Cultural Competence
History and Background Mark and Louise Zwick founded Casa Juan Diego in 1980. Casa Juan Diego, located in Houston, Texas, provides a safe home for undocumented families that come from all over the world, seeking asylum. Many of these families are escaping from gang, political, and domestic violence and come to Casa Juan Diego in hopes of starting a new life here in the United States. This community filled with undocumented families who are attempting to start over, searching for jobs and a better life here. Casa Juan Diego gives them a home, food, and clothing. I interviewed a nurse named Holly and she said that, “Casa Juan Diego follows the Corporal Works of Mercy. For example some of the Corporal Works of Mercy are: feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the traveler and comfort the sick.”
Why I chose Casa Juan Diego As a Bilingual Health Care Studies major, I chose Casa Juan Diego as a place that I have never visited …show more content…
118). In this reading it goes perfectly with how the community at Casa Juan Diego provides health services to their community. In the reading by Chavez, Turalba and Malik, they discussed the importance of educating students on cultural competency in a healthcare setting. Having doctors and nurses at Casa Juan Diego be culturally competence is extremely important due to how many people come seeking medical attention and asylum. By being culturally competent, the doctors and nurses can make the patients feel comfortable in the new environment by sympathizing with what the patients are going through. In the reading, they discussed that “Demographic shifts, coupled with growing evidence of health disparities between low-income multicultural populations and majority populations, underscore the need for democratic, community-based, culturally competent teaching” (Chavez, Turalba, &
History and Background Mark and Louise Zwick founded Casa Juan Diego in 1980. Casa Juan Diego, located in Houston, Texas, provides a safe home for undocumented families that come from all over the world, seeking asylum. Many of these families are escaping from gang, political, and domestic violence and come to Casa Juan Diego in hopes of starting a new life here in the United States. This community filled with undocumented families who are attempting to start over, searching for jobs and a better life here. Casa Juan Diego gives them a home, food, and clothing. I interviewed a nurse named Holly and she said that, “Casa Juan Diego follows the Corporal Works of Mercy. For example some of the Corporal Works of Mercy are: feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the traveler and comfort the sick.”
Why I chose Casa Juan Diego As a Bilingual Health Care Studies major, I chose Casa Juan Diego as a place that I have never visited …show more content…
118). In this reading it goes perfectly with how the community at Casa Juan Diego provides health services to their community. In the reading by Chavez, Turalba and Malik, they discussed the importance of educating students on cultural competency in a healthcare setting. Having doctors and nurses at Casa Juan Diego be culturally competence is extremely important due to how many people come seeking medical attention and asylum. By being culturally competent, the doctors and nurses can make the patients feel comfortable in the new environment by sympathizing with what the patients are going through. In the reading, they discussed that “Demographic shifts, coupled with growing evidence of health disparities between low-income multicultural populations and majority populations, underscore the need for democratic, community-based, culturally competent teaching” (Chavez, Turalba, &