Question

Identify areas of potential conflict of values and customs for a nurse interacting with a family from a different cultural or ethnic group. Use references

Answer 1

The areas of potential conflict of values and customs for a nurse interacting with a family from a different cultural or ethnic group include the difference in views on what constitutes ‘good care’ due to different approaches towards care. Healthcare professionals’ regard good care as something based predominantly on a biomedical care model, whereas families’ consider good care was mainly inspired by a holistic life world-oriented approach. The differences arise in cases how to take care of a terminally ill patient i.e. the end of life care, the procedures of screening for diseases like breast cancer, where women of some community may not be comfortable, (Keer, 2015).