Cultural Influences in Healthcare: A Gibbs Model Reflection Report

This report delves into the profound influence of culture within healthcare settings, employing the Gibbs model for a reflective analysis. The introduction defines culture and its impact on health perceptions, illness beliefs, and treatment preferences, highlighting the interplay between healthcare professionals and patients. The main body utilizes the Gibbs model to describe personal experiences, explore feelings about cultural impacts, evaluate the positive and negative aspects of cultural influence, and analyze its effects on healthcare service delivery. Specific examples, such as religious beliefs affecting medication choices, are examined. The conclusion emphasizes the need to address cultural diversity and communication gaps to ensure quality healthcare, and the report proposes SMART goals to mitigate negative cultural impacts, promoting effective and equitable healthcare practices.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Gibbs model............................................................................................................................3
SMART goals.........................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Culture is defined as the norms, ethics, and various motivation that usually associated with
the pattern of idea, customs, and behaviour that is usually shared by particular social group or
communities. It is usually involving in nature and create a scope of social group and community
with the various religious factor. In addition, the culture may show their influence in the health
care settings (Rodham and et. al., 2020). It usually affects the perception of health, illness, and
death, where they also create believe about the causes of disease approaches that is well focus on
the health promotion. In addition to this, pain is usually experienced and show their expression in
such a way where patient and the type of treatment patient prefers. The both health professional
and patient are usually influenced by their various cultures (Bank and et. al., 2018). In addition,
the health care system is usually providing a scope by the main stream of believe which is well
related with the various pattern and association which may play vital role in order to develop a
factor regards with the perspective towards the people's perception and perspective towards any
patient. Therefore, it is well known that the speed of culture is usually evolving day-to-day
where the groups are migrated and incorporated with the component and element of new culture
that may have various believes and norms, believes and norms are usually create barrier for
providing quality of health within the health care sector. In this report, the major discussion is
based on the culture on the account of health care setting in the form of reflection by using the
Gibbs model. Therefore, the proper smart goals are used to be analysed in order to eradicate the
influences that occur by culture within the health care settings (Degeling and et. al., 2021).
MAIN BODY
Gibbs model
Description: I used to work within the health care setting from the last years. It is useful in order
to create and knowledge regards with the performances and activities that is held within the
health care settings. There is various factor which influence the working and function within the
health care setting. The health and social care sector are usually helpful in order to assist the
patient who is facing the serious issues regards with the health complications and consequences.
Therefore, the other factor which is related with the code of conduct, breaching of privacy and
many more are well related with the health care. In addition to this, there is another factor which
also contributed within the health care that is culture, I used to analyze various impact that occur

due to the culture among the health care delivery within the health care setting (Fam and et. al.,
2018). The culture is usually consisting of knowledge believe, norms, religious factor and many
more that is show their presence inside the human behavior. While providing care to such type of
patient, the major complications which arises is that the person are usually focus on their
believes. So, that it influences the proper health outcome among the individual (MacCallum and
et. al., 2018). For example, Islamic cultural individual is refused to take medication which is
made up of alcohol. In addition, the major aspect which is followed with in the providing quality
of health and the hindrance are occur due to the cultural aspect that prevent the individual to get
the alcohol-based medication and management which is prescribed by health care professionals
to the patient. Therefore, the cultural believes are usually reduce the efficiency of health care
services among the individual who is believing in the cultural aspect and refusing the medication
and management which is well provided by the healthcare practitioner to the patient in order to
overcome from chronic situation. These all aspect are showing a contribution towards the factor
that is arise due to the influence of culture in the health care setting. I also face some experience
in the health care settings while providing services to the patient (Gibbs and et. al., 2019).
Feeling: My feeling towards the impact of culture on health are usually provide values based
dimensional perspective. I usually prefer that the health is a cultural concept because the culture
frame and shape. The individual perspective towards the world and their experience is also show
their collaboration with the determinant of health and disease where culture is used to define
various ways. It usually focuses on the patient and health care provider that they have a
significant view regards with the health and disease. In my perspective, it is also of questionable
aspect where the patient and health care providers are usually believed about the causes of
disease (Harris and et. al., 2018). It is better to understand with the help of example, signify that
some patients are unaware of germ theory and may instead believe in fatalism. The focus on the
evil spiritual that they compromise the health of the individual and make the body rest and they
does not believe in the responsible causes of the death such as tetanus, cancer, and many more.
Therefore, the believe that the god or the cultural factor influence the death of the individual due
to their bad behavior. It is also experienced by me and some of the cases that the persistence
believes on the cultural aspect make refusion of treatment and diagnosis. I believe that they
cannot change the course of event instead they can only accept the consequences that occur with

