The Purnell Model - Nursing in culture course. PDF

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Dayra Guevara 05/12/2020 Professor Milien The Purnell Model The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence is an organized scheme that helps healthcare providers to learn about the different characteristics and concepts of cultures. The model discusses 20 major assumptions in which this model is based on. Two of the assumptions that this model makes are that all healthcare professionals need to have a similar understanding in regard to culture diversity and that one culture is not better than another culture, they just differ. By making this assumption, it can almost guarantee that the same culturally competent health care will be provided universally. This model focuses on sharing the concepts of global society, family, person and health (Debiasi, & Selleck, 2017).

An important assumption that the Purnell model discusses is that most of all cultures have similar core beliefs, they just differ in the way they execute them. At the end of the day, culture plays a huge part in the way individuals want to approach their health. The concept of illnesses and how pain is perceived and expressed may differ. By following the Purnell model, healthcare providers can reduce the disparities and predispositions that can come from making bias assumptions from the patients they may come across. These assumptions would come off as stereotyping, racist or discriminating and they can all negatively affect patient outcomes.

The Purnell model helps health care workers to provide culturally competent health care because it helps to interconnect the many different characteristics of culture to provide culturally sensitive care. Using this model and its expectations, health care providers can use the same type of questions when providing their care to patients while being respectful to their cultural beliefs, values and practices (Mardis & Oberg, 2019). Once a patient is comfortable with their provider, they will feel more inclined to disclose their health troubles at hand. This helps to establish a therapeutic provider-patient relationship built on trust. When a patient is willing to participate

and put their part in their care, their compliance and health goal will most likely progress for the better or ultimately be achieved.

While following this model, in order for it work effectively and to provide culturally competent health care, caretakers must be able to sit back and reflect their own distinctive understanding of what culture is. That way, they have both cultural-general and culture-specific information to provide patient-centered and culturally sensitive care regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race or beliefs (Purnell, 2018). My favorite and final Purnell model assumption from the twenty that are mentioned in the textbook is that every patient encountered is a cultural encounter. I thought it was an ingenious way binding it all together. Every patient we encounter is an ongoing chance to constantly practice how to approach the different cultures we may come across. This helps caregivers to reflect and have awareness no matter the different race or culture.

The Purnell model is important across transcultural nursing. It can also be of big help and can be used across any member of the health care field. This model requires any caregiver to consider the many distinct characteristics of the patients they come may across and their views on their health care, illnesses and treatments. The overall goal of the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence is to provide skilled care while encouraging uniformity of cultural diversity.

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Debiasi, L. B., & Selleck, C. S. (2017). Cultural Competence Training for Primary Care Nurse Practitioners: An Intervention to Increase Culturally Competent Care. Mardis, M. A., & Oberg, D. (Eds.). (2019). Social Justice and Cultural Competency: Essential Readings for School Librarians. Purnell, L. (2018). A description of the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence. A journal of the Transcultural Nursing....