Using Cultural Competency in Practice Cultural competencies is a term that has long saturated the healthcare world‚ especially nursing. The United States has become a melting pot of culture and ethnicity and to practice in the hospital setting it is essential to know the backgrounds of your patients and their families. Different cultures have different perceptions on health and illness. Providing culturally competent care includes knowledge about subcultures‚ attitudes‚ and skills that’s supports
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Identify 4 issues that you believe she will need to address to fully achieve cultural integration into the expectations of an RN on your unit? Be sure to incorporate information from all three required readings in your issue identification. 1. The nurse may face a language barrier that could hinder her performance. In the United States we use a lot of slang and there are different meanings for some of the same words. Struggling with a language barrier can be very difficult for a foreign nurse because
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A REPORT ON THE POSTION OF CASTLE NURSING HOME PLC Executive Summary: This report is commissioned to examine the current position of Castle Nursing Home PLC‚ since it is evident that the top-line and bottom-line have been adversely affected. The report draws attention to the existing status of Castle Nursing Home. The strategy to grow and re-organize has resulted in the need to streamline its operations‚ so as to retain its focus‚ quality of services and reputation among the public. Further investigation
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Running head: ELDER ABUSE IN NURSING HOME SETTING 1 PAGE 10 ELDER ABUSE IN NURSING HOME SETTING Elder Abuse In Nursing Home Setting YourFirstName YourLastName University title ? Elder Abuse in Nursing Home Setting INTRODUCTION Elder abuse can be defined as the infliction of injury by a care giver in an unreasonable manner; may involve intimidation‚ confinement or punishment that results in mental anguish/mental illness‚ physical pain/harm. Physical abuse includes striking an
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all nurses and doctors‚ in all nursing homes‚ are as friendly and caring to elders such as my grandmother. Elder abuse in nursing homes is a big issue due to the emotional‚ physical and finical problem it causes to that elderly person. Many people believe that its easy taking advantage of an elder and it’s not going to hurt them‚ but it
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Nursing Home Industry Alfredia Williams Grantham University: AH511 August 28‚ 2013 Nursing home industry provides residential care for people with a chronic illness or disability. The care is continual to individuals who require help with activities of daily living. Nursing home facilities supply rooms‚ meals‚ social activities‚ personal care‚ 24-hour nursing supervision and access to medical services when needed. There are three types of nursing facilities in the United States: Intermediate
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refers to the technical competency of medical and quasi-medical services (CITATION). Quality of care in nursing homes‚ even with all the substantial regulatory oversight‚ still remained problematic. There are however steps that can be taken to improve and promote quality of care in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Nursing Homes Nursing homes serve as a home for individuals who might need to be assisted with activities of daily
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that CMS/DHHS revised regulations on environment in 2009: “The intent of the word “homelike” in this regulation is that the nursing home should provide an environment as close to that of the environment of a private home as possible.” If ‘homelike’ is a goal: preferred view‚ the press and the power of language to create culture are three things that stand to help nursing home staff to maximize an elder resident’s autonomy and quality of life.‚‚ A conscious effort to understand these things gives clinically
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it comes actually being placed or living in a nursing home. After working at a couple of private owned nursing facilities and two state funded nursing facilities I was able to see first hand the difference in the two. This also allowed me to eradicate these so called questions or myths. According to a reprint from the American Health Care Association; "Many myths‚ or misconceptions‚ persist about nursing facility life. In the past decade‚ nursing facilities‚ like all areas of health care‚ have
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Director would need to have knowledge of motivational theories. The motivational theories which could help me as the Managing Director introduce policies and practices which can increase the motivation and productivity of the employees will be discussed in detail. There have been many studies carried out to answer the question if motivation can increase performance?’ and different motivation theories have had different affects on staff performance and motivation. Therefore I would need to analyse
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