Hispanic Cultural Assessment
HISPANICS: A CULTURAL
ASSESSMENT
PRESENTATION
Thomas J Robinson
NUR/542
Sandra Brown
March 10, 2014
Presentation Overview
Using the Transcultural Nursing Model, this presentation will attempt to :
◦ Describe the cultural group known as Hispanics
◦ Describe the health beliefs of Hispanics as they relate to health and illness
◦ Describe specific health needs of Hispanics
◦ Describe methods to manage health needs of Hispanics
◦ Self-management of diseases
◦ Relationship with healthcare system
◦ Traditional treatments
◦ Describe the dominant health practices of Hispanics and their relationship with the health care system ◦ Discuss the usefulness of the Transcultural Nursing Theory in evaluation of the culture of Hispanics
◦ Discuss all these concerns in relation to the perspective of Virginia Ochoa, RN
Leininger’s Theory of Transcultural Nursing
◦ Developed by Dr. Madeleine Leininger
◦ Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
◦ Stresses emic knowledge
◦ Knowledge of culture based on direct experiences or learned from someone with direct experience
◦ V. Ochoa, RN has emic knowledge
◦ Human care central to nursing
◦ Care is universal among cultures
◦ Care is the provision of health and support to those in need
◦ Cultures vary in practices
◦ Learned and shared values of a group of people that instructs their way of life over the course of generations ◦ Nurses must practice cultural sensitive care
◦ Must allow for patient’s cultural expression
◦ Comparative study of cultures to understand similarities and differences (Leininger, 1991)
Meet Virginia Ochoa Aguado,
RN
◦ Registered Nurse
◦ Graduated from University of Massachusetts at Amherst with BSN
◦ 5 years of working as a Labor and Delivery Nurse in MA
◦ Recently moved to North Carolina to be closer to husband’s family
◦ Hispanic origins
◦ Bilingual
◦ Mother is from Ecuador, Father is Mexican
◦ Born in United State, grew up in Northeast
◦ Roman Catholic
◦ Family oriented
(Ochoa Aguado, 2013)
◦ Sees
ASSESSMENT
PRESENTATION
Thomas J Robinson
NUR/542
Sandra Brown
March 10, 2014
Presentation Overview
Using the Transcultural Nursing Model, this presentation will attempt to :
◦ Describe the cultural group known as Hispanics
◦ Describe the health beliefs of Hispanics as they relate to health and illness
◦ Describe specific health needs of Hispanics
◦ Describe methods to manage health needs of Hispanics
◦ Self-management of diseases
◦ Relationship with healthcare system
◦ Traditional treatments
◦ Describe the dominant health practices of Hispanics and their relationship with the health care system ◦ Discuss the usefulness of the Transcultural Nursing Theory in evaluation of the culture of Hispanics
◦ Discuss all these concerns in relation to the perspective of Virginia Ochoa, RN
Leininger’s Theory of Transcultural Nursing
◦ Developed by Dr. Madeleine Leininger
◦ Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
◦ Stresses emic knowledge
◦ Knowledge of culture based on direct experiences or learned from someone with direct experience
◦ V. Ochoa, RN has emic knowledge
◦ Human care central to nursing
◦ Care is universal among cultures
◦ Care is the provision of health and support to those in need
◦ Cultures vary in practices
◦ Learned and shared values of a group of people that instructs their way of life over the course of generations ◦ Nurses must practice cultural sensitive care
◦ Must allow for patient’s cultural expression
◦ Comparative study of cultures to understand similarities and differences (Leininger, 1991)
Meet Virginia Ochoa Aguado,
RN
◦ Registered Nurse
◦ Graduated from University of Massachusetts at Amherst with BSN
◦ 5 years of working as a Labor and Delivery Nurse in MA
◦ Recently moved to North Carolina to be closer to husband’s family
◦ Hispanic origins
◦ Bilingual
◦ Mother is from Ecuador, Father is Mexican
◦ Born in United State, grew up in Northeast
◦ Roman Catholic
◦ Family oriented
(Ochoa Aguado, 2013)
◦ Sees
References: ◦ Bean, M.G., Stone, J., Moskowitz, G.B., Badger, T. A., & Focella, E.S. (2013). Evidence of nonconscious stereotyping of Hispanic patients by nursing and medical students ◦ Donta, A. (2001). The Hispanic Population of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research. ◦ Freidman, M. M., Bowden, V. R., & Jones, E. G. (2003). Family nursing: Research, theory, and practice (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ; Prentice Hall ◦ JAMARDA resources. (2005). Cultural, Ethnic, and Religious Reference Manual for Health Care Providers (3.0) [Computer Software] ◦ Leadership for Healthy Communities. (2010) Overweight and obesity among Latino youths. Retrieved from http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/web-assets/2010/05/overweight-and-obesity-among-latino-youths ◦ Leininger, M.M. (1991) Culture care diversity and universality: A theory of nursing. New York: National League for Nursing. ◦ Knoerl, A. M. (2007). Cultural considerations and the Hispanic cardiac client. Home Healthcare Nurse, 25(2). p 82-86 ◦ Ochoa Aguado, V https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=662806463598&set=pb.22701433.-2207520000.1394468777.&type=3&theater ◦ US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health. (2012). Hispanic/Latino Profile. Retrieved from