Planning for Change, Implementing and Evaluating EBP Assignments
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Planning for Change, Implementing and Evaluating EBP Assignments
Cultural awareness is a subject that is gaining popularity in the healthcare industry today. In several minority groups across the globe, cultural discrimination has arisen as a threat to nutritional health. Ethnicity, theological status, socioeconomic background, size, gender identification, and sexual preference are among the societal biases that are being presented. These causes have been linked to exclusion and segregation in the past, and they may potentially expose patients to health disparities. The words “transcultural care” and “cultural awareness” have actually joined the medical dictionary. Culture is derived from learned or passed-down knowledge of lifestyle behaviors, habits, and values that guide people’s acts and thinking patterns. As a result, each citizen, particularly healthcare workers, has a distinct cultural history that requires adjustment and recognition. This paper seeks to discuss cultural awareness in nursing practice change implementation, the methods utilized, implementation, and evaluation.
Planning for Change
Impact of implementing change
The change implementation process has triggered cultural and language challenges that have been identified as a barrier to patient safety in facilities. The idea of cultural awareness has acquired traction as a mechanism for providing adequate and high-quality care to culturally diverse client populations (Kaihlanen et al., 2019). Cultural awareness is a multi-faceted concept related to an individual’s cultural resilience or behavior, cultural understanding, and cultural attitudes and abilities. Cultural awareness is described in the healthcare context as an appreciation of how social and cultural impacts affect clients’ health values and attitudes and how these aspects are taken into account at various stages of the patient care structure to ensure quality treatment.
Quality healthcare is considered to need effective communication amongst healthcare professionals and patients. Healthcare provision can be challenged by a huge proportion of culturally diverse people, particularly if sociocultural distinctions are not fully recognized, acknowledged, discussed, or understood (Kaihlanen et al., 2019). A shortage of cultural awareness contributes to discriminatory views about cross-cultural treatment and impacts healthcare providers’ perceptions of their ability to care for culturally diverse patients (Kaihlanen et al., 2019). Furthermore, a person’s degree of interest in intercultural contact is influenced by their apprehension regarding communicating with people from other cultures. When uncertainty is incorporated, good communication is further impaired, and assumptions are more likely to be used. Increased understanding of the disease’s socio-cultural aspects and reflection on a healthcare professional’s abilities and shortcomings while dealing with other cultures was critical to addressing various communication challenges.
The need to improve the cultural awareness of healthcare workers has been recognized for over a decade. The number of educational approaches and learning initiatives designed to increase the awareness and skills required to identify and manage sociocultural problems in the healthcare environment demonstrates this. Education can be provided during a healthcare professional’s career, customized to the person and organizational circumstances, and includes key partners in the creation, delivery, and review of the programs to enhance and maintain cultural awareness (Harkess & Kaddoura, 2016). It is also suggested that both general cultural diversity training and much more situation-specific education be offered.
Education can be provided during a healthcare practitioner’s career, customized to the person and organizational circumstances, and includes key partners in the creation, delivery, and review of the programs to enhance and maintain cultural competency (Harkess & Kaddoura, 2016). It’s also suggested that both general cultural awareness education and more situation-specific learning be offered.
Methods Used
To ensure effective change implementation, there are methods that healthcare professionals should adopt. A culturally competent practitioner is one that is mindful of cultural nuances and can adapt a patient’s treatment plan to suit their cultural and clinical requirements, even while retaining a strong appreciation for cultural options (Brathwaite, 2019). The nurse will offer culturally sensitive services if they collect cultural knowledge when evaluating a client. W