Hlt324 (all weeks discussions and assignments) full course
- 1. HLT324 (all weeks Discussions and Assignments) Full Course https://homeworklance.com/downloads/hlt324-all-weeks-discussions-and-assignments-full-course/ HLT324 (all weeks Discussions and Assignments) Full Course HLT324 week 1 dq 1 & dq 2 HLT324week 1dq 1 Describe the concept of variant characteristics of culture. Which characteristics can change and which cannot? Is equality for variant cultures typically supported in the United States? Provide examples to support your statement. HLT324 week 1dq 2 How does cultural competency occur? What can one do to become culturally aware? Describe an effective approach to using The Purnell Model when working with subcultures (immigration status, gender, political beliefs, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, educational status, etc.). HLT324 week 2 dq 1 & dq 2 HLT324 week 2dq 1 From your readings, which cultural difference would be most challenging for you to understand? Why? How would you prepare to work with individuals from this culture in order to respect their culture? HLT324 week 2dq 2 If health care practitioners cannot communicate to the patients in their language, how important is it to find a translator? Whose problem is it, the health care providers or the patients? Why? HLT324 week 3 dq 1 & dq 2 HLT324 week 3dq 1 From the 10 select cultural groups you selected for the High-Risk Nutritional Practices assignment, briefly explain an unusual high-risk practice and how it impacts your role as a medical professional. HLT324 week 3dq 2 What factors influencing nutritional practices in the United States could be changed to improve health? HLT324 week 4 dq 1 & dq 2 HLT324 week 4dq 1 Describe the spectrum of death and dying rituals and practices. Why are death and dying rituals so significant?
- 2. HLT324 week 4dq 2 What death and dying practices are contrary to your personal beliefs or chosen religious values? How will you support a patients death and dying rituals and practices, and still honor your own? HLT324 week 5 dq 1 & dq 2 HLT324 week 5dq 1 If you were caring for a child who could be cured if given blood transfusions, but whose parents refused permission to give the transfusions due to religious beliefs, what would you do? HLT324 week 5dq 2 Some parents are refraining from giving certain immunizations to their children. How will this affect diseases in the United States in the future? How as medical professionals can we embrace these nontraditional practices? HLT324 week 1 Allied Health Community Media Scenario Assignment Details: The ability to communicate, interact with different cultures, and think critically is essential in the medical field. The interactive media scenario you will use for this assignment illustrates a situation that could easily arise when working in health care. To complete this assignment: Go to the Allied Health Community media link: http://lc.gcumedia.com/hlt307v/allied-health-community/allied-health- community-v1.1.html Click Enter to begin. Click on the box that says SCENARIOS. Click on View Scenario for the Critical Decision Making for Providers. Examine how the described problem might happen in your facility and the impact it could have. Work through this situation by examining allof the choices presented in the scenario. When you get to the end of the scenarios, one scenario will have the word Transcultural on the top right corner. Click on Transcultural. Read the scenario and answer the four questions that are provided. While APA format is not required for this assignment, solid academic writing is expected and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide located in the Student Success Center. You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. HLT324 week 1 Diversity in Health Care Essay Benchmark Assignment Details: Diversity has a significant influence on health care. Studying transcultural health care helps health professionals understand different cultures in order to provide holistic and individualized health care. Review the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence, including the theory, framework and 12 domains. Write 750-1,000 word paper exploring the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence. Include the following: 1. 1. Explain the theory and organizational framework of the Purnell Model, and discuss its relevance to transcultural health care. 2. 2. Describe Purnells 12 domains of culture, and assess how each of these domains plays an active role in the diversity of health care in your specific field.
