I will discuss a patient scenario and reflect on cultural differences in particular how they may impact on establishing effective communication and engagement with the patient. As a nurse, my duty is to respect patients right to confidentiality; ensuring people are informed about how and why information is shared by those who will be providing their care and also about disclosing information if I believe someone may be at risk of harm (Nursing & Midwifery Council 2008). Therefore to maintain
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caring for patients, knowledgeable and well trained, committed to continuous quality improvement and cooperative work, secure in their employability, confident in the safety of their work, fairly compensated, and competent in caring for the wide diversity of the American people. RECOMMENDATIONS The training of physicians, nurses, and other health care workers must change to meet the demands of a changing health care industry. Education and training of health workers should provide those individuals
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knowledgeable and respectful of the differences in cultural and religious beliefs as this diversity continues. The American Nurses Association (ANA) states, “knowledge of cultural diversity is vital at all levels of nursing practice…nurses need to understand: how cultural group groups define health and illness; what cultural groups do to maintain wellness; what cultural groups believe to be the causes of illness; and how healers cure and care for members of cultural groups.” (1991). The Heritage Assessment
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Running head: CULTURAL DIVERSITIES ACKNOWLEDGE THRU HERITAGE Cultural Diversities Acknowledge Thru Heritage Assessment Tool Denise Streater GCU Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Hortense Turner March 23, 2012 Cultural Diversities Acknowledge Thru Heritage Assessment Tool Cultural diversities have facilitated challenges with in health care. To educate our clients there must be recognition of traditional heritage practices. The Heritage Assessment Tool has been devised to discover
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excellent nursing care (Srivastava, 2007). However, health care provider’s roles and responsibilities in meeting health care needs of the clients in consideration to cultural perspective and diversity are getting more challenging and complicated due to increased number of people from a group of multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society, which, in turn requires health care providers to acknowledge and understand variations of cultural healthcare beliefs, values and practices. Transcultural nursing is essential
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According to Giger and Davidhizar (2007), diversity has always been represented since the founding of the United States. Even though diversity was prevalent; the demographic profile continues to grow and change (Gordon, 2013). In order provide effective and efficient health services; health care organizations need to develop cultural and linguistic competence (Gordon, 2013). The aim for health care organizations is to achieve cultural competence as evidenced by every patient regardless of race, ethnicity
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understand there are more facets to cultural diversity such as language, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, socio-economic status, and occupational status. In this paper, the author will discuss how the Purnell Model relates to transcultural health care. The author will also discuss the different domains of the Purnell Model and assess how each of these domains play a part in the diversity of health care. The Purnell Model is designed of different cultural expectation of healthcare professionals
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A. Nursing Sensitive Indicators Nursing-sensitive indicators are broken down into three categories; structure, process, and outcome (Montalvo, 2007). Structures of indicators are the organization pieces of nursing care which may include; staffing levels, educational levels, experience level, and staffing mix. The process of nursing sensitive indicators includes; the methods of assessments, type of interventions, and methods of care. The outcomes of nursing sensitive indicators are directly relatable
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Importance of cultural, ethnic, gender difference by managers and professional in a business setting. In a professional organization, a successful manager must be able to deal with people with multiple cultural differences and diversity. Diversity is the presence of people from wide range of backgrounds possessing different traits. People tend to prejudge and place stereotypes on others that are not like them, to be an effective, manager and employee must be respectful and recognize
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nurses. Florence nightingale’s influence on nursing practice and the way her model of nursing education was adopted in the nineteenth century triggered the beginning of enormous change in nursing as a profession. According to Creasia and Friberg ( 5th edition), nursing has evolved over the course of more than 150 years since inception of the first nightingale school. Since then, nursing continues to encounter numerous and complex challenges like nursing shortages, increase in communicable diseases
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