Question

After reviewing the differences between western culture and indigenous ways of knowing, reflect on how a deeper understanding of these concepts could potentially support your nursing practice and cultural competency.

Answer 1

Indigenous cultures way of thinking it is a culturally and spiritually important one.. priority for economically and environmentally important for indigenous people..Their generation developed timely and reliable knowledge and it's needs..we can call this as native science..there will be methodology behind it..

Western culture has a technology important and has quantitative methodology..but it lacks long term data and experience for local practice..

Effective communication is important when we dealing with different cultures patient..if there is cultural diversity it make miscommunication and misunderstanding it can make serious impact on quality of care and it prevent safety.. communication skills and intercultural competence needs in clinical setting to know particular about particular patient interest.. effective use of language and nurse patient relationship can provide good nursing practice.

Difference between western culture and indigenous cultures will be vary in decision making process when they get admitted..western culture Patient treatment concern will be immediate decision making process among them ..but in indigenous cultures will take long time in decision making process with the wide community or group..so it is important for nursing practice cross cultural communication interaction..if it fail there will be miscommunication,it will impact Patient health outcomes..so skills empower nurses for therapeutic relationship it will improve patient safety and communication..