effectively address cultural issues. To understand the diverse cultural backgrounds of clients‚ nurses must strive to be culturally competent (Marcinkiw 2003). Cultural competence requires the building of cultural awareness‚ knowledge‚ skill‚ encounters‚ and desire in the nurse. Clients will feel respected‚ valued‚ and have a greater desire to achieve mutually agreed upon health care goals if the nurse is culturally competent. The purpose of this essay is designed to show the cultural competence in the
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CULTURAL TOURISM First of all‚ it is important to define cultural tourism as the basis around which the whole research is formulated. It is important to highlight the fact that the experts do not agree on a universal definition because of the wide range of activities it covers. Over the years‚ the definition of this type of tourism has suffer some changes depending on the field of study and one of the most popular definitions is the one stated by Richards (2001‚ p.37) in which the concept of
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Cultural Misunderstandings Darcy Lingg PSYC3540 – Culture‚ Ethnicity & Diversity Capella University March 2014 My example of a cultural misunderstanding is between a doctor and a Chinese patient. Are you drinking plenty of fluids? < Patient thoughts: I wonder why he is asking me that‚ what it is with these people and water > I don’t like the water here. It’s too cold. I don’t know what’s wrong with people here that they drink that. Really??? And what happens when you drink the
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Cultural Competency I approached a social worker who works with a charity organization. The organization helps children from different cultural background who due to poverty they cannot afford basic needs such as place to stay‚ education and food. The organization comes to their aid by providing the basic necessities to them. The organization tends to deal with children from diverse cultural backgrounds. As a result a number of challenges are faced when dealing with the children. In order to
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Assignment For Cultural tourism in Nepal Impact on culture by tourism Shobha Kumari Karki Khatri Advance diploma Management research report Ethame graduate school Submission date:- 29th August 2011 CTH No. 24310 Acknowledge Firstly my big thanks is deserve to my college Ethames Graduate School which provide me a opportunities to be a part of the college. And I would like to express my deep respective thanks
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Cultural Safety Principles Assignment BNKH501 Z Group 2010001919 29/03/12 Monigue Dalziel 1610 words Garrod‚ A. (2002). Cultural safety: Living with a disability. Whitireia Nursing Journal‚ 9‚ 14-19. Every unique person living with a disability is part of a wider disability culture. This culture shares their experiences‚ values‚ beliefs and their general ways of life. Within a population‚ the disability culture has minimal power due to being the minority. Annette Garrod reminds us about
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February 4‚ 2011 Cultural Competence in Physical Therapy Practice To be culturally competent physical therapists need to understand their own world view and those of the patient‚ while avoiding stereotyping and misapplication of scientific knowledge (cross‚ et al. 1989). Therapists must take into account eight characteristics that involve the dimensions of diversity: age‚ race‚ gender‚ sexual orientation‚ ethnicity‚ mental and physical activity‚ religion and socioeconomic status. But before they
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CULTURAL VALUES AND PERSONAL ETHICS PAPER Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper Nipa Khatlawala University of Phoenix Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper Personal‚ organizational‚ and cultural values are the basis of an individual ’s personal and professional decision-making style. These values are the key ingredients that make up our core beliefs. Values are ideas that are actions which could be right or wrong‚ good or bad that are the basis of human action (Tosi 2000). Personal
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Cultural Diffusion and its Influence on Europe and Sub Saharan Africa Both Europe and Sub Saharan Africa was and still is a melting pot consisted of a blend of races and cultures that has integrated into a cohesive whole. Take The Melting Pot restaurant as an example; The rich blend of the chocolate sauces can resemble a specific culture such as strawberry‚ white‚ dark‚ raspberry‚ etcetera‚ but when they are mixed together‚ the melting pot creates a swirl that symbolizes the blending of one culture
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“Cultural Norms” By: Tiffany Rushing Cultural norms are behavior patterns that are typical of specific groups. (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory) We have cultural norms due to how we do things as a country‚ the community we live in‚ and how our families do things. We learn at very young ages what is considered normal‚ which is what a cultural norm is. One of our country’s cultural norms is the emphasis on promptness
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