¶ … Ethics and Culture Annotated Bibliography

Ethical and Cultural Competency

Vanaki, Z., Memarian, A. (2009). Professional ethics: beyond the clinical competency. Journal of Professional Nursing, 25 (5), 285 -- 291

The author found that the professional ethics are the core determinants to perform a better duty at the workplace. The behavior of a person at work place helps in making relationship and bonds with the team members, responsibilities, the patients, the staff and helps in better understanding of workplace strategies that are termed as professional ethics. The researchers found that the personality of a person depends a lot on the expression of compassion, love, care and attention. The survey was done on the nurses working in the hospital where they explained that despite the cultural differences, if they make a bond or a relationship of care with the patients. That helps a lot in maintaining the confidence of the patient and its treatment towards the disease they are suffering from.

There is no doubt that personal characteristics do matter, but if the workplace is taking care of its employees in term of giving them facilities, trainings, the better equipment and work conditions, the caring management and respect. The employees will have the reciprocal respect and care for the organization.

The employees feel more responsible and determined to the work or responsibilities that have been assigned to them. When they feel responsible that will make them ethical in the workplace and with the people they are working with. They may be the team members or patients. So the professional ethics help the nurses or other employees have the clinical competency or exhibiting a good and compassionate behavior towards the clients.

Altmiller, G., Gurten, L. (2009). The Moral Dilemma of Cultural Competence. Pa Nurse 64

(20), 20-1

The authors found that health care units or the organizations must have transcultural aspect in the organizations. Though nurses are of the view that they treat their patients first as a human, then they see anything else. But if they infuse the element of cultural competence. That will obviously enhance the relationship of care at both the ends, the patient and the nurses.

The health care system is the most valuable system in which care and love play a vital role in treatment. If biases are played there, the overall system may collapse. The respect of culture enhances the communication process, value to each other, and a good behavior makes the patient humble even in the severe pain or agony.

Johnson, Y.M., & Munch, S. (2009). Fundamental contradictions in cultural competence.

Social Work, 54 (3), 220-231.

The researchers argued that the cultural competence is a term that refers to behave in a good way to every individual, who may belong to a different race, ethnicity or demographic. They found that the social work trends are at the odds of this society. The contradictions no more exist relevant to the way people living today. The people from different religion, race, culture, ethnicity are living together, being friends with each other, behaving in a civilized manner with each other.

The immigrants, who come from different country starts living in the different communities, they are facing no issues of adaptability. Everyone is following the cultural competence. The way people used to have a difference of opinion and contradiction 30 years back is no more existing. The extent of globalization has made the trends and aware the people to accept with differences. The globalization has made people to understand and respect the personal and private life of everyone.

The researchers found four major contradictions that social work people must get training of. The first is when the social work person tries to cater any person they must know the culture and ethnicity of that person prior when they are going to cater them. The social work people should not divide people into different classes. The client should be a client whether they are from upper, middle or lower class. The third contradiction is the social work team must be trained in order to respect every social group and respect the individual rights. The fourth contradiction is the training and educating the social work to achieve the good behavior and treatment of people belonging to different groups of societies.

Gilbert, K., Bhandari, M., W. (2011). Cultural competency in health care. Web sites for health care providers and educators.

The researchers...

Different cultures have different standards of living; they have a different way of thinking, even eating and the type of care they demand and need. The United States has turned to be a global market in which people from different backgrounds are present. The concept of globalization reflects the sense of equality that is treating different people equally and fairly. The health care department is one of the biggest areas which need to be protected from the prejudices of cultural inequalities. It is a very sad to know that American being the global country with Asians, Africans, Indians, Blacks, people from Alaska and much more.
There is a need to fill the gap of disparity, gap of differences, a gap of misconceptions and gap of inequality. Minorities are suffering in the medical treatment but the poor group is also suffering in this field. A survey was done and the results showed up that white people living in the United States are getting better treatment than the people of other color. Even the rich or the people with high income are getting and receiving better treatments than the people who are poor. The class and the color differences must be avoided due to being a global society.

McEldowney, R., Connor, M., J. (2011). Cultural Safety as an Ethic of Care: A Praxiological Process. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 22(4), 342 -- 349

The authors found that the in order to protect the culture and behavior of individuals, there is a need to practice the ethical behavior. Ethics are the normative behavior exhibited by an individual while interaction. Especially when a person is working in the field of care such as health related organizations. Health care organizations have the liability to be humble, calm and enthusiastic about the patient's health. There is always a need of competent nurses to provide better services to the patient so he or she might feel better. Because when a good behavior is exhibited, it shows that a person is not being biased to cultures or ethnicity or class and he or she is valuing the client or a patient who needs your help and a good behavior so he or she gets open up to you. Apart from treating the behavior matters a lot. A few soothing words can make the patient forget his pain because he or she feels that they are in secure hands and there is no need to worry.

When a nurse is going through examining the patient they are in need to exhibit wisdom, good behavior and compassion towards him or her. This will make the patient comfortable and relax with the nurses and the treatments they are going through. The compassionate behavior is the key to control patient even if he is sick for long and in distress for months. This all can be exhibited by open communication without any barriers. The nurses or the clients are supposed to interact with the patient in good manner with no biases of cultures, ethnicity or demographic location.

Siegel, C., Haugland, G., Rose, L.R., Reid, L., Hopper, K. (2011). Components of Cultural Competence in Three Mental Health Programs. Psychiatric services, 62 (6).

The researchers have worked really hard and try to have a look at every aspect of the three cultural communities such as African-American, Afro-Caribbean youth and a Latino adult for the treatment of their mental illness. The researchers found that the program to train the staff, in the way patient needs or requires is important to make patient improve in the given time period. Especially when the races and ethnicity comes to play.

It is very important to train the staff in cultural dimensions a patient belongs. Because every culture has its own dimension of care and healing things. Such as Trust building helps in making the bonds with the patient and can eliminate the complex in the patient's mind, that he is having this mental illness as the punishment of his bad deeds. Because mental illness is seen as a curse in some cultures. So the staff must be trained in order to be a liaison between patient and family, between patient and staff to take the patient out of this mental stressful condition.

The moral support is very much required which can be build with the patient by avoiding the fact he is black or white or belong so some other ethnicity. Mental health is a psychiatric issue, the researchers found that if the patient is given friendly environment such as playing different games, family involvement, if staff behaves friendly and not making the patient guilty especially if the patient is African or Latino or Caribbean that will…