Culture In Nursing DQ 9 Student Reply Vanessa Camano

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Respecting cultural needs

Health care is important for all patients and it is important to ensure that any disparities that may exist have been done away with. Culture is an important part of one’s identity, there is need to respect the beliefs, and language of others and this is not a basis for denying one care. In the US, about 37 million people speak a native language as their first language. Language barriers in health care may lead to patient dissatisfaction, poor comprehension, adherence, and lower quality of care. Moreover, lack of cultural competence may lead to patient dissatisfaction.

There are a number of guidelines from professional organizations, which may help promote cultural competence. A number of professional organizations representing an appreciable portion of health professionals have played an active role in promoting culturally competent practices through policies, research and training efforts. The American Medical Association provides information and resources on policies, publications and training materials. One of the most comprehensive guidelines, however, is the one developed by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, which provides curriculum material to teach cultural competence to family medicine and other health care professionals (Instiutute, 2020).

The guidelines focus on a number of areas first being creation of awareness of the influences that sociocultural factors have on patients, clinicians and the clinical relationship. Second is the willingness to make clinical settings more accessible to patients and acceptance of the health care professionals of their responsibility to understand the cultural aspects of health and illness. Moreover, another key consideration is the respect and tolerance for cultural differences and the recognition of personal biases against people of different cultures.

Despite there being guidelines that various health care professionals may use, there are accreditation standards, which are an important tool in improving cultural competence of all professionals. This can be seen from what the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) has done in mandating higher standards for curriculum material on cultural competence. This has led to medical schools having to provide students with the skills to understand how people of diverse cultures perceive certain illnesses and respond to the various diseases.

 
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