SAS 5

• Cultural assessment refers to a systematic, comprehensive examination of individuals, families, groups and communities regarding their health-related cultural beliefs, values and practices.
• AL Strategy: Turn and talk (Students turn to talk partner/s to – find out, summarize, clarify, share ideas, point of view or opinions)
• Global migration has increased the challenges of providing health care to patients with health care beliefs, practices and needs different from health care provider.
• Culture is the system of shared ideas, rules, meanings that influences how we view the world, experience it emotionally, and behave in relation to other people.
• Ethnicity is an ethnic group composed of individuals who self-identify membership with or belong to a group with shared values, ancestry and experiences.
• Race is a socially constructed concept of dividing people into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of physical characteristics.
• Cultural competence recognizes the need for a set of skills necessary to care for people of different cultures.
• Cultural desire is the motivation the nurse needs to “want to” and not “need to” become culturally aware.
• Cultural humility is the process that requires humility as individuals continually engage in self-reflection and self-critique as lifelong learners and reflective practitioners.
• A patient is taking about the shared values that they have in the Middle East such as strictly conforming to their religious practices.
• There is an increased challenge of providing health care to patients with health care beliefs, practices and needs different from the health care provider.
• When the patient is suffering from spiritual distress the role of the nurse is to listen and let the patient do the talking.
• Respectful communication involves maintaining an open, respectful, and inquiring attitude.
• Patient care has been easier since most nurses can adapt to the different needs of patients.
• Health care workers nowadays are comfortable with the different cultures around the world.
• Nurses should learn about their own strengths and weaknesses by doing self-awareness.
• When the patient diagnosed with stage 4 cancer cries out, ―Why? Why is God punishing me like this?!‖ The patient here is demonstrating emotional distress.
• Stoll’s guidelines for spiritual assessment do not include the question ―Is religion or God significant to you? If yes, can you describe how?‖.
• There is globalization of health care therefore creating more ease of work for health care workers.
• The nurse has noted the skin color of the patient on the patient’s chart as part of the assessment.
• Cultural humility includes the difficult work of examining cultural beliefs and cultural systems of both patients and nurses to locate the points of cultural dissonance or synergy that contribute to patients’ health outcomes.
• Health assessment includes cultural and spiritual assessment.
• Cultural and spiritual assessment is important in health assessment as it helps to understand the patient’s beliefs and values, which can influence their health outcomes.
• Cultural competence in health assessment involves being sensitive to a patient’s culture during the assessment process, understanding the difference between spirituality and religion, and explaining the importance of assessing a patient’s spiritual needs.
• In order for a nurse to acquire certain skills in order to provide the appropriate nursing care for people of different cultures, the nurse must first develop a Cultural competence.
• Nursing presence is a holistic and reciprocal exchange between the nurse and patient that involves a sincere connection and sharing of human experience through active listening, attentiveness, intimacy and therapeutic touch, spiritual exploration, empathy, caring and compassion, and recognition of the patient’s psychological, psychosocial and physiological needs.
• Biases are the attitudes or feelings that we attach to perceived differences.
• Respectful Communication involves maintaining an open, respectful, and inquiring attitude and always being ready to acknowledge your areas of ignorance or bias.
• Questions such as “Why did I get cancer?” “I’m a burden to my family.” and “I just don’t know what to do,” may arise from the patient who is experiencing spiritual distress.
• Spirituality is the most human of experiences that seeks to transcend self and find meaning and purpose through connection with others, nature and/or a Supreme Being, which may or may not involve religious structures or traditions.
• Collaborative Partnerships involve communication based on trust, respect, and a willingness to reexamine assumptions, allowing patients to express concerns that may run counter to the dominant culture.
• Religion is a system of beliefs or practice of worship.
• Spiritual Distress occurs when an individual’s sense of purpose or meaning of life is threatened, resulting in a state of suffering related to the impaired ability to experience meaning in life through connections with self, others, the world, or a superior being.
• Global migration in relation to health care is a complex issue that requires a multidisciplinary approach.
• Self-Awareness involves exploring one's cultural identity and values are the standards we use to measure our own and others' beliefs and behaviors.
• Cultural humility in health assessment involves self-reflection, respectful communication, and collaborative partnerships.