Culture Diversity Assignment | Healthcare Assignment
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Culture and Diversity: Cultural Competence in Health Care 1CULTURE AND DIVERSITY: CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN HEALTH CARENameCourse: Professor’s NameInstitutionCityDate
Culture and Diversity: Cultural Competence in Health Care 2Culture and Diversity: Cultural Competence in Health CareT. 2 A Non-English speaking female immigrants who is recently married and practices a different religion to your ownIntroduction Diversity defines how different we all are, we are all different in terms of background, language,religion and in many other ways. Culture plays a vital role in shaping every individual’s health-related beliefs, values, and behavior. Our difference makes us unique in one way or another andit is important that we accept each other and appreciate the fact that we are different. Differentpeople have different values and privileges, and before we judge others we need to know that weare also different in many ways, and we have different values and privileges. In the healthfacility, there are many patients who come for checkups and treatments, and they come fromdifferent cultures, and it is the responsibilities of the health officers/ doctors/nurses to make surethat they understand them. We should treat and care for all patients in an understanding andrespectable way irrespective of their cultural background. This means that we should try to putourselves in the position of the patients who are not culturally competent and understand theirstruggles and challenges they are facing especially in the healthcare facility.As health officers, it is vital that we are culturally competent in our expertise to make sure thatall patients are cared for despite their difference because at the end of the day we are all humanand deserve to be treated right. Being competent culturally requires personal attributes,knowledge, and skills and being intercultural competent can be taught. (Rassool, 2014). Thereare factors that can interfere with the levels of intercultural competence like the personalityfactors which include, good sense of self, having ideas and recognition of amenities with beliefsand values of different cultures, display sensitivity in relation to various cultures, being aware oftheir social norms and communicating in an understandable language to the diverse groups.
Culture and Diversity: Cultural Competence in Health Care 3Cultural and religious practices and beliefs can highly affect an individual health and wellbeing(Kronenfeld, 2016). A patient who for example, is non-English speaker female immigrant who ismarried and practices a different religion from that of the health officer will need a culturallycompetent doctor to attend to them. Such patients find a hard time at the health facilities firstbecause of the language barrier, second because of religious beliefs and practices and thirdbecause of traditions. The health officer should be competent enough to be able to assist suchkind of patient to get the required medication and treatment (O'Toole, 2012). Depending on thepatient's background, for example, the above-mentioned patient, her religious beliefs can hinderher from getting treatment if she is health illiterate. Most immigrants especially those who comefrom the Muslim religion do not understand English, most of them never go to hospitals and theyrefer hospitals to be for those who are very ill or the rich, and their religion and beliefs somehowhinder them from getting medical attention (Spector, 2000). These immigrants find a hard time atthe medical facilities because they are health illiterate and barely know or understand otherlanguages like English for example.The doctors have to be culturally competent to help such kind of patients and this involvesawareness and understanding of the Islamic faith and Islamic beliefs (Marsh, 2014). Healthpractitioners should be conversant with the implication of their spiritual and cultural values forclinic care. The fact that Muslim women are very private and conserved, it is, therefore, thenurses’ responsibility to be aware of the privacy and modesty, appropriate use of touch, dietaryand medication use. Health practitioners need to be well trained and educated to curb thesebarriers for a better health care for every individual. Health literacy is very important and it isonly through communication that information can be well understood (McFarland, & In Wehbe-Alamah, 2015). Well trained nursed who are cultural competent have an easy time dealing withdiverse patient and they are able to educate them in order to be health literate, for them to
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