ESSAY: Spirituality in Health Care

Different cultural groups have unique beliefs and attitudes about health promotion and spirituality. It is important for a nurse practitioner to understand and adapt to those cultural and spiritual beliefs when educating patients.

Write a 750-1,000 word essay defining the AGACNP role of assessing the health and wellness of a specific patient population. Your essay should include three to five peer-reviewed sources.

A patient population can be a group of patients with the same chronic disease, same ethnicity, from the same community, or any other defined specific group.

Your essay should cover the following:

1. Establish how the specific patient population views chronic diseases and the maintenance of wellness.
2. Explain the cultural factors that may affect the attitudes of patients and families towards health promotion and maintenance.
3. Evaluate how your own personal worldview influences your attitudes and beliefs towards health maintenance of this patient population.
4. Evaluate how cultural bias may result in very different health-related preferences and perceptions.

You are required to cite three to five sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and nursing content.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

ANSWER

Spirituality in Health Care

            In today’s global society, cultural and spiritual competence is necessary to excel in nursing care. People are now traveling like never before, and nurses are connecting to patients through the Internet (Thompson, 2014). ‘Medical tourism’ is now a common concept. Therefore, individualizing the care patients receive from nurses is dependent on a thorough acknowledgment and understanding of the cultural identification and spiritual background of a person. These factors show the need for nursing practitioners to understand and determine cultural and spiritual differences existing between them and the patients (Büssing et al., 2015). Health providers, within the healthcare setting, should strive to exhibit cultural competence to be able to deliver the necessary healthcare services, which meet the social, cultural, and religious needs of patients as well as those of their families. Of focus, therefore, is a patient population battling the same chronic disease where the assessment is directed at their health and wellness by considering their cultural and spiritual beliefs.            For the patient population confronted with similar chronic diseases, culture, and spirituality influences how they view their condition. For instance, their respect for…