Running head: CULTURAL HERITAGE TRADITIONS Cultural Heritage Traditions Michelle Pierson, RN Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429-V Leslie Greenberg August 12, 2012 Cultural Heritage Traditions Heritage and culture plays an important role in a person’s life. It can affect a person’s beliefs, habits, choices, and behaviors (Edelman & Mandel, 2010, p. 17). To provide competent care nurses must be able to understand different cultures, and identify how a person’s heritage can affect their health. The Heritage Assessment tool (HAT) can be used to help healthcare workers understand their patients, thus enabling them to provide culturally competent, holistic care. This paper will compare three different cultures, Mixed American, Hispanic and Jewish-American, and how these cultures affected the patient’s health maintenance, protection and restoration.
Cooper Green Hospital and the Community Care Plan HSA 599: Health Services Administration Capstone Abstract Cooper Green Mercy Hospital and the Community Care Plan provide a valuable service to the indigent population of Jefferson County. Blewett, Ziegenfuss, and Davern (2008) stated: The United States’ health care system has traditionally relied on safety net providers to meet the health care needs of people who do not have health insurance or who may have some coverage but still face financial barriers to getting the health care they need. A patchwork of local providers and services has developed over time to fill these gaps in health insurance coverage. (p. 460) This assignment will discuss six problems related to providing health care to an indigent population and five ways that the Community Care Plan will improve the community’s health status. There will also be a discussion regarding the five factors that point towards a need for change by Cooper Green Mercy Hospital.
In health promotion, it’s the duty of a nurse to be culturally competent, in order to make the best decision to provide quality patient’s care, even though the nurses’ cultural belief might be different. Heritage assessment will aid the nurse to identify and understand a patient’s cultural back ground and how it influences the patient’s health. In this paper, Hispanic, Philippines and African cultures were assessed. Starting with the writer, the writer is from Nigeria in West Africa, she hails from the eastern part of Nigeria of the Igbo tribe and speaks Igbo language. The writer comes from a
Heritage Assessment Tool Cultural beliefs and values are as unique and special as each individual. Patients are as diverse as the conditions they present with. Nurses need to have awareness not only of their own beliefs and values but of those they care for to provide culturally competent care. “Cultural care is a comprehensive model that includes the assessment of a client's cultural needs, beliefs, and health care practices” (GCU Lecture Notes [GCU], 2013, para. 4).
Health Disparities and Cultural Competence Margarone Momplaisir University of Texas at Pan American Professional Issues in Nursing Practice NURS 6209 Dr. Debra Otto Dr. Pam Sullivan April 26, 2011 Introduction Cultural competence has become a relevant issue in providing quality care within the health care system. Since the United States’ population is comprised of diverse racial and cultural backgrounds, cultural competence has become even more significant. Beliefs and approaches to health differ greatly from culture to culture because culture tends to shape the way we think, act, interact with others, but most importantly the way we respond to illnesses. These differences can serve as an immense resource for those who want to learn or explore how cultural differences can help to influence healthcare outcome. At the same time, this can pose enormous challenges to the healthcare provider who is called upon to deliver culturally competent care.
In the article, “Broadening the Scope of Nursing Practice” the authors offers an extensive look at the future of nursing professionals in the field of healthcare. The authors discuss the impact of Affordable Care Act (ACA) on primary care services, due to more Americans having access to healthcare insurance. There is currently a shortage of primary care providers and with the ACA insuring an additional 32 million Americans this poses a significant problem in the delivery of healthcare services. The author proposes the use of advanced-practice registered nurses (nurse practitioners) as primary care providers to help alleviate the shortage of providers. Advanced-practice registered nurses are healthcare providers that receive advanced didactic
There are some patient quality and safety measures which have been shown through research to be significantly affected by nursing care or “nurse-sensitive” measures. These are collected through a combination of medical record review and administrative data, according to common definitions. The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators is a leading voluntary system for collection and analysis of these data. (Nursing Quality Organization, 2011) “The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators® (NDNQI®) is a proprietary database of the American Nurses Association. The database collects and evaluates unit-specific nurse-sensitive data from hospitals in the United States.” (Nursing Quality Organization, 2011) Knowing about pressure ulcer prevention and the risk factors to look for would have helped the CNA to be more cognizant of the fact the this particular patient was in the beginning
What the Cultural Competence Means to Me Introduction What the cultural competence means to me? Before working in the health care field, I thought it was sufficient if I simply aware of the fact that there will be cultural differences and they will make all the difference. However, I faced so many issues at work which challenging my cultural competence; fortunately this course gave me the guideline in developing cultural competence in future practice. “Cultural competence refers to the ability of health care providers to apply knowledge and skill appropriately in interactions with clients in cross-cultural situations” (P323). As Dr. Campinha-Bacote constructed model, it evolved five different areas: cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural skills, Cultural encounters, and Cultural desire.
Bias toward this vulnerable population can result in inadequate care when presenting to the emergency department because of negative or apathetic attitudes by the nursing staff (Camilli & Martin, 2005, p. 313). Bias develops from the experiences that staff has in life. According to De Chesnay and Anderson “Ethnocentric bias is a term derived from anthropology and refers to the notion that one’s own cultural beliefs, practices, folkways, values, and norms are the right ones” (p. 453). It is learned in the workplace and the education in this project can decrease the bias toward this population and decrease barriers to care. Results The result of this educational project has determined barriers to this population receiving adequate, compassionate care in the emergency setting.
Many organizations around the United States are researching and trying to explore the causes of these disparities and will work to provide strategies to eliminate them by advancing understanding of the development and progression of diseases that contribute to them. “Racial and ethnic minorities tend to receive lower-quality health care than Whites do, even when insurance status, income, age, and severity of conditions are comparable, says a 2002 report of the Institute of Medicine. Among the better-controlled studies performed to ask the reasons why – some reason have been found to be: healthcare delivery systems and access to health care (cultural/linguistic barriers, system fragmentation and incentives to physicians to limit services), physician biases, patient perceptions and clinical uncertainty when interacting with patients of color”(Mays 201). The main diseases that African Americans die from are cancer, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. Overall, African Americans are more likely to develop cancer than persons of any other racial or ethnic group and have the highest cancer death rate than any other racial or ethnic