African American patient at my medical faculty
The cultural background comprises various aspects such as ethnic, race, use of a different linguistic, religion amidst other social-economic features, and values that aid shaping a person’s upbringing (Jackson et al., 2019). Also, the cultural context may be structured at the community, family, or company level. During the interview, I interacted with an African American patient at my medical faculty. The interaction enabled comprehension of a different cultural background.
The patient reported that various severe illnesses like chronic disorders are silent while others go undiagnosed due to factors such as cost and reluctant to visit medical practitioners. Also, causes of chronic disorders such as kidney dysfunction are associated with the optimal exposure rate of diabetes mellitus and hypertension diseases, which are contributing aspects to acute and chronic disorders. Hence, African Americans constitute thirty-five percent of the American populace possessing chronic illnesses. Despite the significant populace of African Americans who fail to seek medical intervention, various individuals find medical amenities. Additionally, the respective culture is worried about suffering from chronic illnesses, and thus, they are forced to seek medical facilities to avert and manage severe and chronic disorders.
Correspondingly, fear of various complications and suffering linked with chronic illnesses influences the interviewee’s medical decisions to continually visit the advanced medical profession for comprehensive health consultation and different medical treatments.
The relevant patient’s perception varies from my own because, despite the rising cases of chronic diseases like obesity and hypertension, White Americans are concerned with the increasing mortality rate resulting from uncontrolled alcohol intake, opioid overdose, and suicide cases.
There are various mechanisms for enhancing the provision of culturally expertise medical care. Such strategies include conducting a cultural competency self-analysis, strengthen interaction and linguistic barriers, directly involve a cross-cultural rapport with patients, and engaging in social networking, which extensively influences nurse’s supposed cultural expertise, cultural responsiveness and updating them on various cultural competency problems.