Learning Outcomes:
Utilize therapeutic communication and interventions to provide professional nursing care for health promotion and maintenance, illness care, and rehabilitation of socio-culturally diverse clients in various setting.
Utilize research to provide evidence-based practice to advance professional nursing practice and the delivery of health care
Learning Objective:
Identify cultural, socio-economic, and political and religious variables and their impact on a client within the health care system.
Utilize therapeutic communication skills in providing care.
Please choose one of the following topics to complete the required research assignment. The students will individually prepare and write an APA formatted research paper emphasizing culturally competent care and enhancing cultural knowledge.
Step 1: Select one of the following topics below to complete the research assignment:
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Prepare a written research paper on a minority/cultural group to determine:
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Family roles of this culture
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Use of folk and/or traditional health care
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Values and beliefs of this culture
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Socioeconomic factors of this culture
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Diseases/conditions common for this culture
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Indicate factors that can impede therapeutic communication
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How does communication take place?
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How the nurse utilizes therapeutic and nontherapeutic communication related to the specific culture.
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Prepare a written research paper on a minority/cultural group to determine:
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Healthcare practices, habits, likes, dislikes, customs, and rituals of a specific culture that pertain to health care.
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Discuss what steps the nurse would take to provide culturally competent care to a patient of this specific culture.
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Discuss resistance or reluctance to engage in communication of this specific culture
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Discuss resistance or reluctance to accept nursing interventions pertaining to their healthcare of the specific culture
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Discuss religious and spiritual beliefs of this culture
Step 2: Once a topic is selected, please choose a country from the list to research their culture:
India Italy
Asia England
Dominican Republic Japan
Jamaica Russia
Bahamas France
Nigeria Greece
Africa China
Mexico German
Trinidad and Tobago Korea
Hispanics Kenya
Ireland Puerto Rico
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Please remember that this assignment should be completed in proper APA format, 7th edition and submitted to the correct dropbox.
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Please utilize Times New Roman font size 12, page numbers, level 1 headers, no running head.
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This assignment should be double spaced with a separate title page and reference page.
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At least 2 of your references should come from scholarly sources.
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This assignment should include 600-900-word summary of your chosen country (excluding title page and reference page) and no more than 1000 words.
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This paper must include a minimum of 2 scholarly articles written within the past 5 years.
To ensure academic integrity, please note that this assignment will be graded with the assistance of the TURNITIN plagiarism software. If your assignment is returned with a similarity percentage of 25% or greater, you will receive a “ZERO” for this assignment.
Title page – Your title page should include the title of your paper, your name, course name, names of instructors, and date of submission
Introduction – The introduction of your assignment should include information about the selected topic from the above list.
Body – In this section you need to address information gleaned from research articles utilized and discuss how the articles relate to the specific culture and one or more core competencies (knowledge of cultural-self (cultural self-awareness), knowledge of cultural worldview framework (knowledge of cultural worldview frameworks), Empathy Skills, Skills in verbal and non-verbal communication, attitudes (curiosity), and attitudes (openness).
Conclusion – Conclude your assignment by restating the problem and noting any future interventions that may need to occur.
Reference Page – All references should be obtained from scholarly journals and should not be more than 5 years old.