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How Have Your Thoughts About and Expectations Of Other Cultures Changed, If At All, After Watching This Video?
By watching this video, I have learned that a patient’s response to medication or treatment can vary based on their ethnicity. Therefore, there is a need for doctors to first take into account every patient’s information, including their ethnic background, in order to treat each patient based on their cultural information rather than treating them in a general approach.
What changed, if anything?
I have changed my perspective of how healthcare services should be provided and realized that there is a need to incorporate cultural competency guidelines in hospitals to ensure equality and avoid biasness when providing healthcare services in hospitals.
Describe How Dr. Walker Can Handle the Situation Better the Next Time He Encounters a Latino Patient
As mentioned in the video, a case study on post-operation patients proved that Latino patients reported more pain in each to follow up than Caucasian or African American patients. This data may indicate a generic finding related to a patient’s ethnicity. Therefore, a Latino can legitimately feel more pain during the recovery process than the other patients that Dr. Walker sees. Since Dr. Walker has been made aware of his colleague’s findings, the next time he encounters a Latino patient, he should consider assessing the patient’s complaints in detail instead of just dismissing it as a drug-seeking tactic.
Identify At Least One Thing an Organization Can Do to Improve Cultural Competence
There is an increase in diversity among nations that results in challenges and opportunities to the policy makers, systems of health care and health care providers, to design and deliver culturally competent services. Cultural competence can be explained as organizations’ and providers’ capability to practically make health care services available. More so, these services should satisfy the cultural, linguistic, and social desires of patients.
A health care system that is culturally competent can help improve the outcomes of health and the quality of medical care. It can also be contributory towards eliminating ethnic and racial disparities in health care. Some of the strategies to drive the systems of health care towards those objectives include the provision of appropriate training on cross-cultural matters and cultural competency to the healthcare professionals, and designing policies that lower linguistic and administrative barriers in the process of patient’s care (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020).
Individual beliefs, behaviors, and values about well-being and health are molded by several factors, for instance, physical and mental ability, language, race, nationality, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, occupation, and sexual orientation. With regard to health care, cultural competency is defined in general as the potentiality of organizations and providers of health care to comprehend and amalgamate these factors towards the delivery and structuring of our health care approach. A culturally proficient health care system aims to supply the most outstanding healthcare quality to every patient, irrespective of their English proficiency or literacy, race, cultural background, or ethnicity (Douglas et al., 2018).
Some typical schemes for boosting the patient-provider interactions and institutionalizing reforms in the health care processes include: providing interpretation services, recruiting and retaining minority staff, providing training to expand skills, cultural awareness, and knowledge, coordinating with customary healers, the use of community health employees, incorporating culture-specific values and views into tools of health promotion, including community and family members in the decision-making process of health care, locating clinics in various geographic locations that can be easily accessible for specific populations, increasing operation hours, providing semantic competency that will extend beyond the patient’s clinical experience to the counseling lines, medical billing, appointment desk, and any other correspondent materials (Douglas et al., 2018).
For an organization to expand its healthcare delivery structure’s cultural competency, health professionals should be trained on ways to offer services in a culturally competent approach. Although several different training modules have been invented across the nation, there has not been standardization or incorporation of these efforts into health professionals’ training in a consistent method. Training courses differ immensely in teaching method and content and may vary from hourly seminars to semester academic courses. However, it is crucial to note that cultural competency is not an ultimate goal but rather a process. It is often structured in stages by constructing previous experience and knowledge (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020).
An organization can stipulate cultural competency instructions for its members to improve cultural competency. For instance, found on ten years of working, the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) developed several guidelines for curriculum content to teach about cultural competency and sensitivity to residents of family medicine and various health professionals (Betancourt, Green, & Carrillo, 2002).
These guidelines aim to enhance attitudes in the following sectors: consciousness of the impacts of socio-cultural factors on patients, clinical relationship and clinicians, the physician embracing his/her responsibility towards comprehending the cultural facets of illness and health, willingness to avail more accessible clinical settings to patients, recognizing individual biases against patients of diverse cultures, respecting and tolerating cultural diversities, accepting the accountability to combat classism, racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism and other forms of discrimination and biases that take place in health care settings.
References
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020). Cultural Competence in Health and Human Services. Accessed from: https://npin.cdc.gov/pages/cultural-competence
Douglas, M., Pacquiao, D., & Purnell, L. (2018). Global applications of culturally competent health care: Guidelines for practice. Springer.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (n.d). Culturally tailored healthcare in orthopedics. Accessed from: https://thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/resources/videos/culturally-tailored-healthcare-in-orthopedics
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Watch the video in the link below:
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (n.d). Culturally tailored healthcare in orthopedics. Accessed from: https://thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/resources/videos/culturally-tailored-healthcare-in-orthopedics
Reflect on what you have watched and answer the following questions in a 2-3 page paper:
How have your thoughts about and/or expectations of other cultures changed, if at all, after watching this video?
What changed, if anything?
Describe how Dr. Walker can handle the situation better the next time he encounters Latino patient.
Identify at least one thing an organization can do to improve cultural competence.
Understanding Cultural Diversity in Healthcare. (2019). Case studies. Retrieved from https://www.ggalanti.org/case-studies-field-reports/
Length: 3 pages (excluding the cover page and the reference list).