How can a professional nurse provide care for someone with different morals and values? In this paper, it will discuss how cultural competence may influence a patient and their families’ attitude when making end of life decisions. Coupled with, approaches for health care provider to become culturally sensitive to the patient in order to obtain and remain having a professional relationship with one another. From the article, “Cultural and Religious Aspects of Palliative Care” (2011) researcher discusses the differences between Latino and Cambodian people who were from Boston and the perceptive those individuals had when making end of life decisions. Steinberg (2011) found that the Latino group strongly believes that taking a client off life …show more content…
The six key elements Coolen (2012) discovered to enhance care to a patient is to be desirable, aware, knowledgeable, skilled, collaborative, and encounter with each individual providers come in contact with. This will allow the professional to provide the right kind of care to that patient without stereotyping. As people all across America travel throughout the United States people still value culture. To become knowledgeable about other cultures, nurses must be experienced and involved with the client. In spite of that, the nurse must also be able to assess, observe, and listen carefully to the patient’s needs during any assessment. This can avoid “fragmented care, inadequate or inappropriate symptom management, miscommunication with the patient and family, and a difficult and poor death for the patient” (Coolen, 2012, para. 2). In addition, he states that being aware of the patient’s perspective of health, suffering, religion, family role, and many more are important things to know when a nurse is giving care (Coolen, 2012). All of these can come up when making critical decisions that involve someone’s life or health. Health care provider should to take into consideration that the client has the right to refuse treatment based on ones individual cultural