Culture Centered 2
The healthcare industry is one extremely diverse and open to various cultures. Every person of a specific culture or not is in need of medical Helpance at one point as illnesses do not discriminate people based on Age, race, or ethnicity. As a nurse manager, embracing a culture-centered leadership goes a long way in the growing establishment and forming a peaceful and coherent working environment. Therefore, culture-centered leadership applies to both the patients and other healthcare professionals within the facility. As a manager, the primary approach to solving and enhancing a culturally competent healthcare community is allowing internationally recognized and widely spoken languages (Aggarwal, 2016).
Another culture-centered approach is ensuring that nurses working in the institution understand and are well-spoken in at least two diversely spoken languages. This approach will ensure that a culturally diverse patient population is comfortable with the service and can get a diagnosis, treatment explanation, and quality care from nurses within the facility. The nurses being able to understand the patients from different cultural backgrounds makes service delivery easy, and the quality of healthcare becomes assured (Roshanzadeh, 2020).
To apply cultural competence among the nursing staff as their nursing manager, I would employ each to embrace the functionalism cultural theory. This theory implies that every aspect of society, including different cultures, languages, and functions, works coherently for society’s survival. Hence it is up to the staff to understand different patients from a community of diverse cultures to ensure they offer the best services and allow the healthcare institution to grow (Rahnama, 2017). Through structural functionalism, the quality of services will increase, allowing for a healthy community. It is then everyone’s responsibility to ensure a healthy society through cultural competence.
References
Aggarwal, N. K., Cedeño Kryst, Guarnaccia, P., Kleinman, A., Lewis-Fernández Roberto. (2016). The meanings of cultural competence in mental health: an exploratory focus group study with patients, clinicians, and administrators. Springerplus, 5(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-2037-4
Rahnama, F., Mardani-Hamooleh, M., & Kouhnavard, M. (2017). Correlation between moral sensitivity and self-esteem in nursing personnel. Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine, 10, 16. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6150914/
Roshanzadeh, M., Vanaki, Z., & Sadooghiasl, A. (2020). Sensitivity in ethical decision-making: The experiences of nurse managers. Nursing ethics, 27(5), 1174–1186. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733019864146,https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/096973301
