communication principles and techniques to facilitate interaction with patients of diverse cultures and in multiple settings.
To accomplish these goals students will perform a cultural assessment of their community and submit a community cultural diversity essay.
Essential Items Which Must Be Included:
Identify cultural groups in your community.
Compare and contrast local statistics and national statistics of all groups identified.
Discuss health programs and resources that the address the cultural care needs for the various cultural groups in your community
Discuss healthcare needs of one of the cultural groups identified – illness/disease process specific to this population.
Discuss the health programs which address the needs of the one chosen cultural group and illness/disease process
Identify gaps in health programs or resources and provide suggestions to improve cultural care needs for your community.
Discuss which theoretical model (Purnell, Giger Davidhizar, Campinha-Bacote, Leinginger) would be best used to address the needs of the one cultural group identified in this essay.
Provide a conclusion paragraph – what new knowledge was gained, how you will use this knowledge in your practice, etc.
You must have peer reviewed articles for this essay. Government websites may provide your statistics but are in addition to the five peer reviewed article requirement. In addition, it is expected that you would use your Purnell text chapters 6-24 as they relate to your community people groups and the articles provided for each specific theory or model.
APA 6th edition format is to be used to write your paper. Please review the RN BSN Orientation shell for information on how to format your paper and the essential elements of an APA paper i.e., title page, headings, correct intext citations, and a correctly formatted reference page.
No Abstract needed.
Make sure you have an introduction, body, and summary/conclusion to your paper. You are encouraged to use the assignment criteria as headings for your paper.
Faculty is looking for quality of content and assignment criteria completeness – paper should be no greater than 5 pages (excluding title page and reference page).
