Culturally Competent Care Unit Reflection

Culturally Competent Care Unit Reflection

10/29/14

Active, responsible citizens are well-informed and apply knowledge and skills to improve the quality of their lives and communities.

As a group, as well as students, we all obtained this skill throughout this project. The entire objective of the unit was to understand that every culture has different customs that go along with it. As health professionals and as people we must respect these things in order to provide the best care possible. 

We demonstrated this skill in many ways. Primarily, we used this skill in researching our assigned cultures to learn more about them and be more informed about their customs. However, we also used this skill in communicating with each other. In my group for one, Jadin, Hayley, and I all have different styles of doing things. Hayley prefers to do things slow and the best she can. She did her voice comments several times over until she got them exactly right. I was not so nit-picky with my voice comments, however my research was precise and current so no wires were crossed with anyone viewing it. Jadin prefers to take things slower and make triple sure she has everything right before she began her voice comments. We had to learn to be patient with each other and realize that we all did things differently. 

Another culture I learned about was El Salvador. They are very family-oriented. They are much more open and friendly with the people around them than we are as a culture. Their food isn't much different but it is much more organic-based.

Finally, I also viewed a Voicethread on Italian culture. Their culture is very similar to ours, but they are also more open and friendly. Large families, large gatherings, tight-knit communities, everything is about having people close in the Italian culture. That is something I admire and I wish happened more in our culture. 

I really enjoyed this project and hope we get to do things like this again in the future. :)