Question

Discuss what cultural competence is in healthcare. Identify your cultural ancestry. If you have more than one cultural ancestry, chose the one with which you most closely associate. Explore the willingness of individuals in your culture to share thoughts, feelings, and ideas. Can you identify any area of discussion that would be considered taboo? Explore the practice and meaning of touch in your culture. Include information regarding touch between family members, friends, members of the opposite sex, and health-care providers. Identify personal spatial and distancing strategies used when communicating with others in your culture. Discuss differences between friends and families versus strangers. Discuss your culture’s use of eye contact. Include information regarding practices between family members, friends, strangers, and persons of different age groups. Explore the meaning of gestures and facial expressions in your culture. Do specific gestures or facial expressions have special meanings? How are emotions displayed? Are there acceptable ways of standing and greeting people in your culture? Discuss the prevailing temporal relation of your culture. Is the culture’s worldview past, present, or future-oriented? Prevailing temporal relations meaning, how does your culture perceive healthcare in general. Does your culture utilize certain remedies? Are they more relaxed about receiving proper healthcare? Do they seek a healthcare provider if their health is failing? How often they try to seek medical attention? Discuss the impact of your culture in healthcare or within a healthcare setting.

Answer 1

cultural competence in delivering health care services by the providers and organizations to the patient that should meet their social, cultural and beliefs. It avoids racial and ethnic health disparities and provides a quality outcome.
My cultural ancestry is native Hawaiian. They think and have good feelings on others, they greet friends and neglect their problems. they will be happy and have the enjoyment of warmth, togetherness, and fun. Taboo is deeply rooted in Hawaiian to have an idea of something forbidden to be scared. this culture has touched and been in close with friendship and family, kissing them in the cheek, and touching their hair is a kind of encouragement, greeting, and love with others. They avoid physical closeness with other than family and friends. they keep 2 feet distance with others while making conversation other than family members. they prefer the spiritual and holistic approach of medicine. they will have normal contact with health care providers, they allow general touching with health care providers to make diagnose. Hawaiian welcome strangers and give them the best possible experience for them, family members work together with mutual understanding. they have a strong feeling of hospitality, warmth, and generosity with their cultures. they make eye contact to communicate rather than words. In family grandparents and grandchildren have close contact, family elders will lead the family with finance, rules, and regulations. They use non-verbal communication like hand gestures and touching gestures and facial expressions by lifting their eyebrows for recognition, agreement, and questions.