Diversity is a key element to consider when providing patient centered care. Understanding that individuals are unique in various ways and recognizing these differences is the key to providing excellent care. Diversity can be based on various factors such as race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, social economic factors as well as physical abilities and political affiliation. As such, there are many diverse groups in America. Among these groups, Asian Americans make up the largest group.…
With the ever changing health care reform, it is important to consider what culturally diverse means. Cultural diversity in the workplace occurs when a company hires employees from a variety of backgrounds, race, gender, age, or religion. FHCC has recently opened a new facility in a neighborhood that is culturally diverse. FHCC is experiencing low patient influx due to the fact that there is a lack of cultural diversity of among the staff. Some of the factors affecting the patient influx include: a. Language barriers: Miscommunication in the healthcare sector can be life-threatening.…
I know personally as a nurse how hard it is to treat a patient that can’t communicate to me about their problems and pain because I simply don’t understand their language and they don’t understand mine. It becomes very frustrating and problematic providing the care needed by the…
Cultural competence and diversity are very important. According to Parker (2015) it builds understanding of our unique populations and helps us to develop innovative ways to reach out and care for patients. It is with a certain inevitability that the United States and its demographic move towards a more culturally diverse population. It is then imperative for health care to adjust to meet demands of the people. It starts from the top, the leaders and the managers, it moves down to the supervisors, then the rank and file accordingly.…
My name is Brandon Stepter and I am an intern with Mr. James Corbett at Centura health. He was unable to to attend the Diversity and Health Disparities Breakfast this week. I was wondering if the was a summary of the breakfast available. If so could you send me a copy so that i may disperse it to Mr. Corbett and his Health equity team. Thank you in advance for your time.…
Not understanding and coping to cultural and social variances might have substantial health concerns of ethnic groups. The ground of racial competency has arisen as a component of an organization to decrease inequalities in accessing health and getting the excellence health care. As this adaptation is rather developing, struggles to describe and to implement the ethics of cultural skills are still rising. Barriers between the US health care, providers, and patients, might affect quality and add to ethnic and racial disparity in care. One example, is the inadequacy of mixture in health care's personnel and leadership.…
“Although Spanish was the primary language of an estimated 11% of adults in the year 2000, the U.S. health care system is largely geared toward serving English speakers.” (Timmins, 2002) By having a system that is for one language, it is faced with multiple problems when people speak other languages. Even though Spanish has become increasingly more popular of a language to speak when a Hispanic is given a nurse or doctor that doesn’t speak their language can make things difficult when trying to communicate what the patient is feeling or how they are hurt. It can also create a problem of wrong information which can lead to the patient getting the wrong medication or treatment for their problem. “Research shows that language barriers contribute to inadequate patient evaluation and diagnosis, lack of appropriate and/or timely treatment, and other medical errors that compromise the safety of patients who have limited English skills and result in increased medical costs.”…
Diversity in Health Care As the ethnic and racially diverse populations of the United States continue to expand, so does the need for cultural competence. Health care providers are continually challenged to deliver care that meets the physiologic and cultural needs of the patient. In view of this fact, initiatives to increase and improve the awareness and effectiveness of cultural competency is at the forefront of health care initiatives (Purnell, 2013). Application of universally accepted approaches to culturally competent care must be adopted by all health care providers no matter what their role (Douglas, et al.,2014) The purpose of this paper is to explore how the theory, framework and domains described in the Purnell Model of Cultural…
She further states “that addressing cultural diversity goes beyond knowing the values, beliefs, practices, and customs of diverse groups, other faces of cultural diversity include "religious affiliations, language, physical size, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability (both physical and mental), political orientation, socio-economic status, occupational status and geographical location". According to US Dept of Health and Human Services, in an online Cultural Diversity CEU, culturally competent service providers must take into account the full range of factors that influence how any one individual service recipient behaves and communicates, and further indicated that the two levels of influencing factors are: overall cultural differences between racial and ethnic groups, as well as individual-level differences (based on age, education, literacy, income, gender and geographic…
Diversity means the fact that everyone is diverse. Diversity recognises and respects everyone’s differences and it welcomes and encourages the differences and variety that groups have to offer. There are different societies in health and social care so staff must value diversity and equality and they must not give favourable treatments to certain groups of people because they hold prejudices again other people. They must treat everyone in the same equal way. Care workers can actively promote equality and diversity in health and social care by treating everyone equally with the same…
When we look at our health care in Canada, we see a free and equal health care system. To a Canadian who was was born and raised here, lives in a stable middle class and is surrounded by a good environment, it is mostly true. For those people who do not relate to those things it is a much different experience with the health care system. When we look at groups of people such as the low income groups, the aboriginals, and the immigrants, we will see how inequalities to accessing health care are there. This is because of there socio-economic differences.…
In any case, these are very important issues when it comes to transcultural communications within the health care system. There are serious and sometimes fatal consequences associated with possible outcomes which are directed associated with choices made or not made based on racial and discrimination practices in healthcare. It begs the question from a patients point of view, is delaying medical care based on barriers such as someone’s race, religion, sex, age worth dyeing…
For a nurse to be competent in their nursing practice, there must be adequate communication and efficient care. When the nurse encounters a culturally diverse patient, or a patient from a different culture, there are a variety of obstacles that may impede the nurse with having adequate communication and efficient care with the patient. The purpose of this post is to review the various obstacles that can occur when the nurse and patient come from different cultures. The obstacles to review are cultural baggage, ethnocentrism, cultural imposition, prejudice, and discrimination. Then will proceed to explain what can be done to overcome the obstacles through cultural self-assessment and the five steps in providing culturally congruent nursing care (Andrews & Boyle, 2015).…
Cultural Diversity and Its Influence on Nursing Practice Cultural Diversity is a key component to quality patient centered care. The Nurse needs to be aware of their own cultural attitudes. It is also very import that as nurses we understand the patient’s cultural preferences and needs. Cultural competence is becoming more important because of the increase in cultural diversity in our country. In the United States 13% of our population was not born in this country and another 8-10million are living here without documentation.…
This is important because we have an issue with people receiving insignificant health care because there are barriers. One major barrier in health care is the communication barrier. Some physicians miss out on important information that could potentially be useful because the patient speaks a different language than the physician. In Janice's case, it could end up being a life or death situation; therefore, it is very important for health-care providers to be cultural competence.…