NR 394 Week 1 Discussion, Models of Transcultural Nursing
People are seldom consciously aware that culture influences their world view and interaction
... [Show More] with others” ((Andrews & Boyle, 2016, p. 34). I answered 6 yeses and 4 nos in my self-transcultural self assessment skill. Two of my no answers are:
Rarely do I reflect on how my own identify impacts how my transcultural patients perceive me: No
I step out of my comfort zone to assess, understand, and deal with my own prejudices: No
I tried to be culturally sensitive. But sometimes I do see my patients frustrated at times when their needs are not met the way they wanted it. I had that experience last two weeks with a patient of Muslim heritage. “Behavior, biases, and attitudes of health care providers contribute to health care disparities, patient dissatisfaction, and poor patient outcomes” (Darnell and Hickson, 2015).
Whenever he puts on the bathroom call light and I answered, he quickly gets up, refuse assistance and says he is ok. But looking at him, you would tell that he needed something. Then I began to wander, why will he call and then refuse my assistance. I never knew he prefers same sex to care for him according to his culture. Communication was a problem too; he has global aphasia secondary to CVA and language barrier. He did that two times in the shift. So I began do my research, may be culture has something to do with it. From my research, I realize that he would prefer care from a male staff. So the next time I had him on my team, I requested for a male nursing assistance and that made a huge difference. All his needs were met and he appears satisfied.
To answer yeses to my nos in the next few weeks, I will keep on researching and educating myself on different cultural beliefs. I need self-awareness and good cultural assessment of my patient. I need to avoid stereotyping and become aware of my own biases. I need to work on my communication skill to help patient understand the plan of care. Like making sure I provide an interpreter for my non English-speaking patient. An interpreter may go further than simple translation to give cultural meaning to what is being communicated (Chamberlain College of Nursing, 2018). I will keep on attending in-service provided in my facility.
References
Andrews, M. M., & Boyle, J. S. (2016). Transcultural concepts in nursing care (7th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
Chamberlain College of Nursing. (2018). NR-394 week 1: Transcultural nursing [Online lesson]. Downer Grove. IL: Adtalem
Darnell, l. k. and Hickson, S. V. (2015). Cultural competent patient-centered Nursing Care. Retrieved from https://www-sciencedirect-com.chamberlainuniversity.idm.oclc.org [Show Less]