NR 503 Week 5 Discussion: Open Forum Discussion
NR 503 Week 5
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You can use this time to have a non-structured conversation from the Podcast and web site links below. Provide one fact or element from the web site exploration that applies to this module’s topic of populations as risk. Everyone should review the AETCMC Self-Assessment link:.
Podcast
Kaiser: Beyond Health Care: The Role of Social Determinants in Promoting Health and Health Equity. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Web Site Links:
Important self-assessment: Self-assessment (culture and attitudes) (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
National CLAS Standards (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
New CLAS Report and Toolkit from OMH (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
HHS Providing Enhanced Resources: Cultural Competency Training (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
ANSWER
Prof and class,
The topic of cultural awareness and cultural competency is something that is stressed repeatedly for healthcare providers. Considering current events this topic should be taught to the entire world. Cultural tolerance, understanding, and cultural respect need to be incorporated into professional situations and into personal situations as well. The CLAS goal is to improve healthcare providers cultural competency skills to improve the care of our culturally diverse nation (AETC-NMC | Self-Assessment, 2019). This requires that each provider be aware of their own cultural knowledge and beliefs. The provider can then continue to gain the skills necessary to be able to provide knowledgeable, respectful, high quality care to a culturally diverse population. CLAS has cultural competency tests, learning tools, and training aides to assist in this process. I was interested to learn that there is a need for culture training on patients with a diagnosis of HIV and AIDS as well as for patients from the LGBTQ populations. Even in the year 2020 there is still a lack of cultural tolerance and understanding.
The CLAS standards aim for providers to care for patients in an “effective, equitable, understandable and respectful quality care and services that are responsive to diverse cultural health beliefs and practices” (National CLAS Standards - The Office of Minority Health, n.d.). Healthcare providers must practice CLAS standards to advance health equity and keep caring and compassion universal. Advanced practices nurses must have cultural awareness and be culturally competent in order provide safe, high-quality, holistic patient care regardless of a patient’s culture, cultural beliefs, values, or personal preferences. Health care providers must individualize care and be cognizant of each patients’ cultural beliefs. The key to progressing healthcare to a culturally competent state is by improving health equity and cultural understanding at every point of care, one patient at a time (National CLAS Standards - The Office of Minority Health, n.d.).
AETC-NMC | Self-Assessment. (2019). Aetcnmc.Org. https://www.aetcnmc.org/self-assessment.html
National CLAS Standards - The Office of Minority Health. (n.d.). Www.Minorityhealth.Hhs.Gov. https://www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlid=53 [Show Less]