Question

1. Reflect upon and describe the strength and a challenge you have identified about yourself in the context of your healthcare experience at the individual, family, community, or population level. Provide at least one specific example and describe the setting, duration of the experience, skills learned and applied, and how your interactions with others have helped you clarify your future aspirations as a nurse.
2. Cultural humility is an essential aspect of healthcare and nursing. Cultural humility includes three principles:
   1. Lifelong learning and critical self-reflection,
   2. Recognize and mitigate power imbalances inherent in our healthcare system, and
   3. Institutional accountability, where the institution has to model and support these.

Describe a healthcare experience when you worked with a patient, family, community, or population much different from yourself and where your beliefs and values differed in some way. What, if anything, would you do differently if faced with a similar situation?

Answer 1

Answer : health care experience means while we are performing care to the clients, we may get some of the experiences.

* here we are not directly performing to the clients but continues interactions must be there with the clients.

* for example we can take vital signs of clients, administration of medications, taking blood samples, collecting reports, and bed side cleaning, keeping patient comfortably, records and reporting etc,.

For example : during pregnancy mother can take all types of diet like all types of fruits like guava, mango, black berry, orange, papaya, banana and all.

* when I went to field I was given health education regarding antenatal diet.

* so I explained to regarding iron rich diet also like ground nuts with jaggery, all grean leafy vegetables and all black fruits,.

* but the mothers and there parents not accepted to take papaya and banana fruits, because they have miss believes like abortion due to papaya and only one child due to eating banana.

* but I explained nothing will happen by eating those, even I also ate during my pregnancy like that I explained.

* so some may accepted but some may not accepted.

* so that the cultural beliefs can effect on health.

* by conducting some of the role-plays, and awareness programs we can reduces this beliefs.

Another example : regarding new born , after delivery some not give colostrum to the new born and also they will give sugar water and honey to the new born.

* when I was working in the hospital I explained the benefits of colostrum and breast feeding importance to the mother, and problems due to giving honey and sugar water.

* even though I explained they given sugar water and honey With out giving breas milk, but beside bed mother has given only breast milk,.

* so the baby who has taken only breast milk she was healthy, and the baby who has taken a sugar water and honey that baby got pneumonia.

* so, again l explained regarding this problem by comparing with healthy baby.

* so, at last with the evidence they believed the words of mine.

So, we will get different types of health care experiences with individuals, families, and communities and with patients.