Women’s Community Clinic The Women’s Community Clinic is a clinic serving the health and wellness needs of girls and women in the San Francisco Bay area. This clinic, which opened in 1999, is a volunteer based, nonprofit business. (Women’s Community Clinic website, 2014, history 1) The Women’s Community Clinic (WCC) provides services to women, the transgender and gender variant community, and girls age 12 and older who live in San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda, or Marin County regardless of their ability to pay for the services. Their requirements for service are either have no health insurance, have inadequate health insurance, have Medi-Cal, or need confidentiality from someone who shares their insurance policy. WCC has enrollment counselors on site to help patients enroll and decide on a plan offered by the Affordable Care Act. (Women’s Community Clinic website, 2014, FAQ 1) WCC is a project of the Tides Center. The Tides Center is 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization. Having this designation allows for WCC to be exempt from federal income and property taxes, state registration for fundraising, and for persons to make tax deductible charitable contributions to the clinic.(Tides website, n.d., p. 1) The core values of the clinic are listed as client-centered care, cultural inclusion, and harm reduction. Client-centered care is as it sounds – centered on the client. The staff strives to treat, educate and empower their clients in a language that they are comfortable with and that is safe and non-threatening. This clinic cares for many unique individuals from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Cultural inclusion focuses on actively learning about different cultures and beliefs and the acceptance and validity of the dif... ... middle of paper ... ...rovide education. Each patient admitted to cardiac rehab has a risk factor profile on admission and reassessed throughout the program and on discharge. Education is provided based on the individual needs of each patient and to the entire group in relation to cardiovascular health and wellness. The PHN focus entails many aspects such as trend detection, collecting and analyzing data, disaster preparedness and relief, reporting of communicable diseases and many other duties for the entire community, not just a select group as I do. (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012, Chapter 46) Works Cited Stanhope, M., & Lancaster, J. (2012). Public health nursing: Population-centered care in the community (8th ed.). Maryland Heights, Missouri: Elsevier Mosby. Tides website. (n.d.). http://www.tides.org Women’s Community Clinic website. (2014). http://www.womenscommunityclinic.org
Douglas, Rosenkoetter, Pacquiao, Callister, Hattar-Pollara, Lauderdale, Milstead, Nardi, & Purnell (2014) outline ten guidelines for implementing culturally competent care; knowledge of cultures, education and training in culturally competent care, critical reflection, cross-cultural communication, culturally competent practice, cultural competence in health care systems and organizations, patient advocacy and empowerment, multicultural workforce, cross-cultural leadership, and evidence-based practice and research. One specific suggestion I will incorporate is to engage in critical reflection. This is mentioned both by Douglas, et al. (2014) and Trentham, et al. (2007) as an important part of cultural competency. I will do this by looking at my own culture, beliefs, and values and examining how they affect my actions. I will use this information to better inform my day to day practice when working with patients with a different culture than my
However, St. Joseph’s Mercy Care Services, which is an affiliation of Saint Joseph’s Hospital is said to be one of the largest community outreach programs in the Atlanta area. They provide several services to those who are less fortunate; the services provided by this facility consists of providing primary healthcare and essential services t...
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The absence of cultural competency in some health care providers, lack of community perspective integration in health care facilities, and low quality health care received by women in developing countries.These are the three most pressing health care concerns that need to be addressed in our ever changing world. The first of the issues I’ll be discussing is the lack of cultural competency amongst health care providers, as well as the shortage of education and training in cultural competency. As we all know and see the United States is a racially and ethnically diverse nation which means our health care providers need to be equipped with the necessary education and training to be able to provide for diverse populations. As an East African
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According to Allender, Rector, and Warner (2014), public health is a combination of both an art and a science (2014). The mission of public health nursing is to promote health, prevent disease and ultimately prolong life (Allender et al., 2014). In order for this to occur an assessment must take place. An aggregate or community assessment begins with a collection of data. This includes: the community’s health needs, risks, environmental conditions, financial resources through local census data, and a windshield survey (Allender et al., 2014). Through public health nursing, communities can collectively come together to help promote an overall better health standing.
Anderson et al. (2010) viewed the healing setting as shared beliefs between the client and the practitioner about what healing means (p. 148). They state “the setting in which a treatment occurs imbues the process with power and prestige while simultaneously reminding the participants of the predominant cultural beliefs regarding effective care” (p. 148). In this sense, whatever is acceptable treatment within a specific culture is valid so long as patients believe in the treatment. Thus, what happens in...
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During one of my undergraduate courses, “Community and Population Health”, I completed a paper on my community and access to healthcare. During the research and community outreach performed to meet the goals of the paper, my eyes were opened to the plight of small communities in regards to access to quality healthcare. This plight has become my passion, and has formed the basis for my vision of the Family Nurse Practitioner role.
In the clinical setting, nurses are believed to spend the most time with patients. This involves regularly dealing with people coming from different ethnicities and with different cultural practices and beliefs (Brown & Edwards, 2012). Given this cultural diversity, every patient may have his/her own cultural beliefs and practices regarding his/her own health and its treatment which can be similar or different to those ... ... middle of paper ... ... nternational Journal for Quality in Health Care, 8(5), 491-497.
As a nurse strive to provide culturally sensitive care, they must recognize how their client's and their perceptions are similiar as well as different. Nurse enhance their ability to provide client-centered care by reflecting on how their beliefs and values impact the nurse-patient relationship. To provide appropriate patient care, the nurse must understand her/his culture and that of the nurse profession. Cultural biases can be particularly difficult to identify when the nurse and client are of a similar cultural backgroup. When we recognize and know a culture, we will know what is right for our patient, and thus may impose our own values on the client by assuming our values are their values. Recognizing differences a present an opportunity not only to know the other, but also to help gain a greater sense of self. In this paper, I will explain more about diversity and cultural competence in case study.
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Cultural competence can be defined as using the ability of one’s awareness, attitude, knowledge and skill to effectively interact with a patient’s many cultural differences. Madeline Leininger, a pioneer on transcultural nursing describes it this way; “a formal area of study and practice focused on comparative human-care differences and similarities of the beliefs, values and patterned lifeways of cultures to provide culturally congruent, meaningful, and beneficial health care to people” (Barker, 2009, p. 498). The importance of cultural diversity in healthcare allows for the delivery of appropriate cultural autonomy. Showing respect for others will lead to trust between nurse and patient which in turn improves healing and health.
Lipson, J.G. & Dubble, S.L. (Eds). (2007). Culture & clinical care. San Francisco, California: The Regents, University of California.
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