Cultural competency is the knowledge of how to correctly act and treat people of different social variables. In order to maintain a peaceful environment in the healthcare industry, all professionals should be educated on how to interact with other healthcare professionals and patients of different backgrounds. This experience will allow healthcare professionals to treat others with respect and dignity. Cultural competence can be an advantage and will decrease the possibility of unprofessional conduct. To get experience in cultural competency, first a person must understand and know one’s own culture.…
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.…
The self-evaluation artifact for the cultural competence project provides a schematic diagram for analyzing my strengths, challenges & growth opportunities to become more culturally competent in regards to providing pharmaceutical care. A series of 3 parts were completed to further my understanding of various cultures and their impact in providing patient-centered care. The first 2 parts entailed watching a series of provider perspective videos and writing reflections in regard to questions being asked. The third part of this project is the completed self-evaluation artifact sheet that represents my view and improvements that need to be made moving forward in order to be more culturally competent. This project was assigned by Dr. Christine…
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.…
The Australian healthcare system has been defined through historical, political and socio-cultural factors that have shaped healthcare and healthcare access in contemporary Australian society. Without the historical influences of Florence Nightingale, nursing would not be in the place that it is today. Political influences have had major impacts, through funding, without this funding it would not allow for the improvement of treatments, medicines, and healthcare that is given, it has also allowed for more people to have more access to the healthcare system. Socio-cultural influences are still having effects on whom, and how people are receiving healthcare. Through all three influences, it has allowed it easier to seek and receive healthcare,…
Culture may influence physical findings because some cultures emphasize healthy actions more than others do. For example, a nurse may find that an individual of Asian heritage has healthier physical findings then those of other heritages because they show a large amount of precautionary measures to prevent illness. In terms of health protection, the Asian culture emphasizes eating “correct and compatible foods” and reducing sedentary activities such as prolonged sitting and lying in bed. Those of African heritage may have less healthy physical findings because they do not emphasize as heavily leading an all-around healthy lifestyle, this culture uses “avoiding sick people”, as health maintenance which may help to avoid illness but it is also…
“The European American culture is a blended culture resulting from early immigrants in the United States, primarily Caucasians from Europe, who adapted to and adopted on another’s culture and, over time, have formed their own distinct, new cultures.” ( Purnell,214). The term European American is normally shortened to American. American culture are considered to be middle- class whites, others from out of the country believe that all Americans are rich, spoiled, drive fancy cars, and no poverty. “In 1607, in Jamestown, Virginia, the first English settlement and from 1607 until 1890, most immigrants to the United States came from Europe and essentially shared a common European culture.”…
Australia is a very multicultural country so by understanding the different expectations and traditions of each individual patient we can help reduce the racial gap. Cultural beliefs have been recognised as an important determinant to the psychological outcomes during the diagnosis and treatment of culturally diverse patients. Certain cultural traditions influence the roles and needs of the patient and their families in comparison to how we are taught to legally and ethically treat and converse with the patient. Culture is defined as similar norms, values, lifestyles, rules, language, beliefs, a set of shared and socially transmitted ideas about the world that are passed down from generation to generation within a group of people(1). In this…
World Health Organization states that differences in gender starts from the distinct behaviors and roles of male and female in an individual culture and are dictated by gender values and norms in that culture (WHO, 2014). Therefore, it is essential to study how both sexes, different sexual orientation, and people from different cultures approach their healthcare and how they feel about their health. Researching on particular population can result in interventions that are specialized to certain groups. These tailored interventions can be more efficient in the population they were done on, and on the hand, not beneficial in the treatment of the general population.…
The book The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, describes Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord’s developmental journey as a physician (Alvord & Van Pelt, 2000). Throughout the novel, Dr. Alvord integrates her Navajo beliefs, experiences, values, and behaviors into descriptive interpretations of various life events. Growing up she lived on a Native American reservation, surrounded by people who share the same values, morals, and beliefs. Later, Dr. Alvord attended Dartmouth College and subsequently Stanford University School of Medicine. At both schools, for her, the curriculum was more than academically challenging—it was emotionally and culturally challenging.…
However, as she moved to the United States she began to rely more on biomedical therapies, especially with her kids. Now that physicians and biomedicine are at her disposal she relies on them, so she prescribes to that model. The reasons she and her family relied on home-remedies are because of the lack of good healthcare professionals and the lack of trust in doctors’ ability and medicine effect. While talking to her, she mentioned how she has a good relationship with her care-takers and how respectful they are when it comes to her culture, which create positive and strong intercultural communications. Her health taskers understand that she is more comfortable with female physicians and they do understand that sometimes she has a language barrier, so they always have an interpreter available on phone just in case.…
Many things happen within the health care system since its constantly changing but those changes cause the health care administrators to go through more trouble. Since when things like that happen it would usually affect the way they see their patients or the way they get payed. For example, before they would just be able to charge the insurance what they think the treatment they provided cost. But now is not like that anymore since to get payed they need to show all the data they put down while seen the patient. Since that would let the insurance how much work they did and what they think they should pay the facility.…
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.…
TITLE OF YOUR PAPER The US is on target to become one of the most diverse nations in the world, with a projection of minorities making up 57% of the population by 2060. (Loftin, Hartin, Branson, and Reyes, 2013, page 10) This astounding number leaves many questions for culturally competent health care.…