After taking the self-assessment survey for quality and culture, I would like to improve and understand how cultural competence can have a real impact on clinical outcomes. Taking from some of the questions I answered wrong, it make me wants to be cultural competent. There are a few questions I am surprised and shocked, that I answered them incorrectly. I do understand that with training, I will start to gain cultural competence but it will take consistent individual practice on my part to develop and maintain individual cultural competence. Cultural competence can lead to, health literacy, health equity, and fewer diagnostic errors, which might help the patient expand their choices and access high quality medical providers because patient
In “The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down,” Anne Fadiman provides us with her book about two different cultural worlds and how they collide. 1. Quag Dab Peg in Hmong culture is caused by a bad spirit (dab’s). Hmong’s believe dab’s steal souls and cause sick illnesses.
In “Avatars, Scarlet ‘A’s, and Adultery in the Technological Age” by an Assistant Professor of Law Sandi S. Varnado explore the new increasing twist on the age-old issue of adultery and online infidelity by using technology that causes many divorces between marriages. Nowadays people have love affairs using the Internet, specifically to communicate with others. According to Varnado, she reports that in December 2012 a survey revealed that 81% of all adults in the United States use the Internet, which has impacted our society in both positive and negative ways (372). Varnado also emphasizes that given the appearance and prevalence of online sexual satisfaction, it is not difficult to imagine that many Internet users are engaging in online. When
Humans are complex and diverse beings that belong to different cultures, speak different languages, and have different perspectives on the world they live in. When cultures collide, it can be difficult to empathize and respect the differences that exist. Cultural sensitivity is, “The ability to be appropriately responsive to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of groups of people that share a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic or cultural heritage” (Arnold & Boggs, 2016, p. 119). Cultural sensitivity and effective communication, especially in the health care setting, are essential to bridging cultures and creating a common understanding.
Tenzin Dasel Professor Melissa Kosinski Collins Brandeis Stem Posse 11 June 5, 2018 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman Cultural diversity is becoming increasingly important in the workplace. This is particularly true in the medical field facing demographic shifts in the patients served and their families. The clash between western medicine and non-American culture becomes persistent as immigrants increase and so the significance of a mutual understanding of culture and medicine between a doctor and patient becomes more obvious. Anne Fadiman, in “The Spirit catches you and you fall down” intersperses anecdotes and uses precise writing to make her audience understand the significance of cultural sensitivity and the role
Some people believe students should not work in fast-food chain because they can get distracted by working and the job may not provide them with skilled-based opportunities. In his essay, Amitai Etzioni, points out the bad influence fast-food chains, such as MacDonald’s, have on the students they employ. He thinks that working in fast-food chains can contribute to academic problems. The debate over whether or not students should work during school especially in fast food chain is currently a very controversial topic. I personally support Amitai Etzioni’s idea that working in fast food chains can negatively impact students’ academic careers.
In the article Pietro Boselli hit the headlines the same week as Gemma Laird. Boselli was an advanced math teacher from Italy who taught undergraduate He became famous when one of his student googled him and found his modeling photos and once it went viral he became the sexiest math teacher. Bates tries to compare the two articles for comparisons with no evidence to support. Yes, Boselli was a teacher but he did not get fired because he was a model, he took a break to pursue his modelling career since he always dreamed of becoming a model since he was a
Perhaps the best first step, and simplest, in response to the lack of cultural competency is for physicians in health care settings to place greater emphasis on cultural sensitivity and awareness trainings to improve treatment for Hispanics. The emphasis on this solution is an important starting point that will help increase the effectiveness of future initiatives in health care. Emphasis on cultural sensitivity and awareness is most efficacious in resolving cultural competency because the solution is both practical and simple. By providing training programs within health care settings that specifically focus on cultural sensitivity and awareness, physicians will learn to respond effectively to their Hispanic patients’ needs that show knowledge of their cultural differences. “One-size-fits all” types of prevention and treatment models cannot be applied to Hispanic patients and expect beneficial outcomes, thus “the challenge is for physicians to move beyond their belief systems and values and expand their world views to validate how others function”
Cultural competency has the potential to reduce inequities in access to health services and improve the health status of diverse cultural
Guglielmo Marconi Decades after the Industrial Revolution in Europe, a man by the name of Guglielmo Marconi revolutionized the wireless communication and radio world. His many inventions served society in a myriad of ways. As a prestigious inventor, Marconi knew that the most beneficial inventions are measured by the rewards they receive, their impact on the world, and . For example, Marconi Company radios were part of the standard equipment of ships that many used for communication over seas.
Hi Moncy, I agree with you as you noted the increasing diversity of the nation brings opportunities and challenges to health care system, on the other side a culturally competent health care system helps to improve health outcomes and quality of care, which eliminate racial and ethnic disparities. foster advocacy for social justice and increase focus on global healthcare, the cultural competence class benefit diverse population to receive more satisfactory patient care, uplift social justice and increase global health as well cultural competency skills , make self-awareness among nursing workforce also provide an opportunity to staffing to learn and experience life from different perspectives and able to recognize each person has their own
As a healthcare provider you should give your patients the best care possible, and that can only be achieved when you are accommodating to different needs. There is no place for ethnocentrism in today's world, and healthcare
The way a person thinks about health, “whether that is our ‘philosophy’, our ‘worldview’, our ‘framework’ influences what we do as individuals in practice,” as well as how we deliver the health service. These elements allow us to think about healthcare in our own culturally acceptable way, this isn’t always an acceptable way of delivering the service to people with views different to our own. Cultural competence is an approach that aids in influencing the service and the education of healthcare professionals. (Taylor, K., & Guerin, P., 2010). Cultural competence is defined as a knowledge and understanding of cultures, histories and contemporary realities and awareness of protocols, combined with the proficiency to engage and work effectively in a cultural context congruent to the expectations of the people of that culture.
Cultural competency: Indians Culture competency is defined as one has the knowledge, the abilities and the skill to deliver care congruent with the patient’s cultural beliefs and practices (Purnell, 2013). As a nurse or a health care provider, increasing ones consciousness of culture diversity improves the possibilities for health care practitioners to provide competent care (Purnell, 2013). Nurses and all health care providers should be aware of other cultures to provide the best care that they can for that individual. Developing a relationship with diverse cultural groups involves good interpersonal skills and the application of knowledge and techniques learned from the physical, biological, and social sciences as well as the humanities (Purnell, 2013). I am choosing to select the Indian culture for my first assignment.
These practices and few of the cultural differences mentioned play a huge factor when it comes to the competent and effective health care to these individuals. The person interviewed for this cultural assessment is a fourty five-year-old Hispanic woman named Elia Navarrete who was born in Mexico. When is comes to healthcare she has certain beliefs that are normally part of their culture. Because she grew up in a village they believe in a lot of home remedies to
