Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care

Description

Be prepared for the culturally rich and diverse world of healthcare!
This concise, easy-to-read handbook prepares you to relate to individuals from different cultures. Use it in class and clinical now and as a reference throughout your career.

The Purnell Model is your guide as you explore 34 different cultures and the issues that you need to be sensitive to…including cultural variations regarding personal space, dietary preferences, communication, symptom management, activities of daily living, and religious and health practices.

Key Features

· Discusses the Purnell Model’s 12 domains of Culturally Competent Care and examines how they apply to all ethnic groups.
· Highlights specific instructions, guidelines, tips, warnings, intervention strategies, and approaches.

New to this Edition

· NEW! Four brand-new chapters…Barriers to Culturally Competent Health Care, Nigerian, Polish, and Thai.
· REVISED & ENHANCED! Significantly revised chapters…Amercian Indian/Alaska Native and Asian Indian.
· NEW! Bibliography that lists the author’s research and reference sources.
· NEW! Assessment Application Checklist online at DavisPlus to help readers apply Purnell’s Model for Cultural Competence to clinical practice.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Diversity and Health Care
2. Purnell Model
3. Barriers to Culturally Competent Health Care
4. African American
5. American Indian/Alaskan Native
6. Amish
7. Appalachian
8. Arabic
9. Chinese
10. Cuban
11. European American
12. Filipino
13. German
14. Guatemalan
15. Haitian
16. Hindu
17. Hmong
18. Iranian
19. Japanese
20. Jewish
21. Korean
22. Mexican
23. Polish
24. Puerto Rican
25. Russian
26. Somali
27. Thai
28. Turkish
29. Vietnamese
Bibliography
Appendix
Bonus Chapters Online at DavisPlus
30. Bosnian
31. Brazilian
32. Egyptian
33. French Canadian
34. Greek
35. Irish
36. Italian
37. Nigerian