A nurse educator is preparing an orientation on culture and the workplace.
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Details: Signature Assignment Title: Diverse and Culturally Specific Approaches to Healthcare
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A nurse educator is preparing an orientation on culture and the workplace. There is a need to address the many cultures that seek healthcare services and how to better understand the culture. This presentation will examine the role of the nurse as a culturally diverse practitioner.
Choose a culture that you feel less knowledgeable about
Compare this culture with your own culture
Analyze the historical, socioeconomic, political, educational, and topographical aspects of this culture
What are the appropriate interdisciplinary interventions for hereditary, genetic, and endemic diseases and high-risk health behaviors within this culture?
What are the influences of their value systems on childbearing and bereavement practices?
What are their sources of strength, spirituality, and magicoreligious beliefs associated with health and health care?
What are the health-care practices: acute versus preventive care; barriers to health care; the meaning of pain and the sick role; and traditional folk medicine practices?
What are cultural issues related to learning styles, autonomy, and educational preparation of content for this culture?
This PowerPoint® (Microsoft Office) or Impress® (Open Office) presentation should be a minimum of 20 slides, including a title, introduction, conclusion and reference slide, with detailed speaker notes . Use at least four scholarly sources and make certain to review the module’s Signature Assignment Rubric before starting your presentation. This presentation is worth 400 points for quality content and presentation
Assignment completed FORMATTED ONLY POWERPOINT PRESENTATION with speaker note need to be added.
Diverse and Culturally Specific Approaches to Healthcare
Chinese culture and art are one of the oldest cultures in the world. The understanding of this particular culture from the perception of the world and other cultures has been the typical trend in the past. This culture is mainly depicted and interpreted but has not been examined as a vivacious civilization for communication and interaction. Majority of the people from other cultures in the world have depicted Chinese culture as mysterious and associated with agony (Zhang et al., 2017). This kind of stereotype has largely affected communication between china and other nations in the past and even currently.
There are various differences that exist between the Chinese culture and my culture that mainly influence workplace interactions. Chinese uphold the eastern way of life and thoughts while the American culture sustains the western lifestyle. The Chinese society is about the community while Americans celebrates individualism. Any success accomplished in china is regarded as a communal achievement while in the United States individuals are allowed to shine. Respect according to the Chinese culture is shown to those who are high in the structure while in American companies have flatter structures. Older people in respect to Chinese culture are treated with great respect in the society and business places. Most families live in the same roof with several generations honoring even the dead. The American culture honors the nuclear family and relatives can live miles away from them inclusive of closely related family members such as parents (Zheng, 2019). Interactions in the workplace for Chinese who visit America is mostly viewed as disrespectful and uncomfortable. Americans like to place people in the context searching for common ground leading indirect communication that contradict direct communication by Chinese people.
As earlier mentioned, Chinese civilization is one of the oldest in the world dating back in 1250 BC ruled by the Shang Dynasty. The civilization is chattered mainly by legends and pre-historical events, which include the ancient era between 1600-221 BC, imperial era that existed between 221-1912 AD and the modern china from 1949 until today. Socially, the Chinese people were mainly agriculturalists who lived in small villages of around ten or more families. According to the traditional Confucian’s view, the society comprised of four classes, which were government officials, the farmers, the artisans and merchants. Societal setting at the time viewed government officials as shepherds of the flock; the farmers as the economic pillar of the entire society while the artisans and the merchants were regarded as socially unwanted. Currently the Chinese people still live with several relatives under one roof a tradition meant to provide support to the elderly and give everyone a sense of belonging. Although this is a common practice among the Chinese, mainland china has undergone intense changes from the ancient way of lifestyle (Sun & Ryder, 2016). Like any other culture in the world today, social life of the Chinese people has been affected by the rapid modernization experienced in the world. Rising individualization is an aspect of exploration today as more people are learning to live alone.
Chinese education sector has registered tremendous changes over time with new reforms and policies. These changes have achieved major changes in both the economy and social life of people. Ancient Chinese traditions viewed education as the responsibility of the society meant to cultivate values rules and officials with focus on humanities and classical education. Modern education adapts the modern industrial society with core interest being to popularize modern scientific and cultural knowledge education.
The Chinese people just like most cultures in the world today engage in high-risk behaviors that lead to different health problems. Other than this, hereditary and generic diseases. A study done by Lor, on health promotion and disease prevention among the Hmong people in USA suggests that Chinese people living in USA are more susceptible to cancer and hepatitis B than other ethnic groups (2017). Intervention measures to address this matter will include awareness creation as well as increased research to deepen understanding of health issues among Chinese people. This allows for effective policy formulation that includes specific Chinese needs and education in health sector.
Understanding cultural beliefs and societal values of different ethnic groups provide insight for nurses to provide better health care services. Chinese women have adapted traditional childbearing practices even in today’s modern life with traditional beliefs that western culture nurses might have no clue. One of these practices is that either the maternal or the paternal grandmother provides care for the newborn and the mother within the first postpartum month. During pregnancy, the women are not allowed to do any heavy work, they also believe that cleft lip and palate is as a result of putting sharp objects on the bed. Touching adhesives while pregnant according to Chinese causes a child to be born with birthmark. Since pregnancy is treated as hot condition, women eat cold food during pregnancy to balance the yin and yang. Death amongst the Chinese is a part of reincarnation and therefore, individuals are reborn in life as human beings with different bodies. Death of a child is considered as bad death that they believe happened because the child was not blessed, and it represents an unlucky symbol. In such an event, the parents and grandparents of the child do not attend the burial ceremony because they believe this brings misfortune to the family (Zhang et al., 2017).
China is one of the rich cultures that has elaborate religious, social, and health practices that appear distinct compared to other cultures. Part of the Chinese source of strength is social and family ties. Chinese hold family ties and communal participation with great respect and honor that this practice help fight poverty. They possess numerous religious beliefs that include Buddhism and its practices, Islam, Taoism, Catholicism and Protestantism. The government of china allows people to choose their religion freely (Zhang et al., 2017). Chinese have a traditional of folk medicine that has lasted over 2000 years. They practice herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage, exercise, and dietary therapy among others. Folk medicine among Chinese people rise serious challenges for health care provision. Research show that majority of them have no faith in western health care provision and prefer traditional means of treatment (Zheng, 2019).
References
Lor, M. (2017). Systematic Review: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Among Hmong Adults in the USA. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 5(3), 638–661. https://doi.org/10.1007/
Sun, J., & Ryder, A. G. (2016). The Chinese Experience of Rapid Modernization: Sociocultural Changes, Psychological Consequences? Frontiers in Psychology, 7(4). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.
Zhang, Y., Yousaf, M., & Xu, Y. (2017). Chinese Traditional Culture and Art Communication in Digital Era: Strategies, Issues, and Prospects. Journal of Media Studies, 32(1), 61–75. http://journals.pu.edu.pk/
Zheng, A. (2019). Traditional Chinese medicine: How is it an invaluable intangible cultural heritage. Chinese Medicine and Culture, 2(2), 84. https://doi.org/10.4103/cmac.
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