Culturally Competent Nursing
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Culturally Competent Nursing
Introduction
Cultural competence in nursing means the ability to give to offer effective care by the health care providers and organizations. A competent cultural practitioner should be able to deliver care services to the patient, regardless of cultural diversity. A competent cultural nurse is more is evaluable from a different perspective and can offer the best information about the cultural views from health care platforms. An African American work colleague went through a culturally based interview with one of the media personalities. The interview was to open some ideas on some of the factors affecting the nursing practice environment in the workspace. Articulately, the interview was a metric and assessment that elaborated on the needs of cultural, ethical recognition to enhance the healthcare system. The specialty of the interviewer was clinical nursing, who has been in the field of practicing for more than three years. Cultural competency in nursing should be the cornerstones of providing supper car3e to all people despite the fact that they emerge from disparate culture.
Cultural Assessment- Purnell Model for Cultural Competence
Larry D. Purnell developed the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence evaluation, considering the immediate factors that affect the culture of an individual. The purpose of its framework is to apply the ethnographic concept to encourage awareness of culture and develop a competent relationship to the healthcare system.
Overview/Heritage
The interviewer was from African American culture, and she was a vegetarian who understands more about vegetable meals. The heritage of the interviewer was purely African American, and she is not racist regardless of being white.
Communication
She is able to speak in both Native American English and Latin American language. She was raised up with her grandmother, who is a Latin American. Her communication shows that cha can interact with more cultures that are different during the practice.
Family Roles and Organization
Her grandmother was a mental doctor, and after she retired, she registered a small community clinic whereby the work colleague has been working during his off time. Most of the patients in the Grandmother’s clinic were elderly patients. Ashe had learned a good experience form intervention of old people.
Workforce Issues
She is competent and likes teamwork. Besides, she has good problem-solving skills from all perspectives. She observes the ethical and policies of work. Her etiquette if of high dignity and communicates professionally and fluently with English as her second language.
Biocultural Ecology
My work colleague is hailed from the African American Biocultural, and her race is black. She belongs to the minority group of black, which belongs to her father, but the mother is Latin American. She practices Buddhism, but the father is Christian (Sagar, 2014). The work colleague is widely diversified in cultural practice.
High-Risk Behavior
She does not use alcohol substance, but she goes for holidays. Consequently, most of her friends use alcohol. She party with them but not in terms of taking alcoholic drinks. She has relatives who also take alcohol, but she is not influenced.
Nutrition
She is not married and she like wearing summer dresses. She listens to rock music and greets visitors with respect. She also likes pizzas sandwiched with vegetables only (Sagar, 2014). The nurse was diversified in nutrition. African Americans like seasoning foods.
Pregnancy and Childbearing
Her beliefs about pregnancy are that she respects it as a blessing, and expectant mothers should be behaving priorities in treatment. According to her traditional practice, she supports pregnancy that any other part of the healing environment.
Death and Rituals
She respects the opinions of the clients towards death. She is vibrant to support the cultural arrangements of the existing cultural opinions about death. She is also unafraid of death matters and discussion about the deaths’ occasions conceding death such burial ceremonies.
Spiritualty
She is prayerful with all Buddhism knowledge practice that supports other religions and cultural practices. She has knowledge about Christianity and Islamic religions (Sagar, 2014). She recognizes all the other religious opinions and respects every patient’s religious requirements.
Health Care Practices
She is competent in her professional practice in health care, and as a clinical nurse; she operates in different divisions and attend intervention with multiple patients. She also spends more hours on the job to ensure she leaves every patient satisfied.
Healthcare Practitioner
She is competent and determined to offer the best health care to the patients regardless of the varying opinions. Her relationship with the patient is ultimately good, and she works well with the team (Sagar, 2014). The model symbolizes the importance of features in nursing practice.
Transcultural Health Care
Transcultural health care is a requirement for nursing attention that shows that a practitioner must be ready to face a diverse culture in practice. The work colleague was prepared to understand personal backgrounds during the intervention (Giger & Haddad, 2020). She understands the traditions and customers of the African American and Latin America cultures. She was able to provide unique perspectives on the patient’s implications for treatment. Caring requires a readiness to face multiple people with various cultural believes and practices. Additionally, her professional aspect shows that nursing practice needs a strong interaction concept of culture. Based on the theories of culture, the nurse was cognitively prepared to share multiple cultural with the patient at all nursing processes. Moreover, she was competent to focus on the global cultures for a reasonable comparison.
Furthermore, she was competent to offer appropriate and suitable care based on multicultural experience. She also considered the collaboration of transcultural nursing to pioneer a substantial practice focusing on values of care, benefits of the practice that belonged to the same or different cultures. The nurse focused well on the global perspective of nursing practice to ensure she meets all the needs in multicultural development in practice (Giger & Haddad, 2020). The working coordination of the work colleague shows the nurse training encompassed international and transcultural discipline. The interviewer includes learning cultural organizations in nursing to understand the diversity of transcultural aspects in health care systems (Giger & Haddad, 2020). Therefore, transcultural nursing addresses the cultural concept of patients from different perspectives or cross-cultural backgrounds.
Implications of Health Care Practice
Health care facilities provide services to different cultural patients, and transcultural nursing has been building an appropriate system that ensures a positive outcome. Transcultural nursing has been creating the ability to connect people of a different culture in the healing environment. Health care has also improved because of transcultural development (Giger & Haddad, 2020). Different nursing specialties breaks common interaction barrier between patient and nurse, but transcultural practices help healthcare practitioners to attain the maximum network among people with different cultural perspectives (Sagar, 2014). Transcultural practice support population and health care facilities increase the quality and safety of the patients based on diversified cultural care. Health care continues educating people about different cultures and reduces the face of language (Giger & Haddad, 2020). Therefore, transcultural nursing has been caring, supporting, and educating people based on multicultural perspectives hence ensuring positive outcomes.
Conclusion
Application of Purnell Model for Cultural Competence evaluation evaluates practice in healthcare facilities. The transcultural practice is a guarantee of the reediness and potential availability of health care workers to face cultural aspects during practicing. A culturally competent nurse should observe the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence evaluation to achieve the required multicultural development in health care facilities. Transcultural practice in nursing observes important factors of developing the health care systems and facilities. Transcultural nursing observes different aspects during practice and treats the entire patient equally regardless of heritage backgrounds.
Giger, J. N., & Haddad, L. (2020). Transcultural Nursing: Assessment and Intervention. Amsterdam: Elsevie
Sagar, P. L. (2014). Transcultural nursing education strategies. New York, NY : Springer Publishing Company, LLC