Assignment on Components of Nurses Care Practices
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Assignment on Components of Nurses Care Practices
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DEVELOPING CULTURAL AWARENESSDEVELOPING CULTURAL AWARENESSName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:1
DEVELOPING CULTURAL AWARENESSIntroduction:Culturally competent nursing is one of the most important aspects of healthcare. It hasbecome one of the recent concerns in every healthcare industry of all nations as every nation hasbecome tolerable of diverse population coming from different parts of the world (Moore et al.2017 pp: 320). Along with the growth of the numbers of diverse population, it has becomeextremely important for healthcare professionals to develop skills which respect the needs of thepatients of different cultures and also providing them with care that aligns with their culturalpreferences and inhibitions. Researchers are of the opinion that cultural respect is very importantfor the reduction of health disparities (Gallagher and Polanin 2015 pp: 337). They are also of theopinion that culturally competent nursing is helpful in the improvement of the access to highquality healthcare which is in turn respectable and responsive to patient’s needs. Nurses in allthese scenarios, should respond to the changing demographics of their patients so that they canoffer culturally sensitive care (Noble et al. 2014 pp 90). This assignment will mainly highlightthe different components that nurses should incorporate in their care practices for students so thatthey provide best care for culturally diverse client. A case scenario would be taken which wouldmainly help in acting as an example bout how nurses should handle different situation whenculturally diverse patients are admitted to the wards.Case scenario:A middle aged married woman of the Islam religion was admitted to the ward after shehad a fall in her garden. She had faced a skin tear and wounds in her hand and on her head whichhad resulted in loss of large amount of blood. She was partially unconscious but was able torespond and talk feebly. She was brought here by her husband who complained about similar2
DEVELOPING CULTURAL AWARENESSsymptoms of nausea and vertigo often. The nurse in charge in the emergency department was amale healthcare member who immediately advised for blood transfusion due to loss of heavyblood. She was wearing a hijaab which needed to be removed in order to undergo the stitching ofher skin tears as well as the dressing of the wounds. It created a huge issue in the ward as manyof the activities that were conducted by me and my nurse colleague were prevented either by herhusband or also by his wife. The first issue that was noted was they complained that they couldnot allow exposure of the body of the patient in place of a male healthcare member which wasagainst the norms. Secondly another concern was that she was also not allowed to take bloodfrom any sources that are not of the same religion. Both the issues seemed to be quite disturbingfor us as it interrupted the smooth flow of the treatment which we usually conduct every day.Moreover as they were not been able to communicate in English, it was really making difficultfor us to make the patient or her husband aware of the emergency of the situation. Moreover,later they also complained that we were not respectable to them as we had talked with them witheye contact which was not liked by them. After an hour, more than 8 members of his familycame to visit in the hospital that wanted to meet their patient but were not allowed to asemergency patients are not subjected to interaction with more than one family member. All thesemade them upset stating that their feelings and emotions were not respected as they were formdifferent religion. We got very upset with the entire situation the entire episode of the handlingof the patient and his family members were frustrating to us as we were facing severalinterruptions in every arena of the assessments of her health. Importance of cultural competency:After severe criticism of the approach that we had taken for her assessments by thenursing mentor we were able to understand the mistakes we conducted in her assessments.3
DEVELOPING CULTURAL AWARENESSDifferent cultures have their own norms and traditions and the core of nursing professionhighlights the importance of respecting patients’ cultural preferences in such a way so that thecare they provide maintains autonomy, dignity and respect of culture of that patient (Long 2014pp: 475). Researchers have defined the term culture as the thoughts, communications, customs,beliefs, values, actions as well as institutions of ethnic, racial, religious or social groups. By thedevelopment of cultural competency, nurses should develop the ability to acquire specific skills,behaviors, attitudes as well as policies within the healthcare system that mainly portrays effectivework in cross cultural setting (Montenary et al. 2013 pp: 55). Researchers are of the opinion, thatnurses who are able to provide cultural competence in her practices and care to patients canensure positive health outcomes which in turn increases the patient satisfaction (Roberts et al.2014 pp: 260 ).Importance of self awareness through reflection:For ensuring cultural competency, researchers have provided many strategies whichwhen followed in a sequential manner can help nurses gather the skills that ensure safe culturallycompetent practices. The first one as stated by them is the development of self awareness andsensitivity. Each and every human being have been born and brought up in their particularsurrounding that had influences of their own cultural beliefs and values. They incorporate thesecultural preferences and inhibitions in their own practices and other activities of life whilejudging the morality of the actions they take (Diaz et al. 2015 pp: 25). Culture is learnt as well asconveyed from generation to generation by the process of socialization. Therefore researchershave also supported that it becomes the human habits to judge other’s actions in the lights of owncultural morals of rights and wrongs. These prevent healthcare professionals of not being able tojustify other’s actions which they had taken aligning with their own cultural values (Almutairi,4
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