Cultural Presentation
Cultural Presentation: Native Americans –Eastern Cherokee
What are the top 5 things a nurse or health care provider would need to know about someone that identifies with this culture?
1. Results of this study suggested that providers and patients often left the medical encounter with significantly different perceptions of “what happened” during the visit. This discordance was most often a result of the patients’ tendency to evaluate provider behavior more positively than did the providers (Garroutte, Sarkisian, Goldberg, Buchwald, & Beals, 2008).
2. One article mentioned that providers should pay special attention to interactions involving information exchange with their American Indian patients. This could involve asking these patients for guidance on how to accomplish tasks more smoothly for patients who strongly identify with American Indian culture. The results of the study suggested that patients’ cultural identities are important to medical interaction (Garroutte, Sarkisian, Goldberg, Buchwald, & Beals, 2008).
3. They need to know that Cherokee are at higher risk for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. This is very helpful so doctors and nurses know what to assess (Lowe, Riggs, Henson, Elder, & Liehr, 2009).
4. They also are at a higher risk for substance control so nurses and doctors need to be aware that withdrawal may be an issue (Lowe, Riggs, Henson, Elder, & Liehr, 2009).
5. Using culturally specific models such as the Cherokee Self Reliance model can be used to in planning and implementing programs for care (Lowe, 2008).
The Cherokee had a matrilineal society, a social system in which their descent was traced strictly through their mother's side of the family. The most important man in the life of any Cherokee child was their mother's brother. Discipline and instruction in hunting and warfare rested not with the child's father, but with his maternal uncle.
The Cherokee people believe that decisions
What are the top 5 things a nurse or health care provider would need to know about someone that identifies with this culture?
1. Results of this study suggested that providers and patients often left the medical encounter with significantly different perceptions of “what happened” during the visit. This discordance was most often a result of the patients’ tendency to evaluate provider behavior more positively than did the providers (Garroutte, Sarkisian, Goldberg, Buchwald, & Beals, 2008).
2. One article mentioned that providers should pay special attention to interactions involving information exchange with their American Indian patients. This could involve asking these patients for guidance on how to accomplish tasks more smoothly for patients who strongly identify with American Indian culture. The results of the study suggested that patients’ cultural identities are important to medical interaction (Garroutte, Sarkisian, Goldberg, Buchwald, & Beals, 2008).
3. They need to know that Cherokee are at higher risk for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. This is very helpful so doctors and nurses know what to assess (Lowe, Riggs, Henson, Elder, & Liehr, 2009).
4. They also are at a higher risk for substance control so nurses and doctors need to be aware that withdrawal may be an issue (Lowe, Riggs, Henson, Elder, & Liehr, 2009).
5. Using culturally specific models such as the Cherokee Self Reliance model can be used to in planning and implementing programs for care (Lowe, 2008).
The Cherokee had a matrilineal society, a social system in which their descent was traced strictly through their mother's side of the family. The most important man in the life of any Cherokee child was their mother's brother. Discipline and instruction in hunting and warfare rested not with the child's father, but with his maternal uncle.
The Cherokee people believe that decisions