The Cultural Competence for Nursing Practice Answers to Students

Question: Discuss about the Cultural Competence for Nursing Practice. Answer: Description My group members and I have been working on preparing and creating a poster that is to bring awareness to classmates about aboriginal and indigenous people with obesity (Carr Knutson, 2015). Working in this team has brought an appeal to me and has changed my attitude towards my view of different cultures. In Australia, obesity is a leading critical disease that affects quite a large number of people and is a primary cause of an increase in Aboriginal mortality and morbidity rate in the country (Moon, 2013). Feelings During the initial stages of working with my group members, I experienced different feelings and was not sure that I would work with people who had different cultural beliefs (National Institute of Health 2015). During the creation of the awareness poster, we had a lot of disagreement episodes because obesity is a lifestyle disease, but some of the members held that it is inherited. Despite these disagreements, we came up with the poster which I presented with the support of my friends and achieved our aim of sensitizing obesity and its effects (Gibbs, 1988). Evaluation The group work was important to me as I encountered both positive and negative experiences which according to my view formed the opportunities towards the successful completion of our project. One positive experience was the increased understanding of obesity and the effects it has on the local people in Australia (Sincy, 2016). Working with my group members also increased my interest in learning different cultural beliefs as it proved to be exciting and very useful for me as a future nurse. The bad experience is that the disagreements at times were too intense to be controlled therefore we had to postpone the meeting; therefore, it was a bit difficult to plan on the opportune time for the completion of our activity (Moon, 2013). Analysis Our group work situation has increased my sensitivity towards different cultural practice. It was fun and informative to work with these people because the further we interacted and exchanged ideas regarding our topic, the more information and knowledge I gained. It came to my understanding that to become a well-rounded nurse; I had to deal with patients from all works of life (Bulman Schutz, 2013). Action plan As part of my action plan, as a future nurse, I will go to all training sessions that are in respect to culture competence care so that I increase my culture understanding and nursing skills. I will promise myself that I will deliver standard and comprehensive patient care as expected by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. I will treat all the patients with dignity and be sensitive to their beliefs and values so that I can deliver quality health care to my patients (National Institutes of Health, 2015). SWOT analysis During the creation of the poster, all the group members employed their cultural strengths, and I was advantaged because I gained a lot of information about how lifestyle diseases such as obesity are brought about. Our differences formed a weakness and a threat during our activity as we had to take much extended periods of time before we came up with a lasting solution. The group work made sense and was among the opportunities, in the fact that delivery of quality and efficient health care can be accomplished when nurses respect the diverse cultural beliefs of their patients (Bulman Schutz, 2013) Conclusion Engagement with new people in a group was somehow frightening at first because I did not know how the other people thought of the views I presented. I realized that knowledge about people's culture was a vital tool in the realization of a healthy nursing practice (Sincy, 2016). I did research about health and the beliefs practiced by various people and the other members sort more information about culture competencies, and as a result, we managed to bring out an intensively informative poster (Carr Knutson, 2015). References Bulman, C., Schutz, S. (Eds.). (2013). Reflective practice in nursing. John Wiley Sons. Carr, B., Knutson, S. (2015). Culturally Competent School Nurse Practice. NASN School Nurse, 30(6), 336-342. Gibbs, G. (1998). The reflective cycle. Kitchen S (1999) An appraisal of methods of reflection and clinical supervision. Br J Theatre Nurs, 9(7), 313-7. National Institutes of Health. (2015). Cultural competency. Retrieved June 1, 2015. Moon, J. A. (2013). Reflection in learning and professional development: Theory and practice. Routledge. Sincy, P. (2016). SWOT Analysis in Nursing. International Journal of Nursing Care, 4(1), 34-37.