DQ2 Compare and contrast culture, ethnicity, and acculturation.

HLT 306 Advanced Patient Care

Week 3 Discussion

DQ2 Compare and contrast culture, ethnicity, and acculturation.

HUDA

Because it emphasizes health justice via patient-centered care, which necessitates treating each patient as an individual, cultural competency in nursing is significant. Patients may express greater levels of satisfaction with the care they got when they feel understood by their medical staff. Health disparities are inequalities in health caused by social, economic, and environmental factors that make it harder for some groups of individuals to maintain good health. By providing resources based on need, health equality aims to diminish and finally eradicate health inequities. Cultural sensitivity, diversity, and inclusiveness in nursing work to overcome healthcare disparities that harm the health of underserved racial and ethnic minorities (Writers, 2022).

Hinduism places a person’s needs within the broader framework of their family, community, and environment. Because of this, family members, especially older ones, can strongly influence decisions on health-related issues, including informed consent. Hindus might prefer that choices about medical care be made by their family members. Hinduism promotes family participation in the caring of one another. Hinduism places a strong emphasis on showing respect to all seniors, with children having a unique duty to their parents. Taking care of elderly relatives is seen as a familial duty the ill and the elderly. This should be considered by healthcare professionals while creating care plans, recommending nurses, nursing home care (Singh & Freeman, 2011).

References

Singh, A., & Freeman, M. (2011). The important role for nurses in supporting the Asian Hindu patient and family at end of life: providing culturally sensitive end-of-life care. Canadian oncology nursing journal = Revue canadienne de nursing oncologique, 21(1), 46–49.

Writers, S. (2022, September 26). Cultural Competence In Nursing | NurseJournal.org. NurseJournal. Retrieved October 12, 2022, from https://nursejournal.org/resources/cultural-competence-in-nursing/

Response

Hello Huda! This is an exceptional post about how nurses can effectively communicate with patients from different cultures when providing patient education. Indeed, culture and religion significantly influence perception of people about health and illness. As such, nurses should be culturally competent to appreciate the cultural differences between them and their patients to enable them communicate effectively and provided effective personalized patient care (Claeys et al., 2021). The first step for nurses to communicate effectively with patients from different cultural backgrounds is to learn about the patient’s cultural and religious practices and beliefs, particularly relating to health care. For instance, Hindus believe that diseases entail spiritual, psychological, and biological elements. As such, treatments that do not address the three aspects may not be considered effective by the patient. Therefore, a nurse should develop effective communication skills to create interpersonal relationships with the patient, which is essential in bridging the cultural difference between patient, their families, and the nurse (Markey & Okantey, 2019). In Hinduism, patient’s families have a major responsibility in caring for the patients and making health-related decisions. As such, a nurse should involve the family in health education and decision making.

References

Claeys, A., Berdai-Chaouni, S., Tricas-Sauras, S., & De Donder, L. (2021). Culturally sensitive care: Definitions, perceptions, and practices of health care professionals. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 32(5), 484-492. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043659620970625

Markey, K., & Okantey, C. (2019). Nurturing cultural competence in nurse education through a values-based learning approach. Nurse education in practice, 38, 153-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2019.06.011