Cultural Competency in Nursing Asian and Hispanic Populations Culture is best defined as one’s learned perspectives, behaviors, values, beliefs, traditions, and norms that directs decision making and outlook. (Douglas et al., 2014) Culture can influence all aspects of one’s life including views of health care and illness. Cultural competence is the ability of the nurse to understand and incorporate the patient’s culture into the plan of care and it is vital to achieving patient-provider trust
this as a process of the globalisation of culture—“cultural integration and cultural disintegration that transcend the state-society level and occur on a trans-national or trans-societal level” (Featherstone, 1990: 1) if we try to engage a broader definition of culture. This essay will address how cultural identities and practices interweave with aspects of globalisation. Looking beyond theories of cultural homogenisation and polarisation, this essay will focus on various responses
resulted in children’s suicide and low confidence at times. According to some studies, various styles of parents play a vital role in shaping the self-esteem of children, causing a myriad of significant impacts on children’s personal growth. This essay examines the impact of different parenting styles on children’s self-esteem and identifies which style is more favorable to children’s development. Self-esteem Self-esteem, which is key to one’s success, is very important for a young person’s
In this essay I will identify what is meant by oppressive and anti-oppressive practice and how it can affect the way in which social workers practice. This essay will also discuss what challenges a social worker may face when attempting to implement anti-oppressive practice when working with a service user from a different ethnic background. Such as the appropriate way in which a social worker should act when encountered with discriminatory and racist views believed by people social worker may come
enormous influence on every corner of modern life; therefore, cultural sphere cannot escape from the sprawl of societial homogenization. According to David (2002), globalization can be viewed as a process of “harminizing different culture and beliefs” (cited in Yusuf). Globalization, to some extent, has created a “ubiquitous and complex context” for the study of interculteral communication (Sorrells, 2012). Interculteral communication competence is one way or another daily necessity in the present circumstance
with these group of clients. Counsellors can be unravelled by the lack of familiarity with culture-specific knowledge, awareness and skills in their interaction with the diverse clients (Arredondo et al, 1996). Multicultural competence in counselling is defined in this essay as the ability to form the therapeutic alliance with a diverse client in a culturally appropriate manner (Arredondo et al, 1996), which refers to the counsellor’s ability to treat the diverse client with the level of dignity
communicate with each other. Nevertheless, one most important outcome of globalization is the increased spread of languages, particularly the English language. language Globalization can be defined as the correlations of global political, economic, cultural and environmental processes that modify present positions. however, it has been estimated that “only one-fourth of all English users worldwide are native speakers, and most non-native speakers using English do so in the absence of native speakers”
Assessment method: 3000 word essay The essay title is 'Describe, explain and discuss how occupational therapists may use a range of occupational therapy core skills to support clients' health and well-being'. The essay should include: - three OT core skills listed by Creek (2003) Occupational therapy defined as a complex intervention. London: COT - either the Model of Human Occupation (Kielhofner 2008) or the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and Engagement (Townsend & Polatajko
explore it, a lot of researchers have come up with different theories in learning. So in connection to that, I have examined three perspectives of learning in the scholarly articles written by Wenger (2000), Engestrom (2001) and Zimmerman (2000). This essay begins with a brief description of the three articles about learning. To start with, let me describe the work of Wenger (2000) who developed the concept of community of practice and systems of learning by which learning takes place
This essay examines how inequality is reproduced in the lives of urban poor under three strands: aspirations which are reflective of internalized attitude about the objective probabilities of getting ahead, language use which is restricted, devoid of reasoning and negotiation skills in institutional settings and organization of daily life which is almost always concentrated upon basic survival. I argue that each of these strands affirms and reproduces inequality in their interaction with larger social