CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE CARE PLANNING

M3 A6 WA: INSTRUCTIONS – CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE CARE PLANNING

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Overview

This week, you will learn how to plan care for patients while considering their diverse cultural backgrounds. This is an APA paper, which requires a title page, double spacing, and set up as per the example papers in your APA book. Please select a culture different from the one you chose to research in week 2. 

Then, address the following:

1. Describe the key components of conducting a comprehensive cultural assessment (rationales, interventions and evaluations may be found on the internet).
2. Choose two of the components, reflect on your own culture and how it impacts your own attitude toward those aspects of providing culturally diverse care.
3. Imagine that you are working in a physician’s office.  A patient of a background different from your own comes in to be seen for a newly diagnosed problem. Create two nursing diagnoses that reflect cultural diversity (look at Appendix A for guidance ie., “Barrier to communication”); then give rationale for each diagnosis and describe how you would intervene and evaluate for success of your plan of care.

Points:  40

Due Date: Sun, Mar 14 by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) of the US.

References

Minimum of four (4) total references: two (2) references from required course materials and two (2) peer-reviewed references. All references must be no older than five years (unless making a specific point using a seminal piece of information)

Peer-reviewed references include references from professional data bases such as PubMed or CINHAL applicable to population and practice area, along with evidence based clinical practice guidelines. Examples of unacceptable references are Wikipedia, UpToDate, Epocrates, Medscape, WebMD, hospital organizations, insurance recommendations, & secondary clinical databases.

Style

Unless otherwise specified, all the written assignment must follow APA 7th edition formatting, citations and references. Click here to download a Microsoft Word APA template. Review this annotated student sample paper guide which draws attention to relevant content and formatting in 7th edition APA style. Make sure you cross-reference the APA 7th edition book as well before submitting the assignment. Refer to the ‘LEARNER SUPPORT’ tab for more information regarding APA 7th edition with comparisons to 6th edition.

Number of Pages/Words

Unless otherwise specified all papers should have a minimum of 600 words (approximately 2.5 pages) excluding the title and reference pages.

***********Not Caucasian or Asian, my culture is Caucasian

SAMPLE SOLUTION

As the US population becomes increasingly diverse, there is a need for healthcare professionals to learn how to plan care for patients while being cognizant of the patients’ diverse cultural backgrounds and their influence on health. The purpose of this paper is to describe the key components of conducting a comprehensive cultural assessment, use two of the components and reflect on my culture and how it impacts my attitudes towards them in providing culturally diverse care, and create two nursing diagnoses reflecting cultural diversity for a patient from a different cultural background from mine.
Components of a Cultural Assessment
Conducting a comprehensive cultural assessment involves the understanding of the key components of the concept. These components include communication, biocultural variations, economics, educational backgrounds, social organization, religion and spirituality (Andrews & Boyle, 2016). Communication is the foundation of nursing….