University:
Liberty University
Course:
BIOM 500 | Introduction to Biomedical Sciences
Academic year:

2024
Views:

429

Pages:

6
Author:

Sheha A.

Advantages of Culturally Competent Care Helps to provide effective nursing care within the cultural context of their patients. It ensures patient satisfaction and positive health outcomes. Culturally competent care shows that respect and concern for patients. Patients are confident that they are being cared for and their cultural preferences addressed. This provides patients with a sense of security. Nursing Strategies to provide Culturally Competent Care A nurse should aware of her own cultural values and practices and understand how they may differ from other cultures. She should also recognize her own biases and prejudices towards other cultures and consider how they may affect the care they provide. The nurse should pose open-ended questions to patients and their family so as to gain more information about their cultural beliefs and values related to health. Health: The nurse should make an effort to include beliefs and practices of various cultures into nursing care. She should be familiar with appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication patterns such as silence, touch, eye-to-eye contact, distance and space within the cultural groups and use them appropriately while communicating with the patient. Culture and its impact on health and disease: Human beings are social animals with an inherent desire to conform to socially accepted norms and values over a period of time. Some of these norms became standards that all members of the community are expected to adhere to. Deviance from these standards is considered wrong or abnormal. Many of these norms have no scientific basis while some of them actually promote health consequences.