TRANSCULTURAL NURSING

Should we consider the different cultures of people in relation to us nurses offering our services to mankind? Let us see.
Being a nurse means taking full responsibility and giving our all in different circumstances presented to you in life. No matter how hard or how difficult or easy the situation may be, you should accept it and take that choice as a challenge in life. In these different circumstances, we can never avoid that chance wherein we encounter a patient of different lifestyle and culture than that of ours. Even in our country we have different cultures an background. Wouldn’t it be hard when we are engrossed in what we should do and just forget how to adjust to different cultures and try to be sociable at the same time? In these instances we should therefore have in mind that how we treat and present ourselves to different patients of different culture plays a great role in the completion of our service to them.
In here comes transcultural nursing which merely is the situation where we nurses give our services to a patient of a different culture. If I were in a situation like that, it would have my own set of culture and it would be hard since I should be able to know the “what to do’s and what not to do’s” in relation to their cultures. I would really have a hard time adjusting to their set of likes and dislikes. This made me realize that in nursing, not only should you know what to do or how to help the patient, but you should also know how to socialize with your patient in respect to their culture. You have to be able to keep track so that you wouldn’t be able to do something that is accepted in our culture but may offend them in relation to their culture and beliefs. Being careful not only refers to medical terms but in trying to socialize to different cultures too. We should give much consideration to people of different upbringing since we are the nurses and we are the only ones who gives our services with all of our heart. This field is very important that even people give special training classes for the nurses to be able to meet all the needs of the people. This transcultural nursing as defined by an institution that it is a formal area of study and practice focused on comparative human-care differences and similarities of the beliefs, values and morals and patterned lifeways of cultures to provide culturally, congruent, meaningful, and beneficial health care to people. Typically, it is just about trying to go tot the different levels of people in where they are just to be able to meet their needs. It is actually a humanistic and scientific area of formal study and practice in a nursing which is focused upon differences and similarities among cultures with respect to human care, health illness based upon the peoples cultural values, beliefs and practices and to use this knowledge to provide cultural specific or culturally congruent nursing care to patients. Transcultural nursing should not be taken for granted. It is one of the most important components of being able to give what the customer needs and being able to meet what they need the most, our care.
It is so much important for nurses to be flexible in everything they do, especially in dealing with patients. We never will know what background our patients come from, so we should always be mindful or be aware of the different cultures there are and find ways to give proper and effective nursing care. We should ensure that the culture care needs of the people in the world will be met by nurses prepared in transcultural nursing. Cultural competency prepares healthcare professionals for various challenges. While there are times the clients/families expect us to intervene only to a certain limit, others fully rely on us for any medical intervention and decision-making.