Creating Culturally Competent Health Care Organizations

Read chapter 9 of the attached file from the class textbook: 

  

Title

Transcultural Concepts in   Nursing Care

 

Author

Joyceen S. Boyle;   Margaret M. Andrews

 

and 

Review the attached PowerPoint presentation. 

1. Write a 700 words paper on respecting and honoring the needs of those who have a culture that we are not familiar with and speak a different language.

In the paper you should include the following

1. Standards for cultural sensitivity established by cultural organizations

2. Discuss the unique challenges of living in a foreign country.

3. What health implications emerge from not adhering to the above standards?

Present your assignment in an APA format word document, Arial 12 font 

It will be verifying for originality by Turnitin.

Due date: Saturday, June 29, 2019

 

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The disorder I chose is Nephrolithiasis (kidney stones). “Kidney stones, or calculi, form in the kidneys as a result of precipitation of urinary constituents and may develop in one or both of the kidneys” (Cunningham, Noble, Al-Modhefer, & Walsh, 2016, p.1112). I personally know a good many people who have had kidney stones in the past or even suffer from chronic kidney stones. I know a patient who suffered with chronic kidney stones for several years in a row and it seemed like nothing fixed her problem. The doctors said she was keeping them due to her drinking sweet tea. She quit drinking tea and still had them. Here recently she has randomly quit getting them as much even though she has not changed her diet except still not drinking sweet tea. She has had lithotripsy 4 times in the years that she had chronic kidney stones. “The first line treatment choice for upper urinary tract calculi is currently shock wave lithotripsy (SWL)” (Yamashita et al., 2018, p.1). 

            Kidney stones cause extreme amounts of pain. The patient I know, when she gets kidney stones, also has nausea and vomiting due to the pain caused by kidney stones. Treatment of kidney stones include treating the pain, helping the stone to pass or removing them, and preventing new stones from forming. Symptoms of kidney stones include flank pain and blood in the urine. 

            “The prevalence of stones in the United States is approximately 7% in women and 10% in men” (Huether &McCance, 2017, p.748). Before doing my research on kidney stones, I thought they were more prevalent in women, but men have a 3% higher chance of getting them than women. “The risk of urinary calculi formation is influenced by a number of factors, including age, sex, race, geographic location, seasonal factors, fluid intake, diet, and occupation. Most persons develop their first stone before age 50 years” (Huether &McCance, 2017, p.748).

            There are many factors that influence the formations of kidney stones. People who are more active and drink plenty of water are at a decreased risk of forming kidney stones. There are also multiple types of kidney stones like calcium stones, struvite stones, and uric acid stones. Everything that happens in our bodies can be brought back to cellular function. 

Huether & McCanee, 2017, p.749, stated: 

Human urine contains many ions capable of precipitating from solution and forming a variety of salts. The salts from crystals that are retained grow into stones. Crystallization is the process by which crystals grow from a small nidus of nucleus to larger stones in the presence of supersaturated urine. 

If doctors can pinpoint what type of kidney stone a patient is forming, they can most likely fix the problem. 

References

Cunningham, P., Noble, H., Al-Modhefer, A.-K., & Walsh, I. (2016). Kidney stones: 

pathophysiology, diagnosis and management. British Journal of Nursing, 25(20), 1112–1116. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.12968/bjon.2016.25.20.1112

Huether, S. E., & McCance, K. L. (2017). Understanding pathophysiology (6th ed.). St. Louis, 

MO: Mosby.

Yamashita, S., Kohjimoto, Y., Iwahashi, Y., Iguchi, T., Nishizawa, S., Kikkawa, K., & Hara, I. 

(2018). Noncontrast Computed Tomography Parameters for Predicting Shock Wave Lithotripsy Outcome in Upper Urinary Tract Stone Cases. Biomed Research International, 2018, 9253952. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1155/2018/9253952

 

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Write a 700-word paper that evaluates any recommendations you received, and those you did not.

Consider the following:

• Who did you reach out to and what is their relation to you?
• Who responded and what did they have to say?
• Was there anything in the recommendation you felt was missing?
• Who did not respond?Is there a reason why they might not have responded?
• What did this assignment teach you about your professional relationships with current or previous employers or supervisors?
• What can you do to strengthen weak professional relationships?

 

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This week you begin to lay the foundation for your academic and professional success. Your efforts begin with a vision, which includes your own definition of success. Your vision may vary from those of your colleagues, but this does not mean you have to take these first steps alone.

Walden University and the School of Nursing (SON) also have a vision and mission, which include helping you to make your own vision a reality. Members of your new academic community, such as faculty, support teams, and fellow students, can also be helpful. Current practitioners and other members of the professional community can also help you to clarify your vision.

This week’s Discussion asks you to think about how the Walden mission and vision and the School of Nursing (SON) mission and vision apply to your professional and academic goals. You will also begin to identify individuals and teams that can help you along the way, as you begin to design the “blueprint”—your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan—that will guide you toward your own vision for academic and professional success.

To Prepare:

• Review the Walden and the School of Nursing (SON) mission and vision statements, Walden’s goals and University Outcomes, and the MSN Program Learning Outcomes presented in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Reflect on your professional and academic goals as they relate to your program/specialization.
• Consider how the information in these resources fit with your own goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner.
• Also consider academic and professional individuals and teams that you may collaborate with in support of your efforts as a student at the University and as a professional within your organization and career.

 

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