Question

1. Describe how personal experiences influence workplace culture in nursing ?

Answer 1

Ans) Culture involves unconscious thoughts and actions that have a dramatic influence on health and illness.

- If culture is ignored, patients are at risk of not getting the support that they need or receive care that may do harm to them.
- All cultures have systems of health beliefs to explain what causes illness, how it can be cured or treated, and who should be involved in the process. The extent to which patients perceive patient education as having cultural relevance for them can have a profound effect on their reception to information provided and their willingness to use it.
- Cultural values determine how one will behave as a patient and what it means to be ill and especially to be a hospital patient. They affect decisions about a patient's treatment and who makes the decisions.