CULTURE, Well being AND SOCIETY
Along with it therapeutic relationship also get develop between a health care provider and a patient.
In order to provide culturally accepted, competent and safe care to the patients belong to diverse cultural backgrounds health care providers should be aware about patient’s cultural views, perspectives and concerns. It helps in thorough assessment of patient’s views and believes to plan the care accordingly.
To provide transcultural care to patient, I developed a tool contains different questionnaires to assess patient’s cultural and social aspects. Before exploring the patient’s according to the cultural tool, I introduced myself and explained the patient about the purpose of tool that helped me to build therapeutic relationship with the patient.
Communication is the important and basic component of transcultural tool which helped me to understand patient’s communication pattern as it guides a health care provider to use communication skills and language according to the patient’s level and preference. Along with, it helps us to explore patient’s social and cultural believes about marriages.
Environmental control is a serious component through which patient’s perception about health and illness is assessed.
Overall, cultural assessment tool is very effective to see patient in broader aspect by assessing his culture, values, believes, customs and practices. It helps the health care provider to counsel the patient for unsafe practices.
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