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Culture has a significant influence on the dying process. Please review Chapter 31: End-of-Life: A Practical Guide in your book and pick a culture that interests you. With your selected culture (this can include Veterans, or your personal culture), please describe how you as a nurse will incorporate, recognize, and address the patient's cultural belief about their dying process. Please include two of the below topics in your discussion response.
• Patient View
• Family Views
• Funeral and Burial Plans
• Their bereavement process.
First Response by Thursday midnight, 250 words
Use references from your required reading End of Life Care: A Practical Guide and scholarly literature
References are required: One from the course textbook. Other references from a peer-reviewed NURSING journal less than 5 years old. National professional, governmental, or educational organizations (.org, .gov, or.edu) be used as supplemental references.
Must use the textbook as Reference
Here’s the Required textbook
Required Readings:
Kinzbrunner, B. M. , & Policzer, J.S.(2011). End-of-life care: A practical guide (2nd ed.) McGraw Hill.
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: CULTURE
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The Significance of Culture on the Dying Process
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
CULTURE
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The Significance of Culture on the Dying Process
Just like most cultural groups, veterans' culture plays a fundamental role in their dying
process. As a nurse offering care to a dying veteran, it would be vital to incorporate a
combination of clinical and cultural aspects of patient care. Notably, this step can be successful
by understanding the culture's definition of health and illness, their perception of life processes,
and practices of handling dying patients. A significant strategy of incorporating, recognizing,
and addressing the cultural beliefs of veteran patients on their deathbeds will involve cultural
assessment (Kinzbrunner & Policzer, 2011). Cultural competence in end-of-life care considers
the traditions and spiritual beliefs of the patient that will guide their care during the dying
process.
Generally, veterans consider death as a natural, unavoidable process. This belief makes
them plan and prepay for their funeral early during their end-of-life care. Families of veterans
encourage their loved ones in the process of dying to make known their wishes (Manheim et
al., 2016). These families rarely experience the burden of arranging for fun...
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