The purpose of the culture paper is to identify a health issue that is common in the cultural group you selected. You need to explain to your reader how a nurse would help a patient from your identified culture with the identified health issue.
The introductory paragraph will explain to the reader who your cultural group is and what health condition you will be discussing.
Each body paragraph will be a summation of the articles you find.
The conclusion will be your explanation of how a nurse would help (intervention).
These resources have useful information about cultures that may be helpful in your paper.
Ethnomed: https://ethnomed.org/
This website has wonderful information about health conditions as they relate to culture as well as how some cultural aspects relate to health care.
Think Cultural Health
From the Office of Minority Health (OMH), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Think Cultural Health is an OMH initiative that provides health and health care professionals with information, continuing education opportunities, and resources to learn about and implement Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) and the National CLAS Standards. Explore other Think Cultural Health resources related to the National CLAS Standards: https://thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/resources/library
Health Policy Institute: https://hpi.georgetown.edu/cultural/#
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Culture and healthcare: When medicine and culture intersect: https://youtu.be/c0TquroTHxo
Cultures and Health: An Introduction: https://youtu.be/wp2SSH65Kl4
Teaching Assignment
As you are putting together your presentation, remember that you will be teaching other nurses how to help patients. You will not be teaching patients. If your assigned topic involves patient education, your presentation should include tips for nurses on how to teach patients.
Much of the information needed for this project is "background"; which you will find in text-based databases or books.
If you would like to include new techniques or practices, use the nursing journal databases.
Remember, all the databases will create APA citations for you.
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Texas Board of Nursing. (2021). Nursing practice act, nursing peer review & licensure compact: Texas occupations code. https://www.bon.texas.gov/pdfs/law_rules_pdfs/nursing_practice_act_pdfs/NPA2021.pdf
[Be sure to put this into hanging indent format once you paste it to your paper.]
Nurse(s) last name(s) v. Texas Board of Nursing. (date). Disciplinary action. Texas Board of Nursing. web address of the .pdf for the case
Ex:
Brown V. Texas Board of Nursing. (2023). Disciplinary action. Texas Board of Nursing. https://www.bon.texas.gov/discipline_and_complaints_disciplinary_action_0123456.asp.html
Date: use the date at the bottom of the .pdf document-when the nurse signed the final report
Web address: Go to the page with the list of cases. Hover over the case you want to cite. Right click. Select Copy link. Paste this into your citation.
Nurse's name v. Texas Board of Nursing (date).
Ex:
In Brown V. Texas Board of Nursing (2023), the nurse was found negligent.
In this paper, you are comparing the degree of severity of a health condition in American to the degree of severity in another country or around the world, presenting information about factors associated with the condition, and then explaining how nurses can help (based on the information presented in the paper). Sometimes helping involves educating the patient; sometimes helping requires being a patent advocate; sometimes helping just means educating yourself. Once you understand the problem, you can determine how to best help.
For this paper, you will need to find (I believe): 2 nursing texts, 3 nursing journal articles, and perhaps a professional website or two.
Text sources provide background information about a clinical condition or health issue. These kinds of sources help you better understand a condition and how you, the nurse, can help. These sources represent what is historically known about an issue. The nursing texts can include your textbook, but do not have to. For a second nursing text, try the Nursing Reference Center database. Click on the tab Finding Articles, drop down to Nursing Texts, then select Nursing Reference Center. When you find an article, be sure to email it to yourself with the APA 7 citation.
Journal articles are studies related to the health issue. These sources provide new information about an issue. What is the latest treatment, technique, or understanding of an issue or condition? In order to stay up to date on how to provide the best care for a patient, nurses need to regularly read journal studies. The best place to locate nursing journal articles is in the CINAHL database. Click on the tab Finding Articles, drop down to Nursing Journal Articles, then select CINAHL. When you find an article, be sure to email it to yourself with the APA 7 citation.
Professional websites include those that provide statistics that allow you to compare the rates of a disease or condition. For international health stats, I recommend the World Health Organization (who.int). For health stats from the US, try the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc.gov). To see how to site these source, click on the tab APA 7 and drop down to APA 7 Citations.
It may take years for the new information from a study to become part of the historical literature, so it is important to be familiar with both types of sources.
Ultimately, all nursing research is about determining the nurse's role in the helping the patient.
Here is a possible structure of the paper:
Introduction:
What is the health issue? How does this health issue impact people or countries or economies, etc.? How bad is it around the world vs. the US?
Body:
Share what was found in the text sources. What is the background of the issue?
Share what you learned from the journal studies. What was the objective of the study? How was the study conducted? What was learned from the study?
Conclusion:
Nursing interventions based on information presented. What can one nurse do independently to help a patient? All interventions must be a result of the information presented from research. Be specific. (A general statement that nurses should be 'educated' is meaningless. It would be better to say, "Nurses should educate themselves on the symptoms of this rare condition in order to avoid any possibility of misdiagnosis." Now you have explained the 'what' and the 'why' of the education.)
