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Week 5: Transcultural Perspectives Across Lifespan 4 4 unread replies. 5 5 replies. The Course Outcomes covered this week are below. CO2: Communicate effectively with culturally diverse individuals, families, and organizations. (PO3) CO Perform a culturally competent nursing assessment. (PO7) This week select and read one of the chapters of particular interest to you listed in Assignments under Readings; discuss what information you should obtain to develop and implement culturally appropriate plans of care for an individual of this group; and share a brief case study or exemplar as a way to share your formation. Examples: Childbearing: A young Hasidic mom just emigrated from Israel to the United States. She is at term and comes to your Mother/Baby Unit for delivery. Children: Oman is 5 years old. His family members are refugees from Syria. At the local community center a routine blood sugar test indicated his results were very high. He now needs hospitalized for control. Adult: Luca moved to the United States after earning her BSN in Manila, Philippines. She works three jobs so that she can send money home to her family. She needs a treatment for breast cancer, but taking time off from any of the jobs will create a hardship on her local and extended family at home. Older Adult: KC is 72 years old and came to the United States many years ago from Ghana. He is divorced, his children do not live in the area, and you often see him at the senior citizen's center where you volunteer. He has uncontrolled hypertension. Mental Health: Arkady was born in the former Soviet Union. He has battled depression most of his adult life and has been hospitalized again in the mental health facility 30 miles from his family for a suicide attempt. Although he has health insurance, the benefits for his diagnosis are about to expire.

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Child bearing:

Culturally competent care means providing cultural based care and follow their beliefs..As a community health nurse we need accurate knowledge, skills and assessment for the process of treatment..identify their beliefs,values, meanings and behaviour,social and physical environment..Israel has different culture and history and beliefs..Brief cultural assessment helps to determine the he needs of person which improves nurse Patient relationship..child bearing practice vary from cultural beliefs and values..provide cultural competence care including cultural knowledge, religious laws, customs and practice during labor,delivery and post partum and it will be based on prayer, communication with family,dietary laws..

Children:

Syrian refugees vulnerable children more prone for physical and mental illness.. Humanitarian organization that provide relief crisis intervention and emergency services for Syrian refugees..crisis intervention efforts needs for this child..Humanitarian crisis for support the basic needs human needs for people and turkish government make intervention to Syrian refugees that support their emergency needs ...Syrian culture has a patriarchal structure..A holistic approach should focus on child and values and needs the intervention for children should be culture and religion based need coping intervention..

Adult:

Providing individual treatment and care for especially for women when they chronically sick by understanding their personal,cultural,health carer should provide treatment..job retention when the women getting treatment make less effective treatment and attention..uinform implementation and management improve the survival, the role of employees accommodation in the post treatment and job loss can affect her financial consequences..so make flexibility with tremendous improvement in job retention..patient can work during their active treatment can retain employment..

Older adults:

Ghanian people mostly affect with chronic illness,living in an ethnically and culturally diverse society needs health care providers support..it should be respected that particular culture should be care with knowledge.. Transcultural perspective help senior citizens with their illness when they get shifted from some other place..there is national health insurance scheme and new health policy for their health needs can control their sickness with cost effective..