IMPACT OF CULTURE ON PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

Impact of Culture on Professional Practice



Impact of Culture on Professional Practice

Introduction

Human globalisation as a phenomenon has lead to a creation of a new kind of social world, one which is inclined towards the diversity of cultures. This cultural diversity includes different sets of religions, values, ethical implications, legal implications, and beliefs, level of services, communication styles, languages, and different set of ages which are revolving today with in a single society and has affected different aspects of life both personally and professionally (Button and Green, 2005). Moreover, professionally it has had a great impact, because previously one only had to learn within the perspective of his or her own culture and values, but now has to consider various other aspects and learn about dealing with a multiplicity of peoples who now reside in a contemporary social community.

Health care service is one of the most essential of social organisations and with this change of a cultural diversity in today's environment, has lead to a need for a more appropriate and relevant care to the multiplicity of patients, and these nursing care today which are to be considered appropriate demands for a set of new skills which could ensure these new demands to be met and therefore a whole new understanding of the basic concepts and knowledge is required (Scott, Mannion, Davies and Marshall, 2003). In order to this well, requires for one of the greatest challenges which faces nursing as a profession.

Within any religion which is in denomination has a high level of variations in it and thus it requires a basis for planning care with the ability to question the individual patients about the practices and preferences which are important to them (Burchella, Dysona and Reesa, 2002). As for different religions can have a both impact on the profession as a practice and for a patient's acceptability of different cares which could be provided to him and considered to be appropriate for him. For example, some religious groups have a very different perceptions of health care and illness, for some do not believe in the concept of birth control and often lack the practices which are used for prevention for certain diseases like prenatal care and immunisations, and they might also usually prefer and use a variety of non traditional and traditional health care service providers (Horton, Tschudin and Forget, 2007). Therefore if a nurse is able to understand the religiocultural belief system of the certain minorities' religions sect, they can effectively meet the needs of these patients (Button and Green, 2005).

This intense globalisation of this modern world where nearly everybody is a exile or an immigrant or a refugee or a tourist who moves from one place to another, and as a consequence to this, it has lead to an increasing variability in cultures in many communities within a country (Johnson, Williams, Wavell and Baxter, 2004). England is that country which is known for a continued and changing tradition ...