Other cultural perceptions may impact the way in which illness is perceived and, thus, change the individuals' treatment-seeking behavior (Taylor et al., 2008). For example, some cultures simply do not believe in certain types of illness, like mental illness. If a culture does not perceive a type of illness to exist, people within the culture are unlikely to seek treatment. A care plan should be aware of these cultural barriers and be aware of unacknowledged health problems. The care plan should incorporate, when possible an explanation of these illnesses in a manner that is not in conflict with cultural beliefs, such as explaining mental illness in the context of its physical manifestation.
A nursing care plan should also incorporate long-term development, such as education for the nurses and the patients. By virtue of being in a minority group, some cultural populations may not be aware of the resources available to them or have less knowledge about self-care and treatment options (Walsh, 2004). By educating the patients,...
ANA Cultural Diversity Position CARE ACROSS CULTURES ANA's Position on Cultural Diversity of Nursing Practice Position Statement In its official position statement, the American Nurses Association recognizes the importance of cultural diversity in all levels of nursing practice (ANA Board of Directors, 2011). Approaches to the practice will not be effective if the indigenous and diverse cultural health and nursing needs are not addressed and met. This is today's reality for all nurses, whether
Madeleine Leineger's Cultural Care Theory Theories are made of interrelated ideas that systematically give a systematic view about a certain phenomenon (an event or fact that is observable) that can, then, be predicted, and explained. Theories entail definitions, concepts, propositionspropositions, and models. Theories are created on the basis of assumptions. There are two ways in which theories are derived; inductive and deductive reasoning. The theory of nursing is meant to describe,
Cultural Diversity and Nursing Using Leininger Model The concept of trans-cultural nursing came from Leininger and the principal goal was put as being to provide culturally specific care. The difficulties of this can be understood only when an individual understands the concepts behind 'culture, cultural values, culturally diverse nursing care, ethnocentrism, race and ethnography'. (The Basic Concepts of Trans-cultural Nursing) The definition given by Leininger was "A humanistic and scientific area
Cultural Competence Nursing, like any of the fields within the medical professions, requires a wide-ranging set of skills. Some of these can be seen as purely technical, such as knowing how to triage a patient coming into an emergency department or how to ensure that anti-infection and anti-contagion processes are being followed. In addition to these skills, nurses must also be able to connect to their patients on a personal level,
Both sets of parents in the Hispanic-American and African-American families were overweight, which they did not see as a problem for them: they said that their parents also had 'meat on their bones.' I connected this with the attitudes of my own grandparents. While not overweight, they were inclined to see chubbiness in children as cute, particularly given the poverty and hunger in which they had grown up. This
Cultural Diversity Although I believe that I have critically met the objectives for a master's degree in working in many ways (particularly academically), I can honestly state that the area in which I progressed the most was in dealing with cultural diversity. Prior to entering this program, I had extremely limited experience dealing with cultural diversity, especially in the workplace. Despite working as a nurse for the past 16 years,
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