HLT 324V: Transcultural Health Care (HLT324V)

Some parents are refraining from giving certain immunizations to their children. How will this affect diseases in the United States in the future? How as medical professionals can we embrace these nontraditional practices?

If you were caring for a child who could be cured if given blood transfusions, but whose parents refused permission to give the transfusions due to religious beliefs, what would you do?

Research different popular nontraditional health care practices. Write a 1,000-1,200-word paper exploring nontraditional health care practices and include the following: 1. Describe nontraditional health care practices in different cultures. Compare at least three cultures. 2. Explain the importance of these practices in providing holistic and quality health care. 3. Identify the nontraditional health care options in your areas, and identify the number of people choosing to use them over trad...

Select a culture other than your own and explore their death rituals. Using Ray’s Transcultural Communicative Spiritual-Ethical CARING Tool from Chapter 6 page 179, discuss how you would adapt your nursing care in this culturally dynamic situation.

Describe the spectrum of death and dying rituals and practices across cultures. Why are death and dying rituals so significant?

Allied health professionals are confronted with different death and dying practices. An effective allied health professional recognizes the importance of understanding different cultural practices, and learns how to evaluate the death, dying, and spiritual beliefs and practices across the cultures. Read the two specified case histories and choose one for this assignment. Identify your role as a healthcare professional in supporting Abby's or Shanti's dying rituals, and in creating strategies...

What factors influencing nutritional practices in the United States could be changed to improve health?

Examine the high-risk nutritional behaviors associated with different cultures. Identify the historical perspectives, belief systems, and other factors associated with these high-risk nutritional behaviors for each culture. Write a 1,500-3,000-word paper on your findings in which you accomplish the following: 1. Summarize the high risk-nutritional behaviors practiced among two or three different cultures. 2. Discuss the historical perspectives and belief systems of these cultures that influe...

If health care practitioners cannot communicate to the patients in their language, how important is it to find a translator? Whose problem is it, the health care provider's or the patient's? Why?

From your readings in Chapter 4, choose one of the organizational systems such as social, ethical, religious, spiritual, educational, ecological/environmental, political, economic, technological, and legal systems. Discuss how this organizational system can prepare you to care for individuals from other cultures.