Summary Of Cultural Competent Health Care

Towson University, posted a video referring to Cultural Competent Healthcare. Assistant Professor of Nursing Nancy Hannafin, Ph.D., asserts in this video the benefits of having health care providers who are aware of other cultures, and the positive impact it has on its patients. This type of healthcare does not require the healthcare provider to be familiar with the heath care techniques from the country of origin, but should have a familiarly with the country of origin and different cues in the setting. She states that in in 2001, the US Department of Health and Human Services under the division of the Office of Minority Health created the CLAS standard. This standard stood for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services. CLAS consisted

Hannafin expresses that Cultural Competent Healthcare deviates from the typical ‘one size fits all” heath care plans. Instead this system not only prohibits stereotyping of any particular culture, but it exceedingly allows an immersive patient/doctor experience. For example, the patient gets to have a say in what part of their culture that they would like to infuse in their healthcare, rather than the doctor just assuming or not even considering. In Module 13, there were several cultural concepts that I felt could be considered relevant to the Cultural Competent Healthcare video. However, the one’s that linked a connection between medical anthropology (the video) and political anthropology (the terms) were Agency, Social Movement, and Framing Process. Agency for starters is defined as “the potential power of

It refers to a condition or set of symptoms that is restricted to a particular culture or limited number of cultures. With the Cultural Competent Healthcare system in place, it’s not only important to understand one’s place of origins and wishes, but also to understand specific illnesses that may just be limited to a single culture. For instance, Ode-ori is a syndrome found in Nigeria, where the sensation of parasites crawling in the head, feelings of heat in the head, and paranoid fears of attacks by evil spirits over take one’s mind (The Sage Dictionary). While this is a mental illness, a healthcare provider, must be aware of how one might treat this, by being culturally