Self-Reflection Nursing and culture sensitivity

There are no cultures that are superior to others within the social setting and the practices of each given community has specific reason for their existence hence the need to uphold such even within the nursing fraternity. This calls for culture sensitive nursing practices and behavior during the interaction between the nurse and the patient. Hitherto my learning on the nature of culturally sensitive nursing and its role in nursing, I viewed nursing as a practice and a profession that began and ended with the patient seeing the nurse for the particular illness and the nurse undertakes the routine checklist of the drugs administration. This however has changed and I realized that nursing is continuous and is interactive. It is continuous in a manner that even in the absence of the nurse, the interaction still goes on. If the nurse mishandled the patient or showed gestures of lack of care to the culture of the patient, the patient will remain with that image...

These then guides me in the interaction with the client and how to treat him in a daily basis. I realized that there are some clients who get more open and closer to me as a nurse when I first talk a little about their beliefs and in a positive manner. This comes in form of the current affairs or the current news touching on what the love or likes to talk about.
Showing respect for the culture of my clients, bearing that I meet patients from different races, helps me to have a cordial relationship with them. This is one of the mots complex things to achieve but inevitably the central idea in nursing. Understanding the cultural belief a patient…