Question

In your experience are there traditions, beliefs, customs or expectations within nursing that contribute to professional problems? Identify a professional nursing issue in your current practice that is exacerbated by an aspect of nursing culture. Briefly describe the professional nursing issue and the identified element of nursing culture. Then explain how that aspect of nursing culture contributes to the problem.

Answer 1

Nurses have to deal with people from different cultures, religions, traditions, and customs. The nurse has to care for different people based on individual needs. When treating the patient, certain religious groups refuse treatment that arises in issues with nursing. Some may refuse blood transfusion or life-saving treatment. This will create a critical situation for nurses to handle. Nurses may struggle to handle these types of situations and need to better understand these patients to treat them accordingly. According to the nursing culture, the nurse should treat all the patients equally and do the best possible treatment for the well-being of the patient. So the nurse are placed in a situation of an ethical dilemma. The nurse should communicate with the patient and make treatment plans with the right decision. The importance of the treatment and rights of the patient's beliefs are to be considered, so the patients can make the right decision. Thus the problem with religion, customs, and beliefs increased by the aspect of nursing culture.