues Media Article Two Aboriginal Health is…
The health care system is very difficult to access due to many complex issues, such as disparity. Health and health care disparities refer to differences in health and health care between population groups. In other words health disparity generally refers to higher burden of illness, injury, disability or mortality experienced by one population group relative to another groups. In addition it indicated the difference between groups in health coverage, access to care and quality of care.…
Cultural Diversity and Its Influence on Nursing Practice Cultural Diversity is a key component to quality patient centered care. The Nurse needs to be aware of their own cultural attitudes. It is also very import that as nurses we understand the patient’s cultural preferences and needs. Cultural competence is becoming more important because of the increase in cultural diversity in our country. In the United States 13% of our population was not born in this country and another 8-10million are living here without documentation.…
Conducting cultural assessments on each individual patient is a necessity in nursing. This paper will describe some of the key components of conducting a comprehensive cultural assessment. I will also choose two of the listed components and reflect on my own culture and how it could possibly impact my attitude toward a patient of a different culture. Lastly, I will create two nursing diagnoses, for a patient who comes into a physician’s office that I work for, with a newly diagnosed problem. These diagnoses will reflect cultural diversity that might pose a barrier to communication with this patient.…
Madeleine Leininger is considered to be the mother of transcultural nursing and the cultural care theory. She earned a nursing confirmation from St. Anthony 's Hospital School of Nursing, trailed by college degrees at Benedictine College and Creighton University. She also received a Master of Science in Nursing at Catholic University of America. She later concentrated on social and social human sciences at the University of Washington where she obtained her PhD in 1966. Dr. Leininger also held at least three honorary doctoral degrees and served on numerous faculty boards as well as a dean at several colleges and universities prior to her death in 2012.…