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WEEK2 DQ2 Diversity among individuals, as well as cultures, provides a challenge for nurses when it comes to delivering meaningful health promotion and illness prevention-based education. How do teaching principles, varied learning styles (for both nurses and patients), and teaching methodologies impact the approach to education? How do health care providers overcome differing points of view regarding health promotion and disease prevention? Provide an example. We live in a society with a changing demographics and economics society with very diverse cultural beliefs, values, and practices and these are challenges healthcare professional should overcome to provide best patient care. Healthcare worker should consider cultural diversity a priority. In the article, Many Faces: Addressing diversity in health Care, the American Nurses Association (ANA, 2013) defines diversity as “something different to each and every person”. Healthcare providers must understand that addressing cultural diversity goes beyond knowing the values, beliefs, practices and customs of various cultural group such as African American, Asians, Hispanics, Native American, and Pacific Island. Nurses being educators, should develop good teaching principles such as fairness, cultural awareness, language or any bias just to name a few. Patients and the community commonly know that nurses are trained and licensed healthcare providers who care for the sick and they expect the nurses to provide them with teaching materials and tools that will enable them to care for themselves and prevent diseases for a better well-being. For an effective teaching, nurses and other healthcare providers must develop learnings styles and teaching methodologies that meet the needs of any specific patient. Assessing each patient learning styles, level, and readiness to learn will be the first step to cross to ensure individualized outcome. For example, if a patient is a visual learner, provide him with videos, graphics, pictures, and demonstrations. These tools will motivate learning. As healthcare providers, the first thing to do is to build a trusted relationship between us and our patients, their families or caregivers. Fairness and justice should be applied to all patients because they are equal to us and should all receive the best care. We must be culturally competent to provide appropriate, quality patient care while reinforcing health promotion and disease prevention. Let’s take an example of a female muslin who presents to the hospital; this patient requests for female staff only and that decisions cannot be taken in the absence of her husband. To meet this patient’s needs and to encourage compliance, we should advocate for her to promote comfort, recovery, well-being, and give room for effective teaching and learning. Reference American Nurses Association, (2013). Many faces: Addressing diversity in health care. Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Volume82003/No1Jan2003/AddressingDiversityinHealt hCare.aspxThank

Cultural diversity is something that can be enlightening and challenging in the nursing profession. It is vital to the nursing profession that we remain non-biased and culturally sensitive to be effective educators and produce positive outcomes. The challenges include language barriers, social habits, cultural and religious practices, socioeconomic state, and fear of discrimination. Teaching principles for nurses must remain the same for all of our patients. We must provide then with the education and resources to prevent, maintain, or improve their health. This should be equal for every patient, every ethnicity and cultural background. We must advocate for our patients and demand the resources and supplies needed for proper education are available and accurate. Learning styles and teaching methodologies can vary from nurse to nurse and patient to patient. It is important for nurses to assess the patient need level. This will ensure reinforcement education is being provided and new education is being delivered in the best route for the patient to learn. This process should include families and caregivers. This should begin when first contact is made with the patient and family. As a health care provider we need to be sensitive to our patients. We need to set our own bias and beliefs aside and provide the patient with what they need to be successful in their health. It is our obligation to not discriminate or provide a lower level of service to patients that may be culturally different. We are not the say so on what is normal and what is not. Everyone's normal is different and we must acknowledge and accept that to be able to provide excellent and effective care. Health promotion and prevention is our goal and that can only be attained by encouragement, knowledge sharing, and proficient care. Cultural sensitivity must be a priority in or to achieve health promotion and prevention. For example, a new mother that has just delivered her baby is of Mixtecan Hispanic decent. She delivers her baby and placed it in the bassinet.She does not comfort baby when it cries, she feeds and changes it when necessary, she does not hold it for long periods of time, and the baby is left in the bassinet when feeding and changing is completed. This is a cultural practice performed by the majority of Mixtec population. We as nurses need to be culturally sensitive to the practices and beliefs of our patients as long as it does not bring harm. We cannot judge her for not treating the baby like "a new mother should", and we can only provide education to ensure safety and security for mother and new baby....