Transcultural Perspectives Across Lifespan 1

The Course Outcomes covered this week are below. CO2: Communicate effectively with culturally diverse individuals, families, and organizations. (PO3) CO Perform a culturally competent nursing assessment. (PO7) This week select and read one of the chapters of particular interest to you listed in Assignments under Readings; discuss what information you should obtain to develop and implement culturally appropriate plans of care for an individual of this group; and share a brief case study or exemplar as a way to share your formation.  Transcultural Perspectives Across Lifespan 1.Examples: Childbearing: A young Hasidic mom just emigrated from Israel to the United States. She is at term and comes to your Mother/Baby Unit for delivery. Children: Oman is 5 years old. His family members are refugees from Syria.

ORDER A PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPER NOW

At the local community center a routine blood sugar test indicated his results were very high. He now needs hospitalized for control. Adult: Luca moved to the United States after earning her BSN in Manila, Philippines. She works three jobs so that she can send money home to her family. Transcultural Perspectives Across Lifespan 1.  She needs a treatment for breast cancer, but taking time off from any of the jobs will create a hardship on her local and extended family at home. Older Adult: KC is 72 years old and came to the United States many years ago from Ghana. He is divorced, his children do not live in the area, and you often see him at the senior citizen’s center where you volunteer. He has uncontrolled hypertension. Mental Health: Arkady was born in the former Soviet Union. He has battled depression most of his adult life and has been hospitalized again in the mental health facility 30 miles from his family for a suicide attempt. Although he has health insurance, the benefits for his diagnosis are about to expire. Transcultural Perspectives Across Lifespan 1.

NR 391 Week 5 Discussion: Transcultural Perspectives Across Lifespan

Transcultural Perspectives Across Lifespan (graded)

Select and read ONE of the chapters of particular interest to you listed in Assignments under Required Readings. Discuss what information you should obtain to develop and implement culturally appropriate care plans for an individual of this group. A brief case study or exemplar may be one way to present your information. For example, how would you provide culturally- appropriate care for an elderly female who is Muslim and presents to the Emergency Department with chest pain? Transcultural Perspectives Across Lifespan 1.

Standards of Practice (graded)

The basis for our lesson this week came from the Standards of Practice for Culturally Competent Nursing Care Executive Summary, Transcultural Nursing Society: http://www.tcns.org/TCNStandardsofPractice.html.

Your nursing leader has decided that the department needs to better incorporate these Standards of Practice for Culturally Competent Nursing Care into the nursing care delivery model at your organization. There are 12 Standards.

Read the Executive Summary.

Select one of the 12 Standards in the Summary.

Does your department or /organization currently give credence to this standard? If so, how? Think about the standards as they relate to culturally sensitive care. If not, offer suggestions of how the standard can be incorporated into patient care or your organization as a whole. Transcultural Perspectives Across Lifespan 1.

Note: There are 12 standards, so make sure you choose a standard that another student has not described. We all have different takes on a standard so the standard should be specific for the patient population or organization. The typical number of students in a class means that we should only read about a particular standard twice. And, keep in mind that each of us does not work in an acute care setting, so examples from other practice settings will add to our discussion.

Workforce Diversity (graded)

As nurses, we often work with physicians or other healthcare team members whose native language is not English. In fact, some of you may have interviewed a non-native English speaker for your Course Project. Transcultural Perspectives Across Lifespan 1.

1. Share an example of miscommunication that has occurred as a result of this disparity.

2. Reflect on your new-found knowledge of transcultural nursing, and describe how this miscommunication could have been prevented.

The Course Outcomes covered this week are below.

CO2: Communicate effectively with culturally diverse individuals, families, and organizations. (PO3)

CO4:  Perform a culturally competent nursing assessment. (PO7)

This week

• select and read one of the chapters of particular interest to you listed in Assignments under Readings;
• discuss what information you should obtain to develop and implement culturally appropriate plans of care for an individual of this group; and
• share a brief case study or exemplar as a way to share your formation.

Examples:

Childbearing: A young Hasidic mom just emigrated from Israel to the United States. She is at term and comes to your Mother/Baby Unit for delivery.

ORDER A PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPER NOW

Children: Oman is 5 years old. His family members are refugees from Syria. At the local community center a routine blood sugar test indicated his results were very high. He now needs hospitalized for control.

Adult: Luca moved to the United States after earning her BSN in Manila, Philippines. She works three jobs so that she can send money home to her family. She needs a treatment for breast cancer, but taking time off from any of the jobs will create a hardship on her local and extended family at home. Transcultural Perspectives Across Lifespan 1.

Older Adult: KC is 72 years old and came to the United States many years ago from Ghana. He is divorced, his children do not live in the area, and you often see him at the senior citizen’s center where you volunteer. He has uncontrolled hypertension.

Mental Health: Arkady was born in the former Soviet Union. He has battled depression most of his adult life and has been hospitalized again in the mental health facility 30 miles from his family for a suicide attempt. Although he has health insurance, the benefits for his diagnosis are about to expire. Transcultural Perspectives Across Lifespan 1.