Patient-Centered Care Essay

Adeola Adebayo posted a new comment on the thread Lesson 1 Discussion for NURS612Z2 - Population Health (Spring 2016):

DQ#2 When planning nursing care among different cultural groups involves learning as much as possible about the patient’s cultural customs and beliefs. How does the nurse go about learning more about a patient’s culture?

Delivering Culturally Competent Care Through Effective Communication

Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) need to see culturally competent patient care as a necessary set of skills that they (APNs) need to attain in order to deliver effective patient-centered care. Moreover, the primary goal of the cultural competent patient care has been to increase health equity among diverse cultures and reduce disparities by concentrating more on people of color as well as other disadvantaged populations (Campinha-Bacote, 2011). Furthermore, cultural competence should be an ongoing process for all healthcare workers; striving continuously to achieve special ability to work effectively within their patient's cultural context in regards to the patient as an individual, their

Some cultures allow open conversation with opposite sex while other cultures see this as an intrusion into their privacy. Becoming a culturally competent healthcare professional involves integrating cultural desire with cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, and cultural encounter as well as cultural skill which is defined as the ability to collect appropriate cultural data in regards to the patient's presenting problems. Moreover, cultural assessment should have a goal of obtaining accurate patient information which will help the nurse to arrive at a mutually acceptable and culturally relevant plan of care for individual patient problem (Campinha-Bacote,