Cross-Cultural Healthcare

[Name of the institute]Cross-Cultural Healthcare

Describe how Christy can handle the situation better the next time she encounters a Romani patient

There are a number of ways and options that can help Christy in handling not only Romani patients but also any patient who belongs to any culture and any part of the world. Before adopting any strategy or any method to deal with culturally diverse patients the first and the most important thing that the nurses should do is to inform and aware their own selves that they are dealing with patients who belong to different culture (Meyer, 2006). When they do that, they automatically adjust themselves, their beliefs, their attitude and their way of handling patients. It seems impossible for a nurse to get awareness about the culture, tradition, language of all the cultures. But, there are few things that can be done to deal with patients who belong to different culture. Following generic strategies can be adopted by Christy to deal with Romani patients:

A nurse should pay respect to the patients no matter to which culture they belong to. The case suggests that Christy was shocked by different practices of the Romani patients. This should not be the reaction of a nurse. Instead of getting irritated by the difference of culture Christy should understand that they are different people and belong to different culture and they would act and react differently. She should pay respect to them (Cross, 2009).

Another Strategy that can be suggested to Christy is that she should try to extract the values, beliefs and attitude from the way they behave. This implies that while communicating verbally and non-verbally a nurse should make an attempt to gauge what they actually want (Cross, 2009).

Being flexible is also one of the most indispensible characteristics to be qualified as cultural ...