“Providing Culture-Sensitive Healthcare to Hispanic/Latino Patients” A Hispanic patient with a high fever may resist cold compress because their theory of “hot” and “cold” imbalance. They use hot things to cure cold and cold thing to cure the body being “hot”. For instance within the American medical field we use heat foe hot. If you’re running a fever things that makes you sweat it out are better. So the difficulties that the Hispanic patient will bring is simply not following the physician’s
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reality‚ it has the power to send messages to audiences everywhere. To a certain degree‚ U.S. government understood this power and made a good attempt at depicting Latin Americans in a better light‚ even if their reasons behind weren’t to inspire Latinos of aiming higher in life. All the beautiful women discussed in this paper have experienced the same obstacles‚ accepting to play these stereotypical roles in hopes they can attain the fame required to gain power and respect in Hollywood. For Jennifer
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For one who plans on having a career in the medical field‚ is bound to have patients come in who’s allegation may not always be true due to tests contradicting their information. These are the types of situation where‚ as a physician‚ one needs to be careful in order to prevent making the patient angry or in some cases embarrassed. As physicians‚ it is our job to make sure that our patients feel they can be trusted and respected at the same time. Personally‚ I need to make sure that all of the information
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individuals to mind—the courageous person imposing‚ heroic‚ probably male‚ and the patient person quiet‚ reserved‚ quite likely female. (After all‚ Ancient Greek courage simply was the virtue of manliness (andreia)‚ and the Victorians used to name their daughters Patience.) Some of our images of courage may even positively conflict with some of our images of patience‚ with the courageous person insisting upon action while the patient person implores him to wait. In his wonderful paper‚ "Patience and Courage"
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Patient scenario The patient Mr. Smith was diagnosed with prostate cancer 5 years ago. It seemed as if his condition was worsening so he visited his physician who performed a physical examination on him. A physical examination has many components they include observing the signs of a disease by checking for signals like change in skin pigment or alertness. Then there is checking vital signs such as blood pressure‚ heart rate and temperature by comparing your results to a standard. Next step the
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1.)What type of reaction is the health care provider concerned about and why? Being that E.O has never been prescribed penicillin; her healthcare provider is concerned that she may be allergic to the antibiotic. Penicillin is an antibiotic that is used to treat many bacterial infections in the body. People with asthma and a history of any type of allergy should be monitored very closely when taking penicillin for the first time and should be given the right dose to safely take the antibiotic. An
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opportunity of teaching on my own anywhere so far. However‚ the only opportunity that I used to be a teacher assistance volunteer for a research with the NYU‚ focusing on Latino from 5-10 years old and the chances to attend superior education. I observed several issues with children‚ nevertheless there was this particular child (Latino) who used several times “I hate black people” I was shocked‚ the child did not even want to sit close to black students. This particular child have a strong personality
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INDISPENSABLE 2 Empathy - An Indispensable Ingredient Is empathy a productive tool to develop effective patient provider communication? How does empathy influence active listening in therapeutic care settings? What role‚ if any‚ does empathy play in the delivery of cultural competent health care? This paper will examine the positive impact of empathy in establishing trusting patient-provider therapeutic relationships and the benefits of "putting oneself into another ’s shoes." While "empathy
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Hospice Care 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Definition 1.1.1 Hospice Care Hospice care refers to an exceptional program that offers care services to individuals who are fatally ill and their family members. It is offered to patients who have been acknowledged by doctors as having completely exhausted all forms of cure there is and they are destined to die. These services include mental‚ emotional‚ spiritual physical and medical support which are aimed at ensuring maximum comfort and hope to the
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Hispanic/Latino Americans faced many different unfair treatments from Anglo-Europeans. First beginning with the conquering of their land‚ then the denial of citizenship‚ and finally‚ the unequal education rights. American basically used Hispanics for their own benefit. For example‚ they allowed them to fight in the American military yet‚ they still weren’t granted citizenship. 2. What did reading the chapter make you think about? It made me think about how Americans used the Hispanic/Latino Americans
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