HLT324 Transcultural Health Care
Week 1 Discussion
DQ1 "Variant
characteristics of culture" include nationality, race, age, color,
religious affiliation, educational status, socioeconomic status, occupation,
military experience, political beliefs, urban versus rural residence, enclave
identity, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, gender issues,
physical characteristics, immigration status, and length of time away from the
country of origin.
Which
characteristics can change, and which cannot? Discuss how these, whether
changing or stable, can influence one's worldview.
DQ2 How
does cultural competency occur? What can one do to become culturally aware?
Describe an effective approach to using The Purnell Model when working with
subcultures (immigration status, gender, political beliefs, socioeconomic
status, sexual orientation, educational status, etc.).
HLT324 Transcultural Health Care
Week 2 Discussion
DQ1 From
your readings, which cultural difference would be most challenging for you to
understand? Why? How would you prepare to work with individuals from this
culture in order to respect their culture?
DQ2 If
health care practitioners cannot communicate to the patients in their language,
how important is it to find a translator? Whose problem is it, the health care
provider's or the patient's? Why?
HLT324 Transcultural Health Care
Week 3 Discussion
DQ1 From
the cultural groups you reviewed for the High-Risk Nutritional Practices
assignment, briefly explain an unusual high-risk practice and how it impacts
your role as a medical professional.
DQ2 What
factors influencing nutritional practices in the United States could be changed
to improve health?
HLT324 Transcultural Health Care
Week 4 Discussion
DQ1 Describe
the spectrum of death and dying rituals and practices across cultures. Why are
death and dying rituals so significant?
DQ2 What
death and dying practices are contrary to your personal beliefs or chosen
religious values? How will you support a patient's death and dying rituals and
practices, and still honor your own?
HLT324 Transcultural Health Care
Week 5 Discussion
DQ1 If you
were caring for a child who could be cured if given blood transfusions, but
whose parents refused permission to give the transfusions due to religious
beliefs, what would you do?
DQ2 Some
parents are refraining from giving certain immunizations to their children. How
will this affect diseases in the United States in the future? How as medical
professionals can we embrace these nontraditional practices?
HLT324 Transcultural Health Care
Week 1 Assignment
Benchmark -
Diversity in Health Care Essay
Diversity
has a significant influence on health care. Studying transcultural health care
helps health professionals understand different cultures in order to provide
holistic and individualized health care. Review the Purnell Model for Cultural
Competence, including the theory, framework and 12 domains. Write 750-1,000
word paper exploring the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence. Include the
following:
Explain the
theory and organizational framework of the Purnell Model, and discuss its
relevance to transcultural health care.
Describe
Purnell's 12 domains of culture, and assess how each of these domains plays an
active role in the diversity of health care in your specific field.
Discuss how
this model can be applied when working with different cultures in order to
become a more culturally competent health care provider.
Cite at
least three references, including the course textbook.
Prepare
this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This
assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the
assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are
required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite
Technical Support articles for assistance.
HLT324 Transcultural Health Care
Week 1 Assignment
Allied
Health Community Media Scenario
The ability
to communicate, interact with different cultures, and think critically is
essential in the medical field. The interactive media scenario you will use for
this assignment illustrates a situation that could easily arise when working in
health care. To complete this assignment:
Go to the
"Allied Health Community" media link:
https://lc.gcumedia.com/hlt307v/allied-health-community/allied-health-community-v1.1.html
Click
"Enter" to begin.
Click on
the box that says "SCENARIOS."
Click on
"View Scenario" for the "Critical Decision Making for
Providers."
Examine how
the described problem might happen in your facility and the impact it could
have. Work through this situation by examining all of the choices presented in
the scenario.
When you
get to the end of the scenarios, one scenario will have the word
"Transcultural" on the top right corner. Click on "Transcultural."
Read the scenario and answer the four questions that are provided.
While APA
format is not required for this assignment, solid academic writing is expected
and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA
documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide located in
the Student Success Center.
You are not
required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.
HLT324 Transcultural Health Care
Week 2 Assignment
Family
Interview - Compare and Contrast Cultures Paper
It is
important to identify and understand your own family culture in order to be
able to understand and respect other cultures. Interview a family member, and
an individual from another culture with which you are unfamiliar. Some examples
of an individual from another culture to consider for the assignment include a
neighbor, coworker, patient, or friend. Please inform the individuals of the
purpose of this assignment and make sure you receive their consent.
Interviews:
Review the
"Family Interview" template prior to the interview. Additional space
is designated on the template for you to create three additional questions to
ask both interviewees (family member and person from another culture).
Additional questions should be relevant to the readings or discussion and
should provide value to the interview by helping to understand culture.
Some of the
questions may include:
Family
beliefs: Have they changed over generations?
Educational
and occupational status in the culture and in the family
Communication
methods: verbal and nonverbal
Current
family goals/priorities
Family
member roles and organizational systems
Spiritual
beliefs: current practice and death and dying
Alternative
lifestyles
Work
attitudes and structure
Written
Paper:
Using the "Family
Interview" template, interview your designated family member and the
person from another culture. Be sure to write your responses in a way that will
assist you in writing your paper. After the interview is completed, write a
paper of 750-1,000 words that includes the following:
An
introductory paragraph with the reasons for selecting the interviewees.
A summary
of the responses from the interview template gathered from the interviewees.
A
comparison and contrast of your findings between the two interviewees.
A
reflective concluding paragraph on how family roles affect the cultural domains
and relationships for each individual.
