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Discussion Post
Understanding our own culture and how it impacts daily life and health can be difficult. What are your cultural beliefs? How do they affect your health? How can health care providers assess culture and its impact on the effectiveness of interventions?
Each person has his or her own personal history; that is, his or her collected experiences. Everything you have ever seen, heard, felt, learned, or experienced has lead to the development of this personal history. Factors that affect this history include your gender, race, age, ethnicity, culture, education, native language, and religion, to name a few. Collectively, these factors create the sum total of who you are as a person. Bias occurs when a person has a tendency towards a particular perspective or ideology (i.e. your personal history); after all, you see the world through your own eyes. To some extent, every person has a natural bias. It is important to understand our own culture and biases so we are better able to deliver unprejudiced culturally sensitive care. In this discussion, you will have the opportunity to determine some of your cultural influences.
In the professional nursing practice, nurses must provide unbiased care, even in situations where the person/s being treated have different backgrounds (language, religion, culture, ethnicity, etc.) than you. The first step in overcoming and minimizing personal biases is to recognize them.
Answer, for yourself, the cultural assessment questions. You do not need to turn in the answers. Answer the questions honestly and to the best of your ability, noting that there are no right or wrong answers.
Post at least 3 responses from answering the questions that you learned about your own culture that surprised you or that you were not aware was part of a cultural belief.
1) Name one way you think your cultural beliefs affect your own health. Your example can be either a positive and/or negative effect.
2) Give an example of a culturally appropriate health promotion and disease and injury prevention intervention. Explain what makes it culturally appropriate. You can use yourself as an example.
Your original post should consist of complete sentences.
My family is primarily from Ireland. We immigrated to America over 100 years ago. We speak the English Language. We grew up poor and medical care was not a large part of our dynamic unless we were seriously ill. I believe in holistic medicine and try to remain as natural as possible with everything that I put into my body. I believe in exercise and mental health care over prescribing medications to fix problems.