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Transcultural nursing practice is essential in today's westernised healthcare system (Lo, 2012). It provides conscientious awareness to an individual's traditional background, values, faith and cultural customs, and assists with reducing health inequalities to our ethnically diverse multicultural population (Cheraghi, Manookian & Nasrabadi, 2014).
Cultural identities have idiosyncratic ethnic
concerns that influence their well-being and mortality, and is capable to manipulate
perceptive health requirements and deliverance of health care. Healthcare providers
need to respect, comprehend and adhere to cultural beliefs to appropriately deliver
holistic healthcare (Leininger, 2002). Addressing ethnic variations (Noels, 2014), cultural dietary requirements or restrictions (Koenig, Dutta, Kandula & Palaniappan, 2012; Ren Chung,
Stoel, & Xu, 2011),
gender preference (Zisberg, Topaz &
Band-Wintershtein, 2015), palliative
rituals (Nikora, 2012), and transcultural preferences for
medical treatments and procedures (Gray, Szulczewski,
Regan, Williams & Pai, 2014; Han, 2013; Bock, 2012) during nursing assessment is vital in
becoming culturally competent.
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| Narayanasamy, A. (Artist). (2002). ACCESS model for transcultural nursing [Table]. Retrieved from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.cqu.edu.au/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=3f2757ef-04ee-49b4-a5ae-529dded25622%40sessionmgr4003&vid=69&hid=4210. (Original work created 1999) |
The ethical
standards of 3.2, 4.6 and 8.2 in the Code of Ethics for Nurses in Australia
(NMBA, 2010) recognises
one's own religious and cultural values may culturally clash, but prejudicial
opinions must not be imposed to influence
decision-making (Burgess
& Murray, 2015). The biomedical
dominance and ethnocentrism of Western healthcare (Hunter, Corcoran, Phelps & Leeder, 2012) need to accept the cultural context and
holistic benefice of traditional therapy and Complementary and Alternative Medicines (Vardell, 2015). An interactive learning lesson focused on
the cultural end-of-life traditional requirements of a female Indigenous Wiradjuri woman,
and acknowledges the importance of cultural sensitivity to alternative spiritual
dimensions of healthcare (Nikora,
2012). Integrating Eastern alternative practices
of Holism, Humanism, Balance and Spirituality with traditional biomedical practices
will incorporate therapeutic balance of psychological, emotional and spiritual factors to produce
more transcultural and person-centred beneficial treatment outcomes (Jae-Mahn, 2015).
Self Reflection: This module has given me an appreciation
that every individual is a creation of their culture, and that it is my responsibility
as a nurse to ascertain cultural assessment and provide transcultural healthcare
to fit cultural expectations in relation to my clients unique ethnic values, beliefs
and practices. This will help me in my future clinical practice to be more culturally
competent and assist me to be more professionally sensitive to the healthcare
needs of my clients.
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