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¶ … Competencies
Among the Core Competencies for nursing educational components provided by the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education, "Patient-Centered Care" is listed first. The important task for nursing students in this component is to provide:
"…holistic care" that fully recognizes "an individual's preferences, values and needs," and also "respects the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate, coordinated, age and culturally appropriate safe, and effective care (MACN).
Within this milieu, the student should be assessing healthcare needs "through the patient's eyes" and the student should be respecting and encouraging the patient's opinions and decisions relative to his or her care (MACN). The student should fully understand the "multiple dimensions of patient-centered care" which includes: a) understanding the preferences and values of the patient and the patient's family; b) coordinating the integration of the care; c) providing physical and emotional comfort and support; c) communicating the patient's values, needs and preferences to other members of the healthcare support...
rt team; d) assessing the values and needs of the patent through "clinical review, implementation of care plan, and evaluation of care" (MACN).
Moreover, a student nurse focusing on a unit in "Patient-Centered Care" should: a) show respect for the diversity of the "human experience"; b) meet the holistic needs no matter the ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic or spiritual values and beliefs of the patient; c) initiate treatments to relieve pain and suffering "…in light of patient values, preferences, and expressed needs"; and d) appreciates and understands the effects of health and social policies on those individuals from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds (MACN).
Research Questions related to a Patient-Centered Care task (the nurse appreciates and understands the effects of health and social policies on those individuals from diverse ethnic, spiritual, socioeconomic, social, and cultural backgrounds).
ONE: How does a nurse interact with the family of a recent immigrant (from Malaysia) whose cultural values are vastly different, who don't speak English, and whose family member / patient suffers from anxiety…
Works Cited
Kleiman, S. (2006). Discovering Cultural Aspects of Nurse-Patient Relationships. Journal of Cultural Diversity, 13(2), 83-87.
Ludwick, R., and Silva, M.C. (2000). Ethics: Nursing Around the World: Cultural Values and Ethical Conflicts. The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 5(3).
Massachusetts Association of Colleges of Nursing (MACN). Creativity and Connections:
Building the Framework for the Future of Nursing Education and Practice. Retrieved April 17, 2014, from http://www.mass.edu.
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