Cultural Sensitivity In Health Care

Professional Communication Cultural Sensitivity Professional communication requires skillful consideration of words, actions, and sensitivity to diverse cultures to achieve the best outcomes for health care teams and patients. This may also include evaluating beliefs and practices related to health promotion and illness prevention, educational level, family structure, roles and support and communication preferences (Denisco & Barker, 2016). Cultural competence is the key to thriving in the culturally diverse world. It has increased consideration as an impending strategy to expand the quality and eradicate cultural and/or ethnicity discrepancies in healthcare (Denisco & Barker, 2010). This scholar selected the Haitian cultural group not only because of the ethical background but also because in the United
Upon developing a plan of care for Haitian client, provider should identify practices and preferences characterized to this ethnic group mostly their religious and spiritual awareness, and their privacy. Nurses should provide with devotional articles, sacred music. Music is a part of all cultures and religious tradition, especially to relieve stress (Colin, 2014).
Language barrier, Hospitals recognized the need for professional interpreting services in order to overcome this barrier in communication. The use of professional interpreting services (physically or via telecom- telephone operators) have increased patient satisfaction, better patient outcomes, decreased adverse incidents which, in turn, limiting malpractice risks.
Overall, the populace operated will define the culturally sensitive means to use for teaching. Assessment of a client's preferred learning approach is essential to facilitate the learning