Cultural Diversity: Clients, Context, and Caring Health Promotion and Caring for Communities and Families ------------------------------------------------- Week 4: Friday October 11, 2013 Prologue Care is the essence of nursing. Care involves recognizing and transcending the barriers and challenges established by cultural differences. The nurse considers the common threads that are held by all, as well as the unique elements maintained by the client What is Culture? * Culture is a
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Concept of Care from a Nursing Perspective Student’s Name Institution’s Name Concept of Care from a Nursing Perspective Care is a universal concept that applies primarily to health. From time immemorial, women have been considered as the primary caregivers in family units. Women always have been responsible for the well-being of the family and the community. If a member of the family or the community fell ill, the women were the only ones tasked with the responsibility of caring
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Issues and Trends in Nursing March 24, 2013 The Problem Healthcare leaders acknowledge that workplace diversity and cultural competence are important to providing health services, as cited by (Davis, 1998). Perceptions of nursing managers related to workplace diversity and cultural competences have not
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allowing their patient's nurses to properly care for their daughter. The attempts were made in English, which is not the primary language of either parent. Subtle cultural nuances and colloquialisms were omitted because there was no Vietnamese translator to properly augment the communication process. Cultural perceptions, and cultural beliefs are not necessarily 'wrong', but they may need a better explanation of why they might best be incorporated with western medicine, or even eliminated for the
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The findings of the study were detailed and covered cultural, social, spiritual, and economic factors related to care in these patients. The researchers established that the participants preferred the care they received from nurse practitioners to care they had received from physicians. Nurse practitioners
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explore and build upon my two passions, nursing and service. Since my Freshman year when I heard the inspiring stories about the nursing service trips from older students whom I admired, I have been eager to take part. I recognize the truly special experience these trips provide not only to grow as a nurse, but as a person, while simultaneously helping local communities of South America and the Caribbean. Thus, participating in the Haiti or Dominican Republic nursing service trips would provide a unique
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Nursing philosophy “identifies what is believed to be the basic or central phenomena of the discipline, relates nursing to a particular world view, and provides some information on how one may come to learn about the world”. (p. 13, Salsberry, 2008). My personal philosophy of nursing evolved over the years and includes my observations, beliefs, thoughts, and practices. The purpose of this paper is to discuss my personal philosophy of nursing and the personal and professional experiences that have
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Hence, through this essay the concepts of culture, race and ethnicity will be explored. Moreover, how to face these challenges during practice developing transcultural and cross-cultural communication and showing professionalism, cultural competence and cultural response will be considered followed by two cultural issues, nursing culture and patient culture. Culture is a set of presumptions, values, ideas, expectations, meanings, norms and practices that have been transmitted and acquired throughout
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Outline: Study Abroad and Nursing Education I. Introduction to study abroad and nursing education A. Definition of study abroad i. Study abroad, service learning, international immersion programs, global health, global service learning– McKinnon & McNelis (2013) ii. Three types of learning defined 1. Global, international, and intercultural – Riner (2011) B. Relationship of study abroad to nursing education i. Increased global awareness, cultural sensitivity and competence, and dispelling
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philosophy of the nursing faculty at the College of Nursing is congruent with the missions of the College of Nursing and the University of Missouri—St. Louis. Faculty and staff are dedicated to providing nursing education that prepares graduates as professionals to practice in generalist nursing roles, advanced nursing roles, and as nurse scientists in all health care systems. All academic programs reflect the faculty’s beliefs about nursing, clients, health, environment, and nursing education. The
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