Concept of Nursing

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Concept of Nursing
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Introduction
Patients in hospitals come from various cultures with different lifestyles and beliefs.
Nurses and doctors as well come from different cultures. In their training and operations, they
perceive concepts differently but are made to think the same as per the professional requirements
and the needs of the patients. Nurses must consider many factors to deliver culturally competent
healthcare. The factors include evaluating their own beliefs, values, and biases before working
with any group of patients. Nurses consider their recent stereotypes and myths concerning that of
other people, which assists in achieving their health goals and promotions without neglecting the
cultural disparity. Without introducing the learning program on educational training competence
in the institutions, it will not be easy to address the cultural competence in the nursing career.
By understanding how to identify the self-awareness impacts of nursing abilities, you can
then appreciate the respect and skills necessary to reduce the inequities that happen in health
care. Education is a must for self-awareness (Acquaviva, 2017). A successful nursing program
can assist nurses in gaining and developing a detailed understanding of the meaning of culturally
competent health care professional, how it can affect the nursing activities, cultural organization
and methodologies to involve appropriate artistic interventions. Some diseases are caused by
developmental defects that medically might be hard to treat and thus will require the educational
intervention a knowledge a nurse should possess.
Identify how culturally competent care is fundamental to the practice of nursing.
Culture can be defined as a learned and shared values; beliefs and a way of life emulated
by a particular group of people and is transited down the generations. Culture influences one’s
actions and a way one thinks. How people behave when in response to a specific illness such as
pain, anxiety, and pain are culturally described (Finkelman, 2017). The life as per the norms and

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beliefs of the culture is somehow complicated as it depends basically from the assimilation and
acculturation into the leading culture that is practiced by the majority of the people.
Moreover, acculturation can be measured using items like the spoken or written language,
the developmental country of the childhood period, the pride of the social growth and the circle
of friends an individual has (Holland, 2017). The outcomes of acculturation can be seen in the
following ways:
 Rejection – the members of a given culture are trained to retain the cultural identity and
reject the host society.
 Stereotyping – this a common belief in the society that at least there is something that is
the same for everyone in a community or a group of people.
 Assimilation – is establishing a good relationship in the host society at the expense of the
native culture.
 Cultural imposition – this is the ability to uphold one beliefs, values, and patterns of
behavior in comparison to another culture.
 Ethnocentrism – this is a kind of a conservative belief stating that one’s belief way is the
only way out and that there is no other way that can be used instead.
The delivery of healthcare involves cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills. This has
become mandatory practice due to; population diversity, complex legislation, increasing health
disparities and litigious society
Identify and discuss the relationship between cultural competency and diversity
The relationship between cultural competency and increasing diversity in nursing schools
have been discussed (Priester, et al, 2016). Cultural diversity may include the following contexts
and may not be limited to ethnicity, gender, sexual relation, religion, socio-economic class, and