Question

Scenario: You are a nurse who has been working with a certain population for many years who share similar health beliefs and behaviors. Recently you were invited to speak to a professional group in the community to share what you have learned over the years. The professionals are from the hospital, long-term care, home health, and a primary care clinic, and they have asked you to share your experiences to provide culturally appropriate care.

1. Identify and describe a population that you encounter in your practice.
2. Describe how two of the population's health beliefs and two of the population's health behaviors are impacted by their culture.
3. Explain how an understanding of this population may help support culturally inclusive healthcare environments through communication and collaboration.
4. Explain how an understanding of this population's culture contributes to the nursing care you give, how that nursing care is received, and how this may impact patient outcomes.

Answer 1

Culture, generational practices and social economic factors rely on the health practitioners and behaviors enormously. Each character differs from culture to culture.

For example, early infancy and birth related issues

Postpartum treatment and care is intensively important. In few culture, family members deal with entire procedure like visiting time,pediatric process etc.

In few hospitals respecting their culture they allow them for a longer visiting time so that family takes care of the procedures.

But in few culture , to prevent any microbial contamination nurses and doctors take care of the mother and baby entirely with reduced visiting time.

Next example , folk illness

It is a culture specific illness that is caused by psychiatric and physical characteristics. Not all treatments for this is curable. Diseases like GI discomfort, eye defects , panic attack are worsened in this condition. It can be benign or malignant depending on the health outcomes that vary from person to person.

Next example, pain

Relief to pain and post analgesic symptoms vary from patient to patient particularly culture to culture. Few recover from pain immediately and for other culture , analgesic proportions may be different which affect the time taken to relieve from pain. The post treatment and care is done by nurse , who need to be conscious and specific to the patient.

All these process are majorly practicesed by nursing and health care professionals. So they adapt to the particular culture and they do respect it. Wide variety of practices and cultural behaviors are witnessed by many nurses and hence it vary from each. Nurses adapt to the changes from patient to patient and follow their practices correctly. They need to be very specific with the patient.