Although Janine is empathetic and caring, she fails to make headway with Linda’s stress and is frustrated by Linda’s lack of follow-through. Janine neglects to thoroughly explore the role that poverty plays, both in Linda’s stress response and in her ability to pursue stress reduction in the way that someone with more resources might be able to. Linda does not have the luxury of time, and smoking provides her quick relief. Although Linda may want to stop smoking, it is unlikely that she has the time to devote to smoking-cessation classes. Janine might have Conclusion When working with patients from diverse backgrounds, healthcare professionals must be willing to continuously look at personal dimensions of diversity and at how those dimensions affect their worldview and their view of their patients. Thus, healthcare professionals enter the professional relationship with a solid base of self- knowledge and a continuous commitment to critical self- reflection. Healthcare professionals also enter into patient interactions with an open mind and curiosity regarding patient’s lived experience. Healthcare professionals do not pretend to know or understand each patient’s unique combination of facets of diversity and do not assume that the patient will behave or believe in any way based on those facets of diversity. In fact, the culturally humble healthcare professional “cultivate(s) openness to the other person by regulating one’s natural tendency to view one’s beliefs, values, and worldview as superior, indeed, the culturally humble healthcare professional strives to cultivate a growing awareness that one is inevitably limited in knowledge and understanding of patients’ backgrounds” (Hook et al., 2016, p. 152). This stance of openness and equality provides an environment for healthcare professionals to enter respectful and equitable partnerships with patients. Moreover, the culturally humble healthcare professional
wanted to work with Linda on some of the stressors in her life that require advocacy outside the office. For example, Linda’s inadequate diet may be the result of not being able to afford enough food. Janine could have explored this with Linda and helped Linda access various governmental and nonprofit programs to help her obtain sufficient food. Although Linda agreed to continue to work with Janine, she may have done so because she does not feel that she had an option. considers how the societal structures in the United States serve to oppress some individuals and groups while empowering other individuals and groups. Patients are affected by the inequality within the United States. They are affected by living in a society where racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, and discrimination based on a variety of other diverse identities, including disability and gender identity, are expressed in a multitude of ways; this discrimination obstructs access to resources and opportunities and impedes interpersonal relationships. The power imbalances within society and institutions and as experienced by patients require the culturally humble healthcare professional to take an active role in righting those imbalances. Cultural humility challenges healthcare professionals to ask difficult questions and encourages them not to reduce patients to a preconceived set of cultural norms that have been learned in trainings about diversity and difference (Foronda et al., 2016). Finally, the culturally humble healthcare professional will engage in lifelong learning that supports effective practice.
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CULTURAL HUMILITY FOR ALL HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS Self-Assessment Answers and Rationales
1. The correct answer is B. Rationale: Cultural humility is an ongoing process, which requires continual self-reflection and self-critique. Cultural humility is a prerequisite to cultural competency. 2. The correct answer is C. Rationale: The highest number of foreign-born people came from Mexico. They represented 25% of the population of foreign-born people by country of birth residing in the U.S.. There were 11,182,111 people belonging to this group. 3. The correct answer is A. Rationale: The highest poverty rates are experienced by Native American Indians, Alaska Natives, Black women, and Latinas. About one in four Alaska Native women live in poverty. 4. The correct answer is B. Rationale: The type of functional disability that has the highest percentage is mobility. The percentage of people with mobility disability is 13.7%.
5. The correct answer is D. Rationale: Oppression is a pervasive system. It has its foundation in history and is maintained via individual and institutional systematic discrimination, personal bias, bigotry, and social prejudice. Oppression leads to a condition of privilege for the person or the group that is the oppressor(s). 6. The correct answer is C. Rationale: Creation of vulnerabilities are created by the cumulative impact of the creation margins and living between cultures. Vulnerability is defined as a state of being exposed to and unprotected from health-damaging environments. 7. The correct answer is B. Rationale: Healthcare professionals often attempt to take the emphasis off race, class, gender, and other areas of difference by denying the effect these aspects of diversity have on patients’ (e.g., “The only race I know is the human race”), or by trying to show that they understand the patient’s experience because they, too, are a member of an oppressed group.
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