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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Competency Differences of Associate and BSN Nurses Rhonda Dilks Grand Canyon University Professional Dynamics September 18‚ 2010 Competency Differences of Associate and BSN Nurses There are three educational pathways for registered nurses. One is a two year community college program‚ earning a student an associate degree in nursing (ADN)‚ a three year diploma program offered by hospitals and a four year university or college program‚ earning the student a bachelor’s of science degree
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Spitzberg and Cupach (1984) define communication competency as the ability to achieve your goals while you fulfill relational and situational expectations (as cited in Cupach & Canary‚ 1997). Spitzberg and Cupach contend that communication competency is primarily comprised of two dimensions‚ appropriateness (meeting social expectations and social rules) and effectiveness (achieving one’s goals). Understanding the individual’s role in cross-cultural communication has gained the attention of several
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Clean Harbors Inc. External Analysis Clean Harbors was founded in 1980 and is the largest hazardous waste disposal company in North America. They have four business segments: technical services‚ field services‚ industrial services‚ and exploratory services. Field services provide environmental cleanup services and emergency response environmental assistance. Its services involve the cleanup and restoration of buildings‚ equipment‚ and sites that have been contaminated by exposure to hazardous
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Cs4 My teaching practice helps meet this statement on having a positive‚ responsive‚ cooperative relationship with each child’s family by knowing each family members and greeting them by name. I am able to invite families to take part in program activities. I am able to help families understand the importance of play for children. I am also able to empathize with families around stressful areas of parenting‚ such as lack of sleep‚ illness‚ challenging behaviors and I am able to provide support
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Reflecting back over the last past eight weeks as provided me the experience to meet MSN program outcome # 7 and MSN Essential III‚ Nurse Practitioner Core Consequences #4 Practice Inquiry Competencies. This was accomplished by addressing clinical issues using case scenarios. It became apparent that the subjective data process was instrumental in identifying the key factors for determining differential diagnosis. Based on this information‚ it was possible to determine the physical examination areas
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Explain both the general principles of Utilitarianism and the distinctive features of Mill’s Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is a teleological and consequentialist theory as it focuses on whether an action is good or bad depending on the outcome‚ regardless of what the act may be. For example an act could be a horrible one‚ i.e. murder but if it brings about a good consequence it’s seen as a good act. J. Bentham devised the greatest happiness principle which states that an action is right if it results
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Educational Impact on Competencies of Nursing Practice To become a registered nurse‚ one can choose one of 3 pathways: First‚ go to one hospital to obtain a diploma which costs 3 year. Second‚ go to a community college to obtain an associate degree which usually costs 2 or 3 years. Third‚ go to a university to obtain a baccalaureate degree which costs 4 years. Then all graduates need passing a NCLEX-RN© licensing examination to obtain a RN license. Do the nurses through these 3 pathways have the
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Cultural Competency in Nursing NSG-2262 March 3rd‚ 2014 As nurses‚ we not only need to understand cultural competence‚ but we also have to be sure not to generalize groups of people. Each client is an individual‚ and it is important to form a therapeutic relationship so we can care for each specific client. Each client has his/her own needs; just because two people are of the same culture‚ it doesn’t mean that he/she believes in the same thing. In turn‚ nurses need to understand their
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In order to answer the question “are there critical periods for the development of social competency?” one must first clearly define the key elements of the question. A critical period is defined as a time when a certain development must happen if it is to ever happen (Strassen Berger‚ 2006). In psychology the term is most often associated with language acquisition as the critical period hypothesis popularised by Lenneberg (1967) hypothesised that language learned outside the critical period for
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