In this assignment, a culturally competent health care program will identify health care needs of a specific population, veterans diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, MS. The impact health care disparities can have on the health care service utilization and nursing care of veterans will be addressed. Furthermore, the political, economic, governmental, regulatory, and ethical factors affecting veterans will be addressed while discussing how these factors can be considered barriers and enhancements to health care. Lastly, the health care disparities, traditions, norms, belief, values, and attitudes towards veterans’ health care and impact these disparities can have on health care service utilization and nursing care will be examined.
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For example, in the same way that MS is unique for each individual, so is the veterans’ medical care and treatment options. Nurses’ assessment and identification of health care needs should occur to those affected by MS whenever there is a need for knowledge, wisdom, caring, leadership, practice, or education (American Nurses Association [ANA], 2015).
A health needs assessment of my community identified numerous health care needs and concerns of the local population, veterans with MS. Looking to the widest context of health and beyond the medical model alone, identified numerous needs including physical, mental, spiritual, and spiritual. However, the biopsychosocial model is a broad view of MS and varies across cultures.
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In this community, many have a belief in God and profess to be Catholic, Protestant, or Baptist and can worship at nearby rural churches. Fortunately, clergy and laymen will often visit home-bound church members. Several studies have found patients with chronic disease may use spirituality or religiosity as a beneficial coping resource (Bussing et al., 2013). However, in this rural community, if a veteran does not have a church affiliation, spiritual needs are not addressed. Consequently, the nurse case manager’s knowledge of spiritual resources and referrals
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For example, in the same way that MS is unique for each individual, so is the veterans’ medical care and treatment options. Nurses’ assessment and identification of health care needs should occur to those affected by MS whenever there is a need for knowledge, wisdom, caring, leadership, practice, or education (American Nurses Association [ANA], 2015).
A health needs assessment of my community identified numerous health care needs and concerns of the local population, veterans with MS. Looking to the widest context of health and beyond the medical model alone, identified numerous needs including physical, mental, spiritual, and spiritual. However, the biopsychosocial model is a broad view of MS and varies across cultures.
Physical …show more content…
In this community, many have a belief in God and profess to be Catholic, Protestant, or Baptist and can worship at nearby rural churches. Fortunately, clergy and laymen will often visit home-bound church members. Several studies have found patients with chronic disease may use spirituality or religiosity as a beneficial coping resource (Bussing et al., 2013). However, in this rural community, if a veteran does not have a church affiliation, spiritual needs are not addressed. Consequently, the nurse case manager’s knowledge of spiritual resources and referrals