Cultural Diversity Incident Analysis
Culture and Diversity assignment
This assignment is going to focus and explore an incident that happened whilst the writer was on placement. My last placement was in the acute dementia ward with elderly mainly over sixty-fives. The majority of the patients were white British whilst females were more than males. The writer will concentrate more on issues around cultural diversity and competences during the placement. The ACCESS model of cultural competence which was invented by Narayanasamy (1998) is going to be used. The acronym ACCESS represents (A)ssessments, (C)ommunication, (C)ultural negotiation and compromise, (E)stablishing respect and rapport, (S)ensetivity, and (S)afety. The writer will discuss about the issues around the incident and what his opinions were about …show more content…
In: Andrews M M, Boyle J S Transcultural concepts in nursing care, 2nd edn. Lippincott, Philadelphia.
• Kenworthy, N. Snowley, G. Gilling, C. (2002) Common Foundation Studies in Nursing. 3rd edn. Churchhill, livingstone. London.
• Nursing and Midwifery Council (2004). Code of Professional Conduct: Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting. London: NMC.
• Nursing and Midwifery Council (2005). Guidelines for professional practice. London: NMC.
• M and Lees. S (2004). Promoting cultural competence in healthcare through a research- based intervention in the UK. Diversity in Health and Social Care. 1 pp. 107-115
• Papadopoulos, I. (2006) the Papadopoulos, Tilki and Taylor Model of developing Cultural Competence. In Papadopoulos, I. Ed Transcultural Health and social care Development of Cultural competent Practitioners. Livingstone: Churchill pp. 7-26
• Polaschek N, R (2001). Cultural safety: a new concept in nursing people of different ethnicities. Journal of Advanced Nursing 27 (3) pp.452-457
• Rawaf, S and Bahl, V. (1998). Assessing health needs of people from minority ethnic groups. Royal college of Physicians.
This assignment is going to focus and explore an incident that happened whilst the writer was on placement. My last placement was in the acute dementia ward with elderly mainly over sixty-fives. The majority of the patients were white British whilst females were more than males. The writer will concentrate more on issues around cultural diversity and competences during the placement. The ACCESS model of cultural competence which was invented by Narayanasamy (1998) is going to be used. The acronym ACCESS represents (A)ssessments, (C)ommunication, (C)ultural negotiation and compromise, (E)stablishing respect and rapport, (S)ensetivity, and (S)afety. The writer will discuss about the issues around the incident and what his opinions were about …show more content…
In: Andrews M M, Boyle J S Transcultural concepts in nursing care, 2nd edn. Lippincott, Philadelphia.
• Kenworthy, N. Snowley, G. Gilling, C. (2002) Common Foundation Studies in Nursing. 3rd edn. Churchhill, livingstone. London.
• Nursing and Midwifery Council (2004). Code of Professional Conduct: Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting. London: NMC.
• Nursing and Midwifery Council (2005). Guidelines for professional practice. London: NMC.
• M and Lees. S (2004). Promoting cultural competence in healthcare through a research- based intervention in the UK. Diversity in Health and Social Care. 1 pp. 107-115
• Papadopoulos, I. (2006) the Papadopoulos, Tilki and Taylor Model of developing Cultural Competence. In Papadopoulos, I. Ed Transcultural Health and social care Development of Cultural competent Practitioners. Livingstone: Churchill pp. 7-26
• Polaschek N, R (2001). Cultural safety: a new concept in nursing people of different ethnicities. Journal of Advanced Nursing 27 (3) pp.452-457
• Rawaf, S and Bahl, V. (1998). Assessing health needs of people from minority ethnic groups. Royal college of Physicians.