Assignment: Community Health Nurse

Culture and the values learned within a cultural group are critical to how people perceive health, health care, and nursing care providers (Maurer, Smith, 2013). A community health nurse be educated in the cultural values, beliefs, views and their accepted way of life in order to provide care in a manner that the patient population will accept and understand.

Whether community/public health nurses focus on an individual, group, or community as the unit of care, these concepts must be understood to provide the best possible nursing care (Maurer, Smith, 2013)

The deliberate act of keeping cultural heritage from the present for the future is known as preservation (Maurer, Smith, 2013) . These are practices that have been past down through multiple generations and provide a sense of pride to that culture. The Chinese culture of acupuncture to relive pain is a cultural preservation practice (americannursetoday.com, 2017). This has been shown to proven to control pain and can be used as part of the care plan for pain control. They risk infections, organ damage and bleeding if not preformed correctly(mayoclinic.org , 2017). The nurse may not believe in the practice and try to encourage medication only.

Assignment: Community Health Nurse

Assignment: Community Health Nurse

Cultural accommodation is respecting a practice of a culture that has not been proven to work but does not cause harm to the patient (Maurer, Smith, 2013) . The Mexican culture places a metal object on the navel of a sick newborn because it is believed assist in healing (americannursetoday.com, 2017). . This has no evidenced based research proving any type of healing nor places the new born in danger. The nurse will incorporate this practice in the care plan of the new born showing respect for the cultural practice. May prevent the parents from seeking medical interventions in a timely manner resulting in a very ill newborn when seeking care. The care giver may not fully understand this practice and perceived the parents as neglectful and possible case for protective services.

Cultural repatterning is changing a practice that may interact in medical treatment (Maurer, Smith, 2013) . The African American Culture believes in prayers and folk medicines for healing. This may prevent the patient from compliance with their treatment plan that has a proven positive outcome. A cancer diagnosis brings increased prayers, home made medicine that has been past down from previous generations and refusal of medical treatment. My culture believes that air causes cancer to spread and will refuse recommended proven medical intervention. Having little to no understand, faith or trust medical practice because Jesus heals the sick. No matter how much information is given or who presents it the cultural practice of prayer over rules all.

Culture brokering gives professionals the tools to assess cultural factors so they can work more productively with clients from diverse backgrounds (Jezewski, 1990) . If a patient does not speak or understand English a culture broker will translate the information between the care giver and patient. . As the medical professional explains a cardiac cauterization to a patient, the broker can use a brochure with pictures of the procedure as a visual tool. Translating each step in correlation with the doctor, pictures, terms the patient understands being mindful of cultural implication of medical care by strangers. The patient may not have trust in the broker if no prior relationship existed and refuse treatment.

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ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.