Heritage assessment offers an affirmative holistic structure for measurement and provision for racially proficient care. Health tradition evaluation form visualizes health as “the state of equilibrium inside the body, mind, and spirit, and with the family, community, and the powers of the natural world (Spector, 2004b). It helps nurses detect one’s classification with hereditary traditions. At first, nurses need to understand their own beliefs in order to respect each individual’s wishes to facilitate communication that can lead to healing process. Nurses intermingle with people from diverse branch of the world with a mixture of civilizing practices, so cultural alertness seems essential in creating a patient-nurse relationship during the interview phase of the health assessment, initial step of the nursing process.
The goal of cultural competency is to decrease the racial and ethnic disparities that currently exist in the United States of America. The Joint Commission has identified culturally appropriate care as a priority and the standards now mandate educating staff in providing culturally appropriate care to all clients ("TJC," 2010). b. Thesis statement: Research suggests that providing culturally competent care improves healthcare quality because it influences healing, wellness and perception of illness. c. Main points: i. Understanding that cultural beliefs and practices of the clients will influence healing and wellness and establish a respectful relationship.
Watson’s theory takes on a holistic approach to providing care for the patients all around wellbeing. This includes not only the physical health but also the emotional and spiritual health as well. The theory’s major concepts include the ten clinical caritas factors, which are very important to define because they provide the framework for one to incorporate caring into their daily routine both professionally and personally. “Caritas” is a Greek word meaning to appreciate, to cherish and give special attention to (Watson, n.d). The ten caritas factors include (a) a practice of loving kindness; (b) being
Running head: CULTURAL SENSITIVITY 1 Cultural Sensitivity in Professional Communication with the Amish Kathy U. Walker Grand Canyon University: NUR 502 May 8, 2013 Cultural Sensitivity in Professional Communication With the Amish It is a well-known fact that disparities in healthcare exist among minority groups. The nursing profession, in an effort to deliver more appropriate and individualized patient care, is continually gathering data that can influence the patient’s experience. One very important arena is that of culture. Culture can be a determining factor in the care delivered, and therefore should be included in the approach to maintaining and restoring health (Barker, 2009). One such minority culture is that of the Amish.
By attending the cultural training and education, the health care practitioners (non-aboriginals) will be aware of how important it is to keep up with new approaches and communicate with Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders. “A raft of names has been used to describe care to Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders women and families including: cultural safety; cultural responsiveness; cultural capacity; cultural competence; cultural capability; cultural security; cultural respect; and cross-cultural efficacy” (Department of Health and Aging (2012), pg.7). These trainings can also help to build trust between health care practitioners and Indigenous people. This can then lead to improved health care, living standards such as comfort and safety within Indigenous community. In a conclusion, if healths care practitioners can show more understanding of Indigenous culture.
By doing so it supports inclusion and ensures effective collaboration between services (Jukes 2002). This is strengthened by Roper et al (1996) who said that to maintain health it is essential to educate carers who give the direct care to individuals. Emerson (2011) describes and enhances the need for training as research indicates that support staff feels they have a lack of knowledge and by not having the skills to recognize and identify health needs of an individual in their
I believe that providing the best possible care for each patient should be the primary concern of nursing. In doing so, the environment is crucial in the meeting the needs of the patient. Central concepts of nursing are “person, environment, health, and nursing” ( Masters, 2014, p.48).Careful consideration must be given in educating the patient about the illness. In early years, the responsibility fell upon the physician. In recent years, the responsibility has been transferred to the nurse to manage the patient’s environment in order to promote the patient’s recovery.
The Public health system is founded on “prevention of disease and promotion of the health of a population” by means of evidence based and socially accepted methods as stated in the Community Health and Wellness edition 4. Public health care is based on principles of cultural sensitivity, accessibility, community participation and intersectional collaboration that threads in very well with practitioners of naturopathy’s manner towards health care. Naturopathy otherwise known, as complimentary medicine is a method of healing that employs various lifestyle changes to gain optimal health. A naturopath believes that “good health involves more than just a remedy”. If we want to live long, joyful, happy lives we must endeavour to re-establish the proper relationship between ourselves – The whole body and mind – and nature in order to empower an individual to reach their highest level of health (Dr H.C.A Vogel, 1990).
In return these results in a person thinking more carefully about the way they speak to a person of a different culture and to clarify questions. The fourth principle says that cultures vary with respects to the number do’s and don’ts. Like the Native Americans they have beliefs about spiritual healing that is unbreakable by its tribal members. Because of these beliefs health care providers have to know the in’s and out’s so they can treat them medically without causing a cultural issue. The fifth principle urges a health care provider to study and learn the many differences and variations of certain cultural groups so they can better understand them.
Dr. Watson believes that caring is central to nursing and can be effective if practiced interpersonally. In her caring theory, Dr. Watson introduced ten carative factors that are essential to successful nursing care (Alligood, 2010). This paper will discuss the key concepts of Watson’s theory and it will describe how it applies to the nurse and patient relationship. The caring moment will be defined and the application of four carative factors will be described. According to Alligood (2010), “the formation of a humanistic-altruistic system of values, the instillation of faith-hope, the cultivation of sensitivity to one’s self and to others, and the development of a helping-trusting relationship” (p. 113) are the four carative factors.