the cultural belief and norms that force them to avoid the treatment and meet the death (Klein
and et. al., 2018).
Evaluation: I have evaluated that there was something good and bad about the experience. Here,
I feel that people are focusing on their culture which includes their family and community
release and health believes. This is highly effective and can enable them to perform them well to
get proper medication and management. This have also some impact on the delivery of health
care services where health belief creates high impact on their receiving health care services
(Hales and et. al., 2020). There are large number of populations who don't like to get proper
medication and treatment. They believe that they need to face that difficult due to it is the
decision of their God. They also believe that they should not get any type of external medication
and treatment for their disease that they will get self better and improve in health, this can have
high impact on delivery of healthcare services more effectively. I have also analyse that religion
have also high impact on delivery of health social care services and their religion can create
difficulty regarding any type of health care services. Some people don't like to get health care
services from other religions which can create a barrier in getting typical treatment. There are
also some religions belief who don't like to consume some certain foods which are restricted in
their religion but due to dietary preferences there is need to take them in their nutritional plan for
their proper medication and treatment (Jehan and et. al., 2020). This can help the to provide
better improvement in their health. I have also evaluated that family and community which are
the one of the main factors in the culture can demonstrate the understanding about the situation
to get administrator about a health care services which can be helpful in getting proper treatment.
I have also evaluated that health belief have an impact where people includes that they should
have low pain tolerance in compared to another ethnicity. Here, they have an expectation about
physical recovery than receiving a prescription (O'Reilly and et. al., 2018). I have evaluated that
there are lot of faith in prescription medication and modern treatment where people more likely
to take medication but after getting some improvement they stop taking it prematurely, Here, I
have observed that cultural believe have high impact on delivery of health and social care
services which create a positive as well as a negative impact, There are a specifically negative
impact on quality of healthcare services due to inclusion of culture.
Analysis: I have analysed that there is high impact of culture on health and social care services.
This create positive as well as negative impact on delivery of health social care services to the

large population. There is high influence of culture on health where health and social care
professional and patient. It can influence with the cultural perspective. They have some
specification where health-related preferences and perception are highly affecting and create
impact on health and social care service delivery quality (Salle and et. al., 2020). I have also
analysed how culture can influence healthcare at every level. I have can also include interaction
and communication gap in doctors, nurses and health care service user. This can create high
impact on service delivery. Here, healthcare professionals also need to have a proper
communication with service user which can enable them to deliver quality of care services. I
have also analyzed those cultural differences create impact on communication where patient and
healthcare professional have a communication gap which create a negative impact on quality of
healthcare service delivery. I have also observed that literacy and language barrier are also
effective in the poor communication within healthcare professional and patient from a different
culture. This creates a communication gap which can hurt the informed decision about health
care services (Calma and et. al., 2019). This creates difficulty in providing proper health care
services to patient at the correct time. This can lead to create on impact on patient health I have
also analyse that culture has also high impact on providing health care services which can be
influenced due to belief of patient on healthcare professional in delivery of health care services
and selfcare. This can also impact on health choicesm, specific therapy and compliance which
can include the willingness of healthcare professionals recommendation to improve health
(Boratto and et. al., 2021).
Conclusion: Through the situation, I have learnt that culture have high impact on delivery of
health care services which can lead to create a negative impact specification on service quality of
healthcare services. This can create high differences due to the inclusion of culture while getting
health care services. This include a negative impact on the quality of service delivery due to the
inclusion of culture with can also lead to create cultural diversity. There are large populations
with different cultures and communication gap due to coming from a different cultures. This
create difficulty getting the medication and proper treatment (Almotiri and et. al., 2021). This
also creates impact on informed consent about proper healthcare service delivery. This can have
high impact on the quality of healthcare service. There is also need to take care that there should
not be any type of impact on quality-of-service delivery. Due to the inclusion of culture,
healthcare professionals perform their role effectively without creating any type of

discrimination. Due to culture or any type of difference while delivering proper health care
services, I have concluded that there are various negative impact of culture on healthcare service
delivery. This may include positive and negative where specifically it led to creating negative
impact. I have concluded that culture which includes different factor like health belief which
have also negative impact on quality-of-service delivery. I have also concluded that there is high
difference of healthcare service quality due to cultural inclusion. This may develop some
negative perspectives about the implementation of culture where proper medication and
treatment have some restrictions due to cultural impact. Many people don't like to consume
alcohol-based medication and treatment due to they are culture or not consuming alcohol. These
are some of the restrictions which can create high negative impact on delivery of health and
social care services (Koukpaki and et. al., 2020).
Action plan:
SMART goals
CONCLUSION

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