Question

Write a two paragraph paper addressing the customs and the role of religion and spirituality within the orthodox Jew specifically related to health care, but also what may denote respect or lack of respect in the nursing care of an orthodox Jew. What are the nursing consideratios in the care of an orthodox Jew.

Please Use APA 7th edition citation.

Answer 1

The diversity of religion around the world creates challenges for health care providers and systems to provide culturally competent medical care. Cultural competence is the ability of health providers and organizations to deliver health care services that meet the cultural, social, and religious needs of patients and their families. Culturally competent care can improve patient quality and care outcomes. Strategies to move health professionals and systems towards these goals include providing cultural competence training and developing policies and procedures that decrease barriers to providing culturally competent patient care.

Consequences of Cultural Competence Deficiencies

If providers and health care systems are not working together to provide culturally competent care, patients may have untoward health consequences, receive poor quality care, and be dissatisfied with the care they receive. The quality of patient-health professional interactions is decreased. Lower-quality patient-health professional interactions are associated with decreased satisfaction in the healthcare provider. In fact, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and Muslims report that the quality of their care was diminished because of their ethnicity or race.

Culturally Competent Medical Care

Patient's beliefs, behaviors, and values are shaped by factors such as ethnicity, gender, language, mental ability, nationality, occupation, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. Cultural competence is the provider and systems able to understand and integrate cultural intelligence into the delivery of healthcare. The goal of providing culturally competent health care services is to provide consistent quality of care to every patient, regardless of their cultural, ethnic, racial, or religious background.

Strategies for improving cultural competence in individuals and systems include:

• Encouraging family to participate in healthcare decision making
• Incorporating culture-specific values into health promotion
• Providing cultural awareness training
• Providing an environment that allows traditional healers
• Providing interpreter services
• Recruiting minority staff

Religion and Healthcare

Religion and spirituality are important factors in the majority of patients seeking care. Unfortunately, health providers may not take religious beliefs into account when they are dealing with difficult medical decisions for patients and their families.

In the history of man, religious leaders and health providers were often the same. Only within recent times has medicine taken on a scientific approach that has resulted in a separation between medicine and religion.

The challenge for health professionals is in understanding that patients often turn to their religious and spiritual beliefs when making medical decisions. Religion and spirituality can impact decisions regarding diet, medicines based on animal products, modesty, and the preferred gender of their health providers. Some religions have strict prayer times that may interfere with medical treatment.

Spirituality and religion often provide a sense of security and social structure and those beliefs can be a strong coping mechanism through trying times. Being an active member of a close-knit religious community can provide structure, support and sense of acceptance, all of which are beneficial to mental health.

General Principles for Practice based om jew

• Cultural humility and awareness of the values, beliefs,
  customs, and norms that shape the patient and family
  perspective of the clinical experience are essential for a
  positive and collaborative relationship.
• Bidirectional sensitive communication when the patient"s
  family is large and involved is central to providing
  family-centered care.
• The patient"s personal narrative contributes to the meaning
  they ascribe to their experience of illness and their approach
  to the end of life.
• Clinical facts are necessary, but they are not the only
  information needed to understand and support the
  decisions the patient and family make.
• When working with patients and families from cultural or
  faith-based minority groups, it is crucial that caregivers
  acknowledge the differences in beliefs and values about
  what constitutes adaptive coping with serious illnesses and
  the ideals in end-of-life care.
• Respectful inquiry can inform the health care professionals
  about the fundamental beliefs and values of patients who
  come from different cultural or faith-based traditions than
  their own.

Jew who adheres faithfully to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism as evidenced chiefly by a devotion to and study of the Torah, daily synagogue attendance if possible, and strict observance of the Sabbath, religious festivals, holy days, and the dietary laws.

Jews take care of their patients by

HYGIENE - Observant Jews wash each hand 3 times on waking. They would also wish to wash their hands before a meal which includes bread. PRAYER Traditionally a Jew prays three times each day - morning, afternoon and evening. A blessing is also said before and after eating.