Running Head: HEALTHCARE AND THREE DISTINCT BELIEFS Diversity in Beliefs Each culture has its own beliefs regarding healing, health, faith, treatment, health care providers, and disease. Everyone's practices and beliefs are brought into the health care system, so it is important as nurses to respect each patient's faith and beliefs. It is hard as health care professionals who have been taught Western medicine to understand other beliefs, but it is important to remember as nurses the goal
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Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity Religion and spirituality are driving forces for a majority of the world’s population today. There are 13 major world religions, including Christianity Orthodox, Christianity Western, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Bahá’í, Confucianism, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism (Holidays, Festivals, 2010). When addressing health care issues, it’s important to remember
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Cultural Diversity 1 Running head: Cultural Diversity Cultural Diversity In the autumn of 2006 the population of the United States exceeded 300 million people. Of those 300 million, approximately 98 million, or 33%, of them are a part of a minority group (Jarvis, 2008). This growing number can be attributed to the increase number of immigrants coming to the United States for the opportunity to have a better life for themselves and their families. It is predicted that by the year 2050
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Culturally Competent Nursing for the Egyptian Patient Cultural competence in nursing is imperative for effective patient care. A nurse must know his or her own values and beliefs as well as knowing about a patient cultural practices in relation to healthcare. Cultural competence is defined by some as: “the learned, shared and transmitted values, beliefs, norms and lifeways of a particular group that guides their thinking, decisions and actions.” Also it is noted that an important change to this definition
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Culture and Diversity in Nursing Amanda M. Jones Trinity Valley Community College Associate Degree Nursing Level II January 16, 2015 Culture and Diversity in Nursing Cultural Assessment With there being such a plethora of cultures in the world, there are so many different beliefs and practices involving health and wellness, that almost everyone has a different definition of health, and different views on disease and illness in general. My definition of health involves many different
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Differences in Health Traditions and Cultures Growing diversity in the United States is veracity in the 21st century. Undeniable proof on poor quality of health care provided to ethnic and racial minorities of all ages, compared to non-minorities, were provided by The Institute of Medicine. Attempts to remove health inequalities rising from differences in culture should concentrate on creating patient-clinician reliance relationships, knowing the cultural surrounding conditions of health
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Americans, immigrants from South Asia, and immigrants from the Middle East (Padela & Curlin, 2013). Despite the ethnic diversity within Muslim Americans, Padela and Curlin (2013) state that empirical research shows that “religions shape their adherents’ understanding of disease and illness, their health-related behaviors, their interactions with and expectations of the healthcare system, and their adherence to medical recommendations” (p. 1334). Thus, in order to provide culturally competent care
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assessment tool is a way to assess how deeply a given person identifies with their traditional heritage (Spector, 2009). The tool serves as an important step in understanding cultural competency and health beliefs of both the patient and health care provider resulting in better patient health outcome. The questions in the tool serve as an opening door for starting a detailed conversation about the culture, belief, health and family value and tradition. This paper will compare the health protection, health
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population. By 2000, this number declined to about 75 percent, and by 2050 non-Hispanic whites will be in the numerical minority (U.S. Census Bureau 2001, 2002). This rapid diversification requires healthcare organizations to pay closer attention to cross-cultural issues if they are to meet the healthcare needs of the nation and continue to maintain a high standard of care. Looking at the Country as a whole the current area of discussion for this paper is the area of Western North Carolina and the
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Heritage Health Assessment Tracy Shrum Grand Canyon University Heritage Health Assessment A complete health assessment needs to take into consideration a family’s risk factors by exploring their lifestyle, biological and environmental factors, social, psychological, cultural and spiritual dimensions that all impact their health care. The nurse’s role with families is to educate on preventive health services, raise awareness of modifiable risk factors and assist the family in influencing healthy
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