At the same time, this can pose enormous challenges to the healthcare provider who is called upon to deliver culturally competent care. This paper will address the historical aspects of cultural competence, its social, political, and legal implications, as well as, investigate the research findings, and finally demonstrate the importance of cultural competence in respect to today’s nursing challenges and the potential impact on the future. History of Cultural Diversity in the United States and in Nursing The United States of America has been regarded as a country of diversity since its foundation. Early settlers came from many parts of the European continent, speaking
Alarm Fatigue in Health Care: A Concept Analysis Chamberlain College of Nursing NR-501: Theoretical Basis for Advanced Nursing Practice Alarm Fatigue in Health Care: A Concept Analysis Alarm fatigue in health care has grown to be an ever-growing concern in the health care arena, especially when looking at patient safety concerns. There must be an understanding of the problem before we can develop policies and effective strategies to counter this problem. The concept of alarm fatigue in health care will be evaluated utilizing the method developed by Walker and Avant (2010) that identifies and gives the significance of the attributes, antecedents, and end-consequences of alarm fatigue in health care. This will be developed based off of literature review, along with the use of model and contradictory cases to emphasize the data discovered in the review stage. Key words utilized during the search include alarm, fatigue, alarm fatigue, nursing, interruptions, & distractions.
diseases and climate) + vulnerability (Human feature e.g. healthcare services.) – Management (human feature) (http://www.biomedcentral.com) The health risk equation shows that there is a complex interaction between the physical and human features that cause health risks. A geographical feature is one which is causes by the environment. This includes latitude, altitude and climate.
Ethical Health Care Issues Paper Jennifer May 05, 2014 HCS/545 Ethical Health Care Issues Paper As health care providers, we have a duty to perform our job following the rules and regulations laid out to us by the nurse practice acts provided by each state. The professional duties include the balance between competency in skills, and application of ethics that will help promote the provision of the quality of care to the public (Harris, 2008). However, as a healthcare professional, there are many ethical health care issues that are encountered with patients. A major ethical issue that often arises is the refusal of receiving blood products when deemed necessary by medical staff because of certain religious beliefs. This ethical issue often arises with patients who belong to the religious group called Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Chapter 1 Review Deanna Scowden 1. The legal and ethical issues facing everyone in the health care field as the world changes. The impact of rising costs on laws & ethics of health care delivery. The rights, responsibilities, and concerns of healthcare consumers. 2.
At the same time, this can pose enormous challenges to the healthcare provider who is called upon to deliver culturally competent care. This paper will address the historical aspects of cultural competency, its social, political, and legal implications, as well as, investigate the research findings, and finally demonstrate the importance of cultural competency in respect to today’s nursing challenges and the potential impact on the future. History of Diversity in the United States and in Nursing The United States of America has been regarded as a country of diversity since its foundation. Early settlers came from many parts of the European continent, speaking different languages with varying religious beliefs, customs, skills, and talents (Parrillo, 2008). Native Americans being the original inhabitants had their own cultural beliefs that differ from the settlers.
The ethical system is a set of principles of right conduct and it is a theory of moral values. There has been environmental impact on the society with life cycles, water usage, air emissions, and gas and oil. The environment has issu with the global warming and how the weather reaction to the environment, such as
This process produces environmental pollution while the processes of consuming processed goods have the long term effect on health consequences. For example, eating processed foods, chemical additives etc. Available at: http://www.healthknowledge.org.uk/public-health-textbook/medical-sociology-policy-economics/4a-concepts-health-illness/section1 accessed: 04th November 2013 Interaction approaches to health- The Interactionists approach to health could be a label of assumptions. For example some people who are suffering a serious illness do not consider themselves as ill. This could be approached to health if a professional and the patients come together to negotiate how ill the person is and whether or not they are assigned to be “signed off work”.
Windshield Survey Reflection April 30, 2012 James Fleming Nursing 405 In the community there are many issues involving the health of all. Cultural diversity can lead to an even more challenging impact on the health of a community, enhancing the disparities of health and environment. Cultural diversity encompasses every person in a community thereby affecting the health and productivity of all. This review will cover the cultural diversity, risk indicators identified from Healthy People 2020. Discussion will touch on intervention and how nursing can be involved.
Questions of confidentiality, privacy, risk taking and generally the exercise of personal choice are all ethical dilemmas encountered and processed on a daily basis in the context of social care. Ethics is also the process that health services follow in order to explore, justify and effect change - for instance if a new procedure, drug or surgical technique is being developed it must at some point be used with patients. The examination of potential positive and negative effects or outcomes, and the provision of appropriate, accessible information about these to the patient to enable informed consent, is an example of applied ethics. [edit]Social and educational activities Ideally, care workers need to make care environments not merely "tolerable", but enjoyable and fulfilling for the clients; this might involve carrying out social and educational activities with those in care. Students of H&SC will need to learn about how to run games, activities, reading groups, excursions and so on, so that the people receiving care get the most out of it as they possibly can.