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Course Reflection: Culture in Healthcare

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Course Reflection: Culture in Healthcare

In today’s health care provision, the concept of patient-centered care is increasing

drastically with linguistically and culturally diverse patients. The significance of cultural

diversity is depicted in terms of apprehension of different educational methods and quality

service delivery designed to increase cultural proficiency. Consequently, nursing practitioners

are expected to put all their perceptions on the implementation of cultural competence training

and ensure to raise awareness of artistic importance, adversity, as well as advocacy. According to

the American Nurses Association, nurses are responsible for appreciating and acknowledging the

current diversity in culture, priorities, and beliefs as a common objective towards the application

of cultural diversity in the nursing profession (Andrews et al., 2020). In general, to improve

sustainable nursing practice based on necessary training, cultural proficiency, policy

development, and coaching reducing linguistic barriers inpatient care should be considered a

priority.

Reflection

According to Lin et al (2017), most cultures have their beliefs regarding causes of illness

and various ways of treating different health conditions. This means the intent to which a

person/patient perceives science education; culturally benefits the way he or she receives

information concerning the condition as well as the process of treatment. In this case, a nurse is

anticipated to concentrate on providing skilled patient care as expected. The diversification of the

healthcare essence on a global scale has made the practice of cultural competence in nursing to

be applicable than ever before. Lin et al (2017), posits that evaluating and analyzing the values,

practices, attitudes, and health benefits of patients is crucial in nursing because it supports the

provision of quality care for patients from diverse cultures. In the same way, it establishes a
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warm environment that accommodates divergent beliefs which ease the process of providing

care. Therefore, accepting patients' cultural beliefs and assessing their conditions plays a

significant role in sustainable nursing practice that accommodates proficient cultural adversity.

Adopting the technique of behavioral change is important when providing primary care in

nursing because it promotes and improves the management of illness and health. The behavioral

models are integrated into healthcare using evidence-based techniques to influence patients to

change their unhealthy characters (Waite & Nardi, 2019). For example, adopting trans-

theoretical modeling help to segment traits of patients such that a proper intervention is obtained

and it allows the care providers to know when to prepare, act, maintain, and terminate as they

practice their profession. Notably, behavioral change techniques differ from availing of

information to unarranged setting of actual goals for social comparison of time and stress

management among patients. Adams et al. (2019) assert that nursing practitioners are expected to

take on the prescription of physical activity providing viable options for patients to exercise

depending on values, strengths, goals, culture, and individual experience together with achieving

treatment and conditional goals. In the same way, implementing brief behavioral therapy is

beneficial in promoting sustainable health management among patients.

The healthcare sector has been integrated by modern technology turning it into a

sophisticated healthcare system. Currently, patients are receiving quality care because of the

emergence of ICT because of its ability in providing preventive care. In the same way, it has

increased data protection making patients feel secure at the same time sustaining healthcare.

Nurses are advised to implement ICT into their practice since it supports and enhances

population health outcomes towards the provision of quality health globally (Andrews et al.,

2020). Ideally, integrating ICT in healthcare enables viable and accurate health data that makes
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health research and findings easier. Generally, ICT helps in health education, health research,

information management, as well as integrating hospital management systems. With modern

technology, nursing practice is open to improving services delivery and patient safety.

To achieve sustainable healthcare nurses are advised to participate in population-based

intervention, clinical prevention, equitable healthcare, as well as cost-effective practice, and they

are entitled to consider it as an integral goal. Although there are changes in healthcare between

middle-income and low-income individuals, the healthcare system is experiencing a new shift.

According to Repo et al (2016), the current shift in healthcare demands cultural differences,

health goals, and appropriating healthcare across a pool of cultures. In such situations, nurses are

expected to advocate for proving and sustaining quality care systems to meet the demands of all

social classes and to address the challenges that come by. This means quality care is the stem for

reliable and human rights to quality healthcare systems; without it, the two have no meaning. On

the other hand, giving attention to interventions that are population-based or clinical-based is

crucial, but it makes more sense when the interventions are based on their capacity, flexibility,

and relevance to address the healthcare demands from the population together with the changing

technology (Andrews et al., 2020).

Conclusion

To sum up, having cultural competence as part of nursing practices is a quality that every

healthcare practitioner should seek to have as it nurtures sustainable healthcare systems and

provision at all levels. Due to the fact that cultural diversity and implications directly influence

the healthcare system, all the relevant cultural consequences need to be prioritized when

developing strategies for providing flexible, quality, and equity care. On the other hand, even

though cultural implications and diversity turn out to be rhetoric challenges as well as attributes
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in the healthcare sector require consideration of creating and promoting viable healthcare

systems.
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