Diverse Patients Flashcards
What are some factors that can affect access to care for vulnerable populations?
Access to transport, Accessibility to health care, health insurance, religion, geographic location, sensory deficits, physical disabilities, mental health, cognitive disabilities, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity
Questions that can be included in a cultural assessment based on Leinniger’s Sunrise Enabler
Who is your support system?
Do you have access to a phone, internet, and/or computer?
Do you have access to transportation? What kind?
How do you typically spend your days?
What type of housing do you live in?
Who is the nursing theorist who devised the Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality, as well as the sunrise enabler
Madeline Leininger
Socioeconomic factors that can affect access to care for vulnerable populations
Education level, employment status, household income, poverty status
What are the types of knowledge necessary for cultural competence?
Emic and Etic knowledge
Modes of culturally competent care?
Culture care preservation and maintenance, culture care accommodation and/or regulation, culture care repatterning and restructuring
Describe nursing care that is evidence-based and in agreement with the preferred values, worldview, beliefs, and practices of the individuals seeking health care?
ANA standard & Culturally Congruent Practice
Demographic factors that can affect access to care for vulnerable populations?
Age, English language proficiency versus use of another language, household type, population density, race and ethnicity, sex
Groups identified as vulnerable populations
Immigrants, older adults, marginalized ethnic groups, individuals experiencing poverty, clients who have chronic illnesses, and veterans
What is an an example of an inclusive environment?
An organized support group for clients who identify as lesbian or gay
Health status factors that can affect access to care for vulnerable populations?
Chronic health conditions, disabilities, health insurance status.
A tool the nurse should use when planning and providing culturally appropriate competent nursing care?
Cultural health assessment
A professional whom a nurse should contact when providing health information to a client who speaks a different language than the nurse?
A medical interpreter
