Cultural beliefs have presented a significant challenge in caring for people with different cultural beliefs and practices. Some of the patients or people might not agree with providing them with particular care, stating that it is against their culture. Therefore, it is upon the medical practitioners to design ways to provide such care to the above-diversified group without many difficulties and ensure that their health and safety are paramount. One of how APN can reduce the rate of decline in care by diversified groups is to use a culture assessment tool which will help in discovering the various types of beliefs of a culture and to formulate appropriate ways in which a nurse can provide care without violating them (Jurchak et al., 2017). Assessment tools prevent stereotyping of the culture by conversely leaning on one side and giving a blind eye to the surrounding environment of the diversification of culture.

Several ways can help improve the cultural competency of the APN, including improving communication and language barrier, engaging in cross-cultural interactions with the patients, participating in online chats, and obtaining a certificate in cultural competence (Foster, 2017). All these methods will make a patient be at ease and what an APN can do or cannot do when it comes to administering care to the diverse culture.

Moreover, communications and interactions will help in building trust and rapport between the patients and the APN. APN can use this to their advantage and educate the patients on the importance of a specific type of care and medications. It will help the patient understand that if there were another way of care that doesn’t necessarily go against the culture, it would have been used. An APN can be competent in identifying the culture and finding ways in which quality care can be provided without much resistance from the different diversified cultures with certain beliefs.

References

Foster, P., (2017). Champions of cultural safety: an exploration of how cultural safety can be implemented as a routine aspect of health care. University of British Columbia,

Jurchak, M., Grace, P.J., Lee, S.M., Willis, D.G., (2017). Developing abilities to navigate through the grey zones in complex environments: nurses’ reasons for applying to a clinical ethics residency for nurses. Journal of Nursing Scholarship 49 (4), 445-455