General
Requirements:
Submit both
the completed "Family Interview" template and the written paper"
to the instructor.
Prepare
this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This
assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the
assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are
required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite
Technical Support articles for assistance.
HLT324 Transcultural Health Care
Week 3 Assignment
High-Risk
Nutritional Practices Paper
Examine the
high-risk nutritional behaviors associated with different cultures. Identify
the historical perspectives, belief systems, and other factors associated with
these high-risk nutritional behaviors for each culture. Write a 1,500-3,000 word
paper on your findings in which you accomplish the following:
Summarize
the high risk-nutritional behaviors practiced among two or three different
cultures.
Discuss the
historical perspectives and belief systems of these cultures that influence the
high-risk nutritional behaviors.
Explore
additional influencing factors on high-risk behaviors for each culture. These
may include, but are not limited to (a) education, (b) family roles, (c)
spiritual beliefs, (d) health care practices, and (e) drug and alcohol use.
This paper
requires minimum of six outside resources in addition to the textbook.
Prepare
this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This
assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the
assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are
required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite
Technical Support articles for assistance.
HLT324 Transcultural Health Care
Week 4 Assignment
Case Study:
Through the Eyes of the Patient and the Health Care Professional
Allied
health professionals are confronted with different death and dying practices.
An effective allied health professional recognizes the importance of
understanding different cultural practices, and learns how to evaluate the
death, dying, and spiritual beliefs and practices across the cultures.
Read the
two specified case histories and choose one for this assignment.
Chapter 4,
"Stories of Abby: An Ojibwa Journey" and Chapter 14, "Stories of
Shanti: Culture and Karma," by Gelfland, Raspa, and Sherylyn, from
End-of-Life Stories: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries (2005), from the the GCU
Library.
Identify
your role as a health care professional in supporting Abby or Shanti's dying
rituals, and in creating strategies for displaying respect while still
providing quality care. Integrate your strategies as you develop a care plan
describing how you would approach the situation and care for the patient.
Review the "Care Plan" template prior to beginning.
Include the
following in your care plan:
Communication:
family and patient
Treatment
options that align with the specific culture
Education:
family and patient
Family
roles in the process
Spiritual
beliefs
Barriers
Cultural
responses
Any
additional components that you feel would need to be addressed (from your
perspective as a health care professional)
Prepare
this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
HLT324 Transcultural Health Care
Week 5 Assignment
Benchmark -
Nontraditional Health Care Practices
Research
different popular nontraditional health care practices. Write a 1,000-1,200
word paper exploring nontraditional health care practices and include the
following:
Describe
nontraditional health care practices in different cultures. Compare at least
three cultures.
Explain how
these practices affect wellness and prevention in different cultures.
Identify
the nontraditional health care options in your areas, and identify the number
of people choosing to use them over traditional medical practices. Propose
reasons why the number of people using nontraditional health care options is
rising.
Prepare
this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide,
located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This
assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the
assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are
required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite
Technical Support articles for assistance.
HLT324 Transcultural Health Care
Week 1 Quiz
1Panethnicity
can be defined as
The dynamic
interrelationship between culture and identity that reflects the notion of many
intersecting "coethnics" and evolving intercultural patterns in the
emerging global community.
The
relationship between charity and right action—between love as compassion and
response to suffering and need, and justice or fairness of doing what ought to
be done within the culture.
A sense of
interconnectedness and belonging in the complex universe.
2 Roach’s
complex nature of caring identifies six "C’s" of caring, which are:
Compassion,
competence, confidence, conscience, commitment, comportment
Compassion,
competence, coexistence, commitment, cooperation, comportment
Compassion,
competence, collaboration, commitment, cooperation, comportment
3 Personal,
empirical, ethical, and aesthetic can be classified as:
Transcultural
consciousness
The ways of
knowing
Nursing
paradigms
4 Which of
the following is NOT included in Ray’s Transcultural Communicative
Spiritual-Ethical CARING Tool for Cultural Competency?
Respect
Advocacy
Choice
5 To what
does the "explanatory" aspect of the Transcultural Caring Dynamics in
Nursing and Health-Care Theoretical Model refer?
Professionals
gaining the knowledge needed to understand personal and relational culture and
multiculturalism and their effects on choices and choice making.
Material
that all cultures can appreciate because each culture can respond to the
significance of the structural information, the essence of caring,
transcultural ethics, transcultural context, and universal sources.
Understanding,
meaning, and behavior to cocreate choices and the best possible future in the
nurse-patient/family/community relationship in given transcultural situations.
6 How does
caring relate to religion?
Caring is
seen as unique to certain religions.
Caring is a
basic tenet of all major religions.
Caring is
not related to religion.
7 The
Transcultural Caring Dynamics in Nursing and Health Care Theoretical Model
addresses all of the following questions EXCEPT:
How do
political, legal, economic, and technologic factors influence health, illness,
and healing?
What is
meant by the term "multicultural self"?
How can
culture best be avoided?
8 Transcultural
communicative caring refers to:
A
multidirectional way of caring in professional life that encourages
transcultural communication.
Longing for
that which is good
A complex,
relational, moral, and spiritual process.
9 Caring as
a transcultural phenomenon refers to:
The many
different aspects of culture that have to be addressed.
The
beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviors that are transmitted from one culture
group to another.
An
intentional human activity.
10 Transcultural
caring dynamics can be defined as a theory with the following four dimensions
EXCEPT:
The essence
of caring
Transcultural
caring ethic
Transcultural
context
Human and
cultural rights
