HLT324 (all weeks Discussions
and Assignments) Full Course
HLT324 week 1 dq 1 & dq 2
HLT324week 1 dq 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 1 dq 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 2 dq 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 2 dq 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
provider’s or the patient’s? Why?
HLT324 week 3 dq 1 & dq 2
HLT324 week 3 dq 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 3 dq 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 4 dq 1
Describe the spectrum
of death and dying rituals and practices. Why are death and dying rituals so
significant?
HLT324 week 4 dq 2
What death and dying
practices are contrary to your personal beliefs or chosen religious values? How
will you support a patient’s death and dying rituals and practices, and still
honor your own?
HLT324 week 5 dq 1 & dq 2
HLT324 week 5 dq 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 5 dq 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 Purnell’s
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. 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
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 your family 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 primary family goals (education,
marriage,etc.)?
3.
3. What is your
culture’s view on alternative lifestyles (living
together prior to marriage, domestic partnerships, single parenting, etc.)?
4.
4. What are your
family’s religious beliefs, andhavetheychanged over generations?
5.
5. What areyour
family’s spiritual beliefsaround death and dying?
6.
6. What are your
culture’s educationand occupational statuswithin
the family unit?
7.
7. What are your
culture’s 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.
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 Shanti’s 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
Patient’s
Name:____________________________________________________ Date:
________________________________________
Patient’s
Diagnosis:___________________________________________________________________________________________
|
Problems/Needs
(Include date.)
|
Goals
|
Interventions/Actions
|
Discipline/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.
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 t’ai 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
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
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