Assignment Week 2: Transcultural Diversity and Health Care
Assignment Week 2: Transcultural Diversity and Health Care
Review the attached Power Point presentation (attached). Once done answer the following questions.
1. In your own words and using the proper evidence-based references define transcultural diversity and Health care and discuss how both term interact and how they help in the delivery of health care to different heritages.
2. Mention and discuss at least 4 variant characteristics of culture.
A minimum of 2 evidence-based references no older than 5 years are required. A minimum of 500 words are required.
APA FORMAT
Please include at least 1 citation.
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Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
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Leininger Assumptions
- Culturally congruent care can only occur when individuals’, groups’, and communities’ patterns are known and used in meaningful ways.
- Culture care differences and similarities between professionals and clients exist in all human cultures worldwide.
- Culture conflicts, imposition practices, cultural stresses, and pain reflect the lack of professional care to provide culturally congruent care.
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
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Leininger’s Sunrise Enabler to
Discover Culture Care
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Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
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Leininger Orientational Theory Definitions
- Cultural Care Preservation or Maintenance: all is well with the patient so encourage to continue what has been done
- Cultural Care Accommodation or Negotiation: Needs some change. What is acceptable weight from the patient’s perspective
- Cultural Care Repatterning or Restructuring: Practices are deleterious to overall health and need restructured: sexually promiscuous and has not been practicing safe sex
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
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Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare Services: A culturally Competent Model of Care
- Dr. Josepha Campinha-Bacote but cannot display her model. Go to http://www.transculturalcare.net
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
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Process of Cultural Competence
- Cultural Competence is a process not an event.
- The process consist of five inter-related constructs: Cultural desire, cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural skills, and cultural encounter.
- The key and pivotal construct is cultural desire.
- There is more variation within a cultural group than across cultural groups.
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
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Process of Cultural Competence
- There is a direct relationship between healthcare professionals level of cultural competence and their ability to provide culturally responsive health care.
- Cultural competence is an essential component in delivering effective and culturally responsive care to culturally diverse clients.
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Cultural Desire
- . . . Cultural desire is defined as the motivation of the healthcare professional to “want to” engage in the process of becoming culturally competent; not the “have to”.
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Concepts
- Cultural awareness is the self-examination and in-depth exploration of one’s own cultural background.
- Cultural knowledge is the process of seeking and obtaining a sound educational base about culturally diverse groups.
- Cultural Skills is the ability to collect relevant cultural data regarding the client’s presenting problem as well as accurately perform a culturally based physical assessment.
- Cultural encounter is the process which encourages the healthcare professional to directly engage in face-to-face interactions with clients from culturally diverse backgrounds.
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
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The Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model
Dr. Joyce Giger
Dr. Ruth Davidhizar (deceased)
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
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Giger and Davidhizar Assumptions
- The Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Model postulates that each individual is culturally unique and should be assessed according to the six cultural phenomena.
Assignment Week 2: Transcultural Diversity and Health Care
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
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Giger and Davidhizar Communication
- Communication embraces the entire world of human interaction and behavior. Communication is the means by which culture is transmitted and preserved. Both verbal and non-verbal communication are learned in one’s culture.
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach, 4th Edition
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Giger and Davidhizar
Space
- Space refers to the distance between individuals when they interact. All communication occurs in the context of space.
- Zones of personal space: intimate, personal, social, and consultative and public. Rules concerning personal distance vary from culture to culture.
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