The Relationship between Cultural Competence and Perceptions of Individualized Nursing Care among Expatriate Nurses in the Saudi Arabian Healthcare System
Review of Literature**
This review includes literature to support the concepts that support your problem. This is the section of a proposal that identifies what is known and what the scientific gaps are in your problem area. This is a state of the science paper.
– The purpose of this paper is to examine The Relationship between Cultural Competence and Perceptions of Individualized Nursing Care among Expatriate Nurses in the Saudi Arabian Healthcare System as a topic of interest to discuss in a formal paper. Conduct a systematic literature review critically appraising the selected studies to identified problems and organize their literature findings to determine the impact their findings might have on clinical practice, the nursing profession and or the healthcare system. ** Include concepts definitions cultural competence and perceptions of individualized nursing care (nursing definitions) and how these two concepts link to each other. – Using studies that include referencing not more 5 years old in APA format (attached) but you can check other papers if needed.
– Should discuss in depth the advantages and disadvantage of each concept from the literature review. Also, study location, setting, design, sample, aims, variables, tool, method, results, and recommendations and critique are important to include.
**Suggested structure for the paper:
Introduction (includes concepts definitions, background, problem and aim and link between the two concepts) I will provide chapter one of the proposal
Healthcare System Overview of Saudi Arabia (short, references provided)
Structure of Healthcare Delivery System (short, references provided)
Challenge for Healthcare System: Composition of the Nursing Staff (short, provided)
Nursing Status in Saudi Arabia (short, provided)
Cultural Competence – independent variable for the study (see references)
Individualized nursing care dependent variable (see references)
Conclusion
** Key Terms to use in the paper consist with terms:
Nurses, expatriate nurses, patients, Saudi patient, patient-centered care, culturally competent care, culturally insensitive nursing care, individualized nursing care, perceptions in individualized care, healthcare, cultural competence (not limited).
Always cultural competence comes first then individualized care in the paper
** Points to be used in the paper but paraphrase them first please:
– Individualization is considered a particularly important feature of nursing care. The literature suggest that individualized care requires some background knowledge of the patient, which nurses use to devise care plans that treat each patient as unique. An important aspect of successfully practicing patient-centered care is the cultural competence. More specifically, cultural competence can be seen as a necessary set of skills for nurses to attain in order to render effective patient-centered care. To deliver patient-centered care, nurses are encouraged to move forward in their process of becoming culturally competent in providing, culturally individualized competent care.
– To provide culturally sensitive patient-centered care, nurses should treat each patient as an individual, recognizing and respecting his or her beliefs, values and care seeking behaviors.
– Cultural proficiency for an expatriate nurse may be problematic on two points: the nurse may not be aware of the cultural aspects of the patient, and the patient may not recognize the role of the nurse in health-care. This could lead to disparities in delivery of healthcare by the nurse, and disparities in healthcare access by the patient. Regardless of cultural issues, at the basic level of provision of healthcare from professional to patient, quality of care issues often are problematic. Healthcare delivery involves a highly complex process, involving issues of diagnostics, administration processes, and everything in between. These processes need to be coordinated in order to have the system function efficiently. The main point of healthcare is to deliver high quality healthcare to the patient. When some element of the healthcare delivery process is lacking or running at a suboptimal level, the whole system is compromised. In the case of the expatriate nurses, the real impact of language and communication barriers to the provision of quality services is in fact a comprising factor of optimal healthcare delivery.
– Nurses are considered to be the cornerstone of the health team, ensuring the continuity of health care provision and contributing almost 80% of the total care received by the individual. Therefore, a nursing cadre with the requisite skills and attitudes is essential to effective delivery of the health system. (Saudisation of the nursing workforce: Reality and Myths about planning Nurse Training in Saudi Arabia article)