The Strength Of A Family In Nursing By Mario Puzo

“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.” Mario Puzo, American author. A nurse at a hospital in an emergency department is attending to his patients when he gets a new critical patient. The nurse thinks it’s important to gather information about the patient prior to the arrival of the patient by ems. The nurse reads that the patient is of a different nationality and speak English fluently. Their nationality states they have to have certain prayers and rituals before and after every procedure. The nurse has never heard of these rituals and prayers before so the nurse fails to consider the patient’s wishes and decides to treat this patient as any other patient. It’s important that nurses gain the

For example think of a scenario where there is an adolescent girl who is pregnant at the age of 16 and she is married to an older man. Does the family allow the soon to be mother of the child to see and hold the child or do they immediately take the child without her ability to nourish the child. Also does the family allow the father of the child to be present in the room when the birth of the child occurs or if he is required to not be present at all. Campinha-Bacote states that Cultural skill as a process is concerned with carrying out a cultural assessment (Campinha-Bacote, 2002, p.5). This refers to the scenario by whether or not the nurse fulfills the requests of the family during this particular procedure by allowing their traditions to be met and also if the family lacks the ability to speak fluent English then the nurse can help fulfill that by having an interpreter in the room while providing care, as long as the qualities of the interpreter meets the families wishes. If the request is fulfilled this will raise patient satisfaction by letting the family have their wishes and beliefs fulfilled. In a quote produced by the Joint Commission that is cited in Purnell states that “A lack of knowledge of patients language abilities and cultural beliefs and value can result in serious threats to life and quality of care for all individuals” (p.8). The Joint is stating that every person has a different perception of culture and that as nurses we cannot assume that what culture we believe in is the same as what other ethnical group believe. A nurse has to change his or her perception on how they take care of each of their patients if they want to build a strong trust and relationship with their patient. With these core fundamentals this is why nurses need to be culturally aware and sensitive to their patients and