Theoretical Foundations Of Culturally Competent Nursing Care

Theoretical Foundations of Culturally Competent Nursing Care

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Theoretical Foundations of Culturally Competent Nursing Care

Introduction

The cultural diversity in the occupation of nursing is an important field. It offers a chance to manage value care to patients. Handling the distinct devout and cultural requirements of a patient might be discomforting. Interaction with patients might be enhanced, and care of patient could be improved when healthcare workers tie the division amongst the beliefs, practices, and culture of medication or treatment that make up a patient's' value classification (Dayer-Berenson, 2014). When a nurse is aware of the patient's demographic and culture, the patient would feel more relaxed.

Discussion

If the nurse is aware of the culture, food, practices, environment and religious views of the people, they might be able to deliver the quality care to the patient. Every health care effort to deliver the patient, a high-quality service that might have a positive influence on the health of the patient. Nurses might increase this potential by getting known about the culture of the patients. Getting aware of or know about the culture of the patient is said to practice cultural awareness, sensitivity, and cultural competency. Nurses can work on some approaches to provide the quality care to the culturally different patients. These might include awareness, asking and acceptance (Shez, 2015). The fashion of today's healthcare tends to be further comprehensive of individual and cultural predilections. This requires a conversant and open retort from nurses or health care providers. To provide the quality care, awareness is an important element. It is accentuated in quest of knowledgeable cultural care is recognizing the personal beliefs and principles before caring for the patients. Nurses are anticipated to be attentive of their persona cultural documentations to regulate their partialities that delay the healing relation. Self-awareness contains not only inspecting one’s philosophy but also inspecting the insights and expectations about the culture of the patient. If a nurse is unaware of the cultural beliefs of the patient, he or she better ask or communicate with a patient to understand the beliefs and practices of a patient. It would help a lot in dealing and providing care. Moreover, acceptance is a powerful tool to promote healing. A nurse must offer acceptance in their myriad of issues and difficulties (Shez, 2015). By modest action of acceptance, a nurse can turn out to be an agent of curing.

Conclusion

Nurses are important blocks of the health sector. By adapting the cultural competency, they can improve their services which results in a better provision to the patients.

References

Dayer-Berenson, L. (2014). Cultural competencies for nurses. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.

Shen, Z. (2015). Cultural competence models and cultural competence assessment instruments in nursing: a literature review. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 26(3), 308-321.