Importance Of Cultural Assessment

Cultural assessments are important in identifying exclusive necessities a patient may present with. In this paper I 'm going to discuss the key components of conducting a comprehensive cultural assessment. I will then go on to choose two of these components and reflect on my culture and how it impacts my attitude towards those aspects of providing cultural diverse care. Finally, I will create two nursing diagnosis is that reflect cultural diversity.
Key Components of a Comprehensive Cultural Assessment
There are twelve key components of conducting a comprehensive cultural assessment which include biocultural variations and aspects of the incidence of disease, communication, cultural affiliation, cultural sanctions and restrictions, developmental considerations, economics, education background, health related beliefs, kinship and social networks, nutrition, religion and spirituality, and values orientation. Theses component’s work together allowing staff to become cultural competent which can allow for better patient outcomes (Siegel, Reid-Rose, Joseph, , Hernandez,& Haugland 2016). The assessment begins with asking about biocultural variations and aspects of the …show more content…
During communication we tend to look at make direct eye contact. When an individual does not make eye contact while speaking we consider that to be rude and means that they are not listing to what we are day. We must understand that this is different between cultures and not making direct eye contact may be a culture norm. Making this observation during the cultural assessment can assure that both parties are communicating effectively. Next I will explore cultural sanction; we as Germans tend to show more negative feeling than Americans. America as a culture tend to focus on the positive and avoiding negative beliefs. I must take that into consideration when caring for patients like this and focus on positive