- 3. 3. 3. Discuss how this model can be applied when working with different cultures in order to become a more culturally competent health care provider. 4. 4. Cite at least three references, including the course textbook. Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. HLT324 week 2 Assignment Details: It is important to identify and understand your own family culture in order to be able to understand and respect other cultures. Interview a family member, and an individual from another culture with which you are unfamiliar. Some examples of an individual from another culture to consider for the assignment include a neighbor, coworker, patient, or friend. Please inform the individuals of the purpose of this assignment and make sure you receive their consent. Interviews: Review the Family Interview template prior to the interview. Additional space is designated on the template for you to create three additional questions to ask both interviewees (family member and person from another culture). Additional questions should be relevant to the readings or discussion and should provide value to the interview by helping to understand culture. Some of the questions may include: 1. 1. Family beliefs: Have they changed over generations? 2. 2. Educational and occupational status in the culture and in the family 3. 3. Communication methods: verbal and nonverbal 4. 4. Current family goals/priorities 5. 5. Family member roles and organizational systems 6. 6. Spiritual beliefs: current practice and death and dying 7. 7. Alternative lifestyles 8. 8. Work attitudes and structure Written Paper: Using the Family Interview template, interview your designated family member and the person from another culture. Be sure to write your responses in a way that will assist you in writing your paper. After the interview is completed, write a paper of 750-1,000 words that includes the following: 1. 1. An introductory paragraph with the reasons for selecting the interviewees. 2. 2. A summary of the responses from the interview template gathered from the interviewees. 3. 3. A comparison and contrast of your findings between the two interviewees. 4. 4. A reflective concluding paragraph on how family roles affect the cultural domains and relationships for each individual. General Requirements: Submit both the completed Family Interview template and the written paper to the instructor. Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. Family Interview
- 4. HLT-324V: Transcultural Health Care College of Nursing and Health Care Professions When conducting the Family Interview, please make sure that you inform the individual you choose to interview that you will be using their responses in a compare and contrast cultural paper for HLT-324V. It is important that people give you approval to use their personal stories prior to doing so. Please use this template and the following questions below when conducting your interviews. In addition to these questions, you are required to ask another three questions, which you are to include on this template. Please submit this template with your paper by the end of Module 2. 1. 1. What are yourfamily roles/gender roles?How are they the same as or different fromthose traditionally practiced by your culture (who is the head of the household, who makes decisions, how are decisions made, etc.)? 2. 2. What does your culture and family see as primaryfamily goals(education, marriage,etc.)? 3. 3. What is your cultures view onalternative lifestyles(living together prior to marriage, domestic partnerships, single parenting, etc.)? 4. 4. What are your familys religious beliefs, andhavetheychanged over generations? 5. 5. What areyour familysspiritual beliefsaround death and dying? 6. 6. What are your cultureseducationand occupational statuswithin the family unit? 7. 7. What are your cultures preferredcommunicationmethods(verbal and nonverbal)? 8. 8. Additional question: 9. 9. Additional question: 10. 10. Additional question: HLT324 week 3 Assignment Details: Examine the high-risk nutritional behaviors associated with different cultures. Identify the historical perspectives, belief systems, and other factors associated with these high-risk nutritional behaviors for each culture. Write a 1,500- 3,000 word paper on your findings in which you accomplish the following: 1. Summarize the high risk-nutritional behaviors practiced among 10 different cultures. 2. Discuss the historical perspectives and belief systems of these cultures that influence the high-risk nutritional behaviors. 3. Explore additional influencing factors on high-risk behaviors for each culture. These may include, but are not limited to (a) education, (b) family roles, (c) spiritual beliefs, (d) health care practices, and (e) drug and alcohol use. This paper requires minimum of six outside resources in addition to the textbook, properly documented using APA guidelines. Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. HLT324 week 4 Assignment Details: Allied health professionals are confronted with different death and dying practices. An effective allied health professional recognizes the importance of understanding different cultural practices, and learns how to evaluate the death, dying, and spiritual beliefs and practices across the cultures.
- 5. Read the two specified case histories and choose one for this assignment. Chapter 4, Stories of Abby: An Ojibwa Journey and Chapter 14, Stories of Shanti: Culture and Karma, by Gelfland, Raspa, and Sherylyn, from End-of-Life Stories: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries (2005), available in the GCU Library: http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/grandcanyon/Doc?id=10265487 Identify your role as a health care professional in supporting Abby or Shantis dying rituals, and in creating strategies for displaying respect while still providing quality care. Integrate your strategies as you develop a care plan describing how you would approach the situation and care for the patient. Review the Care Plan template prior to beginning. Include the following in your care plan: Communication: family and patient Treatment options that align with the specific culture Education: family and patient Family roles in the process Spiritual beliefs Barriers Cultural responses Any additional components that you feel would need to be addressed (from your perspective as a health care professional) Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Care Plan HLT-324V: Transcultural Health Care Patients Name:____________________________________________________ Date: ________________________________________ Patients Diagnosis:_____________________________________________________________________________________ ______ Problems/Needs (Include date.) GoalsInterventions/ActionsDiscipline/PersonResponsible Outcome/Comments (Initialanddate.) HLT324 week 5 Assignment Details: Research different popular nontraditional health care practices. Write a 1,000-1,200 word paper exploring nontraditional health care practices and include the following: 1. Describe nontraditional health care practices in different cultures. Compare at least three cultures. 2. Explain how these practices affect wellness and prevention in different cultures. 3. Identify the nontraditional health care options in your areas, and identify the number of people choosing to use them over traditional medical practices. Propose reasons why the number of people using nontraditional health care options is rising. Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
- 6. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. HLT324 week 5 quiz Which culture uses dry wood, plant roots, sida leaves, and herbs to treat diarrhea in children? Hindu Hmong German Which culture uses a traditional medical care system called hanbang, which focus on acupuncture, herbal medicines, and moxibustion therapy? Korean Arab Amish Which culture practices tai chi? Polish Cuban Chinese Which culture uses Morita therapy? Japanese Mexican Puerto Rican Which culture uses the root work system to identify and cure illnesses? African American German Haitian What culture uses teas with honey and spirits to sweat out a cold? German Polish Filipino As a health care provider, in which culture do you need to be aware of the hot and cold theory of disease when prescribing treatment and educating patients? African American Arab Mexican A strong belief in folk medicine is a traditional part of which culture? Appalachian African American German Which culture believed that drinking a mixture of an alcoholic drink and fish blood could cure alcoholism? African American Japanese Haitian
- 7. Filipino Which culture has stores called botanicas, which sell a variety of herbs, ointment, oils, and powders that relieve disease and bring luck? Cuban Polish German