Culturally Competent Health Care Organizations HW

Culturally Competent Health Care Organizations HW

Read chapter 9 of the class textbook and review the attached PowerPoint presentation. Once done work on the following exercise.

1. Write your opinion on respecting and honoring the needs of those who have a culture that we are not familiar with and speak a different language.

Include standards for cultural sensitivity established by credible organizations.

Discuss the unique challenges of living in a foreign culture.

What health implications emerge from not adhering to the above standards?

Write your opinion on how to improve awareness of the cultural needs of patients and families in a hospital environment.

Discuss the effect that the culture of the organization has on the education about cultural needs.

Identify and prioritize three critical elements for meeting cultural needs.

*Search the standards for culturally competent by the ANA, Joint Commission, or AMA, IHI, or another organization and describe similarities and differences.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.