Patient Care

Culture

learned knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, worldview and family and gender roles acquired by a relatively large group of people in the course of generations

Influence on Health care

A person cultural background influence how they; understand the concepts of health and illness, express pain and discomfort, seek help for their symptoms or distress, rely on family members

Health Disparity

Differences in incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of disease and other adverse health conditions that exist among specific population groups.

Healthcare Disparity

Healthcare disparity exists when persons of different races, ethnic groups, and cultures do not receive equal health care, and illness occurs disproportionately from one group to the other.

Cultural Diversity

race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, gender, ability/disability etc.

Cultural Sensitivity

Knowing that cultural differences as well as similarities exist without assigning a right/ wrong value to those cultural differences.

Cultural Competency

Ability of health care providers and systems to care for patients with diverse values, beliefs, and behaviors in a manner that meets their social, cultural, and linguistic needs to increase the quality of health care.

How to become culturally competent

self awareness, institute cultural knowledge, value diversity, be conscious of cultural dynamics, adapt healthcare delivery.

Cultural Self Awareness

To be culturally competent, the Radiologic Technologists must have greater awareness of their own cultural beliefs, thoughts, feelings and have greater responsiveness to the cultural beliefs of patient.

Stereotype

Can be a natural way of dealing with the unknown. an end point in which we have developed conventional, formulaic and oversimplified conceptions and opinions. We don’t take the time to see if that patient fits in that category. Can sometimes lead to disastrous results for the patient

Generalization

A beginning point in which we recognize a cultural pattern and then see if that patient fits the pattern

Linguistic Competency

Radiographers are governed by professional codes and standards that preclude discriminatory practices and provide for delivery of high quality patient care with disregard for cultural differences.

Cultural Humility

An approach that was developed as a lifelong process of self reflection and self critique due to the limitations of cultural competency.

Cultural humility

The healthcare workers bring into check the power imbalances that exist in the dynamics of healthcare worker patient communication by using patient focused interviewing and care

Cultural competency

Can be overwhelming with the complexities and dangers of stereotyping

Stereotype vs Generalizations

We often group people into categories based on social and other categories. The problem is that we overgeneralize the characteristics of those people and some of these evaluations are negative