Providing Culturally Competent Nursing Care 4
Providing Culturally Competent Nursing Care 4Providing Culturally Competent Nursing
Care 4CO 1 – Utilize prior knowledge of theories and principles of nursing and related
disciplines to explain expected client behaviors, while differentiating between normal
findings, variations, and abnormalities. (PO 1)CO 2 – Recognize the influence that
developmental stages have on physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual functioning. (PO
1)CO 3 – Utilize effective communication when performing a health assessment. (PO 3)The
AssignmentThis week you have your choice of three discussion topics! Select the one that
most interests you and answer the corresponding questions completely.Remember to
reference both the book or lesson, and an outside scholarly source.Option #1:You are the
nurse assessing an Orthodox Jewish client with peptic ulcer. The client is strictly religious
and refuses to eat the food provided at the health care facility.Describe how you would
further assess and provide care for this client.What steps could you take to increase your
cultural competence, if you were not familiar with this faith?Option #2:You are the nurse
caring for a client with Crohn’s disease. The client believes he is being punished by God. The
client is spiritually distressed and cannot come to terms with the illness.How would you
respond to this client?What are some identified risk factors for spiritual distress, and
recommended interventions?Option #3:Describe a time in your clinical nursing practice
when you have cared for a client of cultural, religious, or spiritual practices different from
your own.What were some of the challenges you faced caring for this client?What steps did
you take (or could you have taken) to ensure the patient received culturally/spiritually
competent care?ORDER NOW FOR CUSTOMIZED, PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPERSYou must
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mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before
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Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to
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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