Culture
Culturally responsive end life care can be universal. It can be accessed by all the patients found in the US. The healthcare providers and systems have a responsibility of first studying their patients’ populations. Through this, they will be able to strive and collaborate with other professionals to engage with these populations on their cultural terms. In considering and respecting the cultural diversity in the end-of-life variety of organizations are highlighted their importance. They include national, clinical, and governmental. As a result, they have all contributed to advancing illness care to attain a quality health care system.
We get to culturally responsive end life care by focusing on some more efforts beyond the bedside. In this, acknowledgments are made on the death and dying in society, resulting in stronger collaborations between the community individuals. Achievement of this is approached the health system establishing engagement with the surrounding people. Through this, health care organizations can accomplish their goal of quality improvement. It addresses the prospective and values concerning the community adjacent to be made in the medical center. The ABCDE cultural assessment model displays a variety of cultural assessment (Boucher, 2016). They include the health care system used to engage its environmental community on the topics concerning the end of life and advanced illness.
Interprofessional education plays a major role in the achievement of the culturally responsive end of life care. It embraces cultural and individual differences, which features the patients, population, and the health care group in terms of competency (Millberg et al., 2016). Through interprofessional education, health care facilities can recognize the importance of collaboration. This is between the disciplines which are made to take care of the patients encompassing those taking end-life-care. Health care providers are required to know the patient’s and families’ perspectives on death and dying, health, palliate services, among others. It enables them to provide effective delivery of end-life care.
Improvement made in end-of-life care in the US has been demonstrated as a challenge. This is owing to the advanced made technology and training. All this is made to focus on the curve when chances for survival are poor. The palliative care delivery system requires to be culturally integrative and multidisciplinary. This is because there is a broad range of patients who are suffering from a serious illness. Another challenge is the broader cultural integration in the United States. It is demonstrated using the current and projected census data notes where there is the continued development of a particular population. These are the Hispanics and Asians in the United States.
Lucy and Paul Kalanithi navigated through their personal difficult time in various ways, making it worth living when facing death. During the early times of Paul’s illness, they agreed to have a loud conversation. They involved themselves in making the will and completing their advance directives, which was later displayed as an act of love. Lucy and Paul had a good understanding and accepting the diagnosis offered (TED, 2017). They knew that death is part of life where they realize that Paul was left with a few years or weeks to live. The information that Lucy and Paul shared immensely helped in making big decisions. They displayed that living means that one has to accept suffering.
References
Boucher, A. N. (2016). Direct Engagement With Communities and Interprofessional Learning to Factor Culture Into End-of-Life Health Care Delivery.
Millberg, A., Torres, S., & Agard, P. (2016). Health Care Professionals’ Understandings of Cross-Cultural Interaction in End-of-Life Care: A Focus Group Study.
TED. (2017). What makes life worth living in the face of death| Lucy Kalanithi. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/U5-yBjKKicA