Cultural Competency in mental health nursing

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Submit an evidence-based practice paper about cultural competency in mental health nursing. An evidence-based practice paper allows you to explore best practice and help improve client outcomes on a psychiatric unit. Your paper should describe how you, as a nurse, will include - or have included - cultural awareness in a client diagnosed with a mental illness. The person you describe could be someone in your clinical setting, someone you have worked with in the past, or a theoretical client.

Remember that culture can also include gender equality, sexual orientation, and other cultures besides race and religion - including cultures unique to one particular family. Your paper should be at least 3 pages (double-spaced, not including the title or reference pages) in APA Format and include:

  • Assessment: Discuss what you would assess in regard to a client's culture. For example, are there specific dietary requirements? Are schedule changes necessary to avoid conflicts with religious practices? Who is the spokesperson for the family? What would you assess?
  • Diagnosis: List any mental health nursing diagnoses this person has or may be at risk for. Include at least one cultural diagnosis.
  • Planning: What planning needs to be done to ensure the cultural and emotional safety of the client?
  • Implementation: What are interventions that would ensure the safety of your client in regard to culture? Include at least two interventions. For example, if your client has religious beliefs that affect the ability to take medications, what interventions would you create to ensure the client's safety? What can you do to make sure the client's cultural needs are met?
  • Evaluation: How will you evaluate whether your implementation was effective? Make sure the parameters are objective and measurable.
  • In your summary, discuss whether any completed interventions were successful. What could be done differently in the future? If the interventions have not yet been carried out, you might discuss some institutional changes that could be made to ensure cultural safety for all clients in that setting.

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Introduction
With societies comprising of culturally diverse individuals, it is quite difficult to arrive at
a universal way of determining the mental health of a patient. This is so since cultural diagnosis
of a patient is needed to be able to determine the best practices that will improve the outcome of
psychiatric treatment. In this paper, cultural awareness in a client who has been diagnosed with a
mental illness will be discussed. This is in an effort to be able to ensure that the best psychiatric
treatment is utilized to improve the mental health status of the client (Townsend, 2011).
Assessment
Different cultures all over the world tend to have varying beliefs as well as a way of life.
However, there are specific aspects of a given lifestyle that influences the mental state of an
individual. Therefore, aspects that would be assessed with regard to the patient's culture so as to
improve their outcome in a psychiatric unit will include dietary requirements as well as religious
practices the patient associates with as a result of belonging to a given culture.
To begin with, dietary requirements have a profound impact on the level of comfort one
will experience while in a stressful setup. This is attribu